Mitchell Bingemann reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Telecommunications Ombudsman are conducting urgent investigations into the privacy practises of a Telstra subsidiary after it failed on multiple occasions to keep a Victim of Crime customer’s details from being exposed. The telco is being scrutinised by the two agencies after internal processes…
Category: Breaches
Immigration NZ rejects privacy judgement
Gill Bonnett reports: Immigration New Zealand has breached privacy laws by refusing to release information to immigrants, according to the Privacy Commission. But the immigration agency has rejected the commission’s recommendation to release the information. Immigration New Zealand says under the Immigration Amendment Bill (No 2), passed by Parliament last night the Privacy Act would…
Civil liberties gurus happy to invade the privacy of others
British journalist Catherine Bennett takes Julian Assange out to the woodshed over disclosure of personal information a commentary that begins: The collaboration has been a long time in coming, but so close is the current working relationship between WikiLeaks and the Daily Mail that it is becoming difficult to believe that the two organisations were ever at odds. Hardly any…
UK: Your crash details for sale: Police probe car insurance giants selling data to cold callers
Sean Poulter reports: Insurers were being probed by police last night over the illegal sale of customer data. The scam involves brokers passing the personal details of car accident victims to claims management companies. The ‘cash for crash’ firms then cold-call clients to tout an injury compensation service. Read more on Daily Mail.