Munir Kotadia reports: CommSec, the Commonwealth Bank’s stock trading arm, has agreed to pay a $55,000 to The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) after breaching the Spam Act during 2009. According to ACMA, CommSec customers complained that they had continued to receive commercial messages despite having withdrawn their consent. The watchdog “also identified that…
Category: Breaches
AU: VicRoads staff share private data
Peter Mickelburough reports: The personal details of 3.4 million Victorians continue to be abused by VicRoads staff despite a State Government bid to stamp out licensing fraud. Seven VicRoads workers have been sacked or resigned for improperly accessing or releasing information from the authority’s database in the past two years. Two other staff have been…
JM: Privacy breached: Flow clients rail against directory listings
Mark Titus reports: Subscribers to Flow’s telephone service are demanding explanations at the sudden appearance of their private information in the national telephone directory, produced annually by a third party. But they will have to wait at least a year before the problem can be rectified. The telephone directory, though distributed by LIME Jamaica/Cable and…
Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna’s campaign “pilfered” NDU alumni info – alumnus (updated)
A Notre Dame University alumnus, Gary Caruso, has taken to the Web to question how Notre Dame University Alumni Association records were obtained by Illinois Republican Gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna’s campaign. According to Caruso, McKenna is an alumnus of NDU and those alumni who were in his class have found themselves on the receiving end…