Asher Moses reports: A website that allows stalkers to look up the names and addresses attached to landline and mobile numbers is being investigated by the nation’s privacy and communications watchdogs. The reverse phone directory lookup service, ReverseAustralia.com, was created by an Australian systems architect living in San Francisco who would only reveal his first…
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St Kilda AFL captain Nick Riewoldt plans legal action against Channel 7
Anthony Dowsley and Ruth Lamperd report the latest in a scandal that seems to have started when a teenage girl obtained nude and semi-nude pictures of members of the St Kilda football team. A member of the team has stated that he took the pictures and that they were obtained from his laptop without his…
Mt: Vodafone assisting police over employee’s disclosure of information
Vodafone in a statement this afternoon confirmed that a former employee had violated its strict data privacy compliance requirements and disclosed information about the itemised bill of murder victim Christina Sammut to another person. “At no point in time did the former employee divulge information relating to the subscriber’s location,” it said. Christina Sammut was…
UK: Fingerprints for pupils under fire
Emily Heward reports: Schools fingerprinting pupils have come under fire as the EU demands they justify the controversial practice. A handful of Calderdale schools, including Todmorden High and Brighouse High, use the biometric technology, where scans of children’s thumbs are stored and linked to a canteen or library accounts. But the European Commission has hit…