Sarah Gerathy reports: Consumer rights advocates say ANZ bank employees may have breached privacy laws and the Trade Practices Act when they allegedly used Facebook to gather customers’ information. It is alleged that someone in the bank’s debt collection team secretly set up a fake Facebook profile. Using this false identity, they then befriended ANZ…
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Google faces German Street View data blunder deadline
Google has not handed over sensitive data requested by German authorities, despite a deadline of 26 May. Dr Johannes Caspar, the Information Commissioner for Hamburg, Germany, told BBC News that there was “no sign” of the requested hard disk The firm has until midnight to hand over data harvested by its Street View cars from…
UK: Government yet to set ContactPoint closure date
Kable reports: The Department for Education has yet to set a timetable to abolish the controversial database of all children in England. A spokesperson for the department told GC News that, unlike ID cards and the National Identity Register, the abolition of ContactPoint does not require primary legislation. She said that necessary changes to regulations…
AU: Google says Communications Minister Stephen Conroy won’t listen
Peter Farquhar and Andrew Ramadge report: The relationship between the world’s biggest web company and Australia’s communications minister appears to have broken down entirely. Google Australia head of engineering Alan Noble today said the search giant was all but resigned to the fact that Stephen Conroy had singled it out as the poster boy for…