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…
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UK: Home Office spawns new unit to expand internet surveillance
Chris Williams reports: The Home Office has created a new unit to oversee a massive increase in surveillance of the internet, The Register has learned, quashing suggestions the plans are on hold until after the election. The new Communications Capabilities Directorate (CCD) has been created as a structure to implement the £2bn Interception Modernisation Programme…
Ca: Review finds government officials botched handling of privacy breach
Rob Shaw and Lindsay Kines report: Mistakes, missed opportunities and bureaucratic bungling led more than two dozen officials to botch the B.C. government’s response to a major privacy breach, according to a scathing internal review released yesterday. The investigation found supervisors in four provincial ministries used poor judgment and failed to alert the right people…
England football captain John Terry loses privacy battle
Gordon Rayner and Martin Evans report: The “creeping” culture of secrecy in Britain’s courts was halted when a judge revoked a privacy injunction obtained by the England football captain John Terry. Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled that there were no grounds for a gagging order that prevented the disclosure that the £150,000-a-week Chelsea player and married…