[LINK] Centrelink staff sacked for privacy breaches

[Kim Holburn]

Almost everything about this seem wrong to me.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1721505.htm

> Hundreds of Centrelink staff have been caught inappropriately  
> looking up the records of friends and ex-lovers.
>
> The privacy breaches were uncovered using specially designed  
> spyware software.
>
> As a result of a two-year investigation, Centrelink has uncovered  
> nearly 800 cases of what it has described as inappropriate access  
> by staff to customer records.
>
> Nineteen staff have been sacked and nearly 100 resigned when they  
> were confronted with the allegations.
>
> Five of the cases have also been referred by Centrelink to the  
> Australian Federal Police (AFP).
>
> Centrelink general manager Hank Jongen says breaches of customers'  
> privacy will not be tolerated.
>
> "It was done for a whole range of reasons - from just sticky- 
> beaking, through to at the more serious end of records actually  
> being changed," he said.
>
> More than 300 Centrelink staff are also facing salary deductions or  
> fines, while 46 have been reprimanded.

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