[LINK] Centrelink staff sacked for privacy breaches

[Jonathan O'Donnell]

Centrelink provides information on privacy investigations in its  
annual report, and has done for several years.

2002 - 2003:
<http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/ar0203/4_4_01.htm>

2003 - 2004: <http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/ 
f7860a7efe3027d8ca256989000a8b1e/0a19c71fa28f4f9cca256fbd007af635! 
OpenDocument&Highlight=2,privacy>

2004 - 2005:
See page 26 (page 116 of published report) [PDF]: <http:// 
www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/filestores/ar0405pdf/ 
$file/chapter_5.pdf>
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Jonathan O'Donnell
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> From: Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>
> Date: 23 August 2006 8:16:24 AM
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> Subject: [LINK] Centrelink staff sacked for privacy breaches
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>
> 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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