[LINK] Centrelink staff sacked for privacy breaches

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 10:57 AM 23/08/2006, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> 
>> I thought, that under the Workplace Surveillance Act, that employees
>> had to be informed that such activities were taking place and that
>> the use of such techniques without informing the employee was illegal?
>>
>> If so, this would mean that there could be many appeals against the 
>> sackings.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know that they weren't told? People still do dumb things, 
> even when they know they're being watched. Think speed cameras. We had a 
> situation on the Monash Freeway where the police announced over and over 
> there would be a blitz. They caught HUNDREDS if idiots doing the wrong 
> thing.
...in NSW the idiots fixed that...they started a court case saying the 
fines issued were not legal!

I understand now that in NSW, the Office of State Revenue issues the 
fines instead of whoever did before.

M
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