[LINK] Centrelink staff sacked for privacy breaches

[Antony Barry]

On 23/08/2006, at 10:14 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> It made me think back to my days in higher ed administration when I  
> had access to all the student records in our college. Did I look?  
> Of course I did, but not very often. I had privileges. And we  
> weren't told not to. That was in the early days of computerisation  
> of student information. And I feel bad now that I did that.

Back when I implemented a circulation system in a library, (that's  
lending to non librarians) I though I'd check to see if the borrower  
database could be used to match addresses. Sure enough I was able to  
find which people shared the same address. I made sure those features  
of the database were not made widely available!

Tony

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