[LINK] Australian data breach notification law?

[Michael Still]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> One of the biggest problems is the relevance of the data being sought.
> The other day I signed up to Engin VoIP and one of their mandatory form
> requirements was either your driving licence number or your passport
> number.  What is the relevance of either to a VoIP service?  In point of
> fact, it might be quite possible that some old dear, who wants to keep
> in touch with the family by low cost phone calls, would have neither.
> Needless to say, the licence number I gave was bogus.

I think that's a government requirement. Last time I got a cell phone
(many years ago) I had to show a license too. It was a gift for my
mother in law, and the complexity of changing the "owner" of the phone
is a story for another day.

I think they do it so they can track "people of interest". You know,
like people who have an opinion about things that differs from theirs.

Mikal