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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Can we assume that legal action would be taken against these organisations / individuals for breach of privacy. We are teaching our students about these laws and discussing consequences <BR>
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On 27/8/08 9:31 PM, "Allan Barnes" <abarnes@aiet.com.au> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>This is similar to a story in the news last week about a person who had all of the personal details of 84,000 prisoners in England and lost the memory stick. If it wasn’t on the ABC I wouldn’t have believed it.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>No mention of consequences for the violation of Privacy laws?<BR>
Geraldine McKenna<BR>
Avila College<BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="7"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:32.0px'><B>Memory stick with prisoners' addresses lost in UK<BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Posted Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:49pm AEST <BR>
The British Government says a private contractor working for the Home Office has lost a computer memory stick containing personal details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.<BR>
The memory stick contains the names, birth dates and release dates of many inmates, as well as the home addresses of almost half of them.<BR>
The Government says the information was not encrypted.<BR>
It is the latest in a string of data leaks from British Government departments, including the admission last November that the confidential records on 25 million Britons who receive child benefits had been lost.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Kind regards<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Allan Barnes, CEO<BR>
Australian Institute of Education and Training<BR>
P.O. Box 171<BR>
Brunswick West 3055<BR>
Ph: (03) 9387 2051<BR>
FAX: (03) 9387 3470<BR>
Mobile: 0409 428 221<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'><B>From:</B> itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au [<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au]">mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au]</a> <B>On Behalf Of </B>Anderson, Stuart L<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 27 August 2008 6:52 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [Year 12 IT Apps] Millions of personal records bought on eBay<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>A BRITISH data processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff member sold a computer on eBay containing personal details of one million bank customers. <BR>
The computer was bought on the online auction site for £35 ($75) by Andrew Chapman, an IT manager from Oxford, in central England, who found the information on the computer's hard drive. <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>It included bank account numbers, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and signatures of one million customers of American Express, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), <I>The Independent</I> reported. <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>It had belonged to data processing company Mail Source which is part of Graphic Data, a company that holds financial information for banks and other organisations. <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'><a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24250352-5014239,00.html">http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24250352-5014239,00.html</a><BR>
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