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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It only happened 3 or 4 days ago and is still under
investigation. A link to the full story is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210200276">http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210200276</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Kind regards</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Allan Barnes, CEO</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Australian Institute of Education and Training</span><span
style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>P.O. Box 171</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Brunswick West 3055</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ph: (03) 9387 2051</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>FAX: (03) 9387 3470</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mobile: 0409 428 221</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Geraldine McKenna<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 27 August 2008 10:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Millions of personal records bought on
eBay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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>
<br>
<br>
On 27/8/08 9:31 PM, "Allan Barnes" <abarnes@aiet.com.au> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>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><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>No
mention of consequences for the violation of Privacy laws?<br>
Geraldine McKenna<br>
Avila College<br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Memory
stick with prisoners' addresses lost in UK<br>
</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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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color:#1F497D'> <br>
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</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Kind regards<br>
</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>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><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
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><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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>
</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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>
</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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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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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