[Year 12 IT Apps] Millions of personal records bought on eBay

[Geraldine McKenna]

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


On 27/8/08 9:31 PM, "Allan Barnes" <abarnes at aiet.com.au> wrote:

> 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 wasn¹t on the ABC I wouldn¹t have believed it.
>  
> No mention of consequences for the violation of Privacy laws?
> Geraldine McKenna
> Avila College
> Memory stick with prisoners' addresses lost in UK
> Posted Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:49pm AEST
> 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.
> 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.
> The Government says the information was not encrypted.
> 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.
>  
>  
> 
> Kind regards
>  
> Allan Barnes, CEO
> Australian Institute of Education and Training
> P.O. Box 171
> Brunswick West 3055
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Anderson, Stuart L
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 6:52 PM
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> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Millions of personal records bought on eBay
>  
> 
> 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. 
> 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.
> 
> 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), The Independent reported.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24250352-5014239,00.html
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