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Published 3 years ago

Australia Ordered To Pay Migrants For Privacy Breach

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An Australian watchdog on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to over a thousand asylum seekers whose personal data was wrongly made public seven years ago. Lawyers believe this is the first time in Australian history that compensation has been ordered for a mass privacy breach.

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Australian government ordered to pay 1,300 asylum seekers whose details were exposed

Compensation to be paid after personal details of almost 10,000 asylum seekers were mistakenly published online in 2014The Australian government has been ordered to compensate almost 1,300 asylum seekers whose details were mistakenly exposed online in one of the country’s most shocking privacy breaches.After almost six years investigating, the privacy regulator has finally released a report into a 2014 privacy breach that caused a database of al…

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom
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IBTimesIBTimes

Australia Ordered To Pay Migrants For Privacy Breach

An Australian watchdog on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to over a thousand asylum seekers whose personal data was wrongly made public seven years ago. Lawyers believe this is the first time in Australian history that compensation has been ordered for a mass privacy breach. More than 9,000 migrants had their personal information -- including their name, date of birth, citizenship, reason for detention and location they were bei…

3 years ago·United States
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Capital FM KenyaCapital FM Kenya

Australia ordered to pay migrants for privacy breach

Sydney, Australia, Jan 27 – An Australian watchdog on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to over a thousand asylum seekers whose personal data was wrongly made public seven years ago.Lawyers believe this is the first time in Australian history that compensation has been ordered for a mass privacy breach.More than 9,000 migrants had their personal information — including their name, date of birth, citizenship, reason for detention an…

3 years ago·Nairobi, Kenya
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Australia Ordered To Pay Migrants For Privacy Breach

Australia ordered to pay migrants for privacy breach

3 years ago·Australia
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Federal government to pay 1,300 seeking asylum after personal data leak

In what's being described as an Australia-first, the federal government has been ordered to pay compensation to almost 1,300 people seeking asylum after leaking highly-sensitive personal information.

3 years ago
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