Dozens of NT Centrelink clients' details published on public Facebook page

guest · Apr 27, 2019

Dozens of NT Centrelink clients' details published on public Facebook page
April 26, 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04...ls-published-on-public-facebook-page/11049804

A Commonwealth-funded work-for-the-dole provider uploaded lists of people who were required to attend client meetings to a public Facebook page.

"We are at a loss as to why anyone would post about workers' appointments online," union official Lara Watson said.
"We were shocked at the publication of names on a social media platform."
"It advertised that a person is accessing welfare services, and unfortunately in Australia there's discrimination against people accessing welfare services.

The Galiwinku CDP page appears to have since been removed from the internet but the organisation denied any wrongdoing.
"We do not believe that this is a breach of confidentiality," an ALPA spokeswoman said.
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Centrelink privacy breach 'horrendous'

Chair of the Electronic frontiers Australia, Lyndsey Jackson said the situation was "extraordinary".

"Extraordinary on two levels - that the organisation thought this was acceptable and that the department doubled down in their response," she told AAP.
She said there was a disregard about how putting information in the public domain could have a lasting effect and asked why it was not a breach of the privacy act.
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Krusty · Apr 27, 2019

The Galiwinku CDP organisation should be quite happy to post their details publicly then.

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