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Australian Federal Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Stalking Using Restricted Databases

posted by CoolHand on Sunday June 07 2015, @12:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the pig-stalkers dept.

takyon writes:

A former Australian Federal Police counter-terrorism officer has pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking using restricted databases:

The officer, Roman Eiginson, stood trial for stalking an ex who had left him when he married a Russian woman. As the Canberra Times reports, 53-year-old Eiginson is a former Soviet soldier who came to Australia in the early 1990s and joined the AFP in 2001.

Eiginson used the AFP's PROMIS (Police Realtime Online Management System) database to get the addresses of the ex-girlfriend and her new partner. Due to face six charges in the ACT Magistrates Court yesterday, Eiginson entered his guilty plea to two charges and the prosecution offered no evidence on the others, the Canberra Times reports.

The AFP is one of the most prominent supporters of mass data retention in Australia, but this isn't the first time in recent years it's had trouble policing its own officers' handling of data. In 2014, an officer in NSW was charged with a range of offences including two counts of divulging proscribed information, and four counts of unauthorised access to data.

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  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:05AM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:05AM (#193064) Journal

    It's quoted from the The Register, a bastion of fine journalism, so you're looking at the wrong editors.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:06AM (#193066)

    I don't care who originally wrote it. I read it on this site, so the editors here shouldn't have let it through.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:18AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:18AM (#193076)

      I don't care who originally wrote it. I read it on this site, so the editors here shouldn't have let it through.

      Can we take this as your volunteering to be an editor?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:21AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:21AM (#193079)

        We should be able to suggest edits to the "Pending Stories" stories before they end up on the front page. That way not just I can volunteer to be an editor, but you and anyone else could, too.