RobotMonster writes:
"The Guardian reports that a vast database containing the full names, nationalities, location, arrival date, and boat arrival information for a third of all asylum seekers held in Australia -- almost 10,000 adults and children -- had been inadvertently released by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in one of the most serious privacy breaches in Australia's history.
The disclosure of the database is a major embarrassment for the federal government, which has adopted a policy of extreme secrecy on asylum-seeker issues. As the department is likely to have breached Australia's privacy laws, it will be interesting to see what the repercussions are for the people who should be held responsible."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by visaris on Friday February 21 2014, @08:48PM
I have similar issues when trying to motivate people (friends, family, etc.) to use encryption, sane passwords, etc. They couldn't care less what someone actually working in the computer industry with a graduate degree in computer science says, but if one of the talking heads on the news mentions a major hack/breach, they are all over it. These breaches and their increasing frequency do help the "common folk" become motivated to deal with the problem.
(Score: 0) by ragequit on Friday February 21 2014, @09:07PM
T some point though it will reach saturation and it will no longer be news.
The above views are fabricated for your reading pleasure.