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Australia's Asylum-Seeker Database Leaked

posted by Dopefish on Friday February 21 2014, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the another-nope-from-down-under dept.

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."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:04AM (#4642)

    No, you are not being too cynical in the current climate. There is a war going on and like all modern wars it is not declared fought in secret forever dipping in and out of the news of the day right in front of everyone.

    Specific groups of people have been trying to enter australia by any means possible with the specific goal of increasing their numbers for which since 2007 they have been highly successful; society in australia is changing and with more people coming in they are slowly influencing every day life. Right now they are not allowed to enter the country. They are very upset [theguardian.com] about this. Unfortunately for them the Christian people of PNG are more direct. So is the australian government [theguardian.com]. The Australian [theguardian.com] has a lot of information about this.

    It would not be too surprising to find a bleeding heart inside the australian government looking for an opportunity to advance the cause of people who arrive in australia by boat.

    The dept of immigration has tight controls over production servers, this information should not have been anywhere near a production web server let alone linked