Australian government ordered to compensate asylum seekers for privacy breaches
The Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner in Australia, Angelene Falk, has found the Department of Home Affairs interfered with the privacy of 9,251 asylum seekers by mistakenly releasing their personal information.
The case arose from the department, formerly the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, publishing a detention report on its website in error seven years ago. The document contained embedded personal information which could identify everyone in immigration detention on 31 January 2014.
Source: Australian government ordered to compensate asylum seekers for privacy breaches – PrivSec Report
