[privacy] Australian Tax Office Breaches Privacy

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via News.com.au.

[snip]

The tax records of hundreds of Australians have been illegally accessed
by Australian Taxation Office staff over the past two years.

Breaches include spying on clients' records and unauthorised access of
data systems.

A total of 917 taxpayers have had their records inappropriately
accessed by ATO staff since October 2004 and high-profile celebrities
and sports stars may have ben affected.

Earlier this year, multi-millionaire businessman and former producer
John Cornell – a close friend and business partner of actor Paul Hogan
– accused the tax office of deliberately leaking some of his records to
the media.

[snip]

More:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20696707-953,00.html

- ferg


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