Centrelink fiasco: when can the government release your personal information?
1 March 2017
The Guardian
Information about a welfare recipient is considered protected but there are exceptions to the rule
privacy
Querying the Government’s Authority to “Correct the Record”
28 February 2017
Law and Justice: Latrobe Law School Blog
“We don’t comment on particular cases”. Few lines are more ubiquitous in the public sphere. It is no surprise therefore, that the controversy regarding the disclosure of an individual’s personal information by the Department of Human Services has touched off enormous media comment and criticism.
Privacy Commissioner 'making inquiries' after Centrelink leaked personal information to journalist
28 February 2017
ABC News
The Government's privacy watchdog wants answers from bureaucrats who provided a Centrelink client's personal details to a journalist in a bid to counter her public criticisms.
Public servants have also told ABC News they are concerned the disclosure could inadvertently breach the privacy undertakings of other departments who share their data with Department of Human Services (DHS).
Privacy commissioner ‘making inquiries’ about Centrelink’s flexible privacy principles
28 February 2017
The Mandarin
Activists accuse the Department of Human Services of releasing private personal information about a woman in an effort to silence her criticism of its much-maligned debt recovery drive, but the department maintains it has done nothing wrong and the privacy commissioner is looking into the case.
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