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Federal government could pay millions in compensation over asylum seeker data breach

The Guardian Data Protection

The mass data breach, discovered by Guardian Australia in 2014 , resulted in information being used, in some cases, to allegedly threaten asylum seekers , or persecute and even jail their family members. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Australia news live: Coalition’s Jane Hume defends Reserve Bank governor, saying ‘poor old Philip Lowe is doing his job’

The Guardian Data Protection

Follow live Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Patricia Karvelas challenges Littleproud ’s Covid reasoning behind the Murray-Darling Basin delays on ABC RN this morning.

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Home affairs data breach may have exposed personal details of 700,000 migrants

The Guardian Data Protection

At a time the federal government is asking Australians to trust the security of data collected by its Covid-Safe contact tracing app , privacy experts are appalled by the breach, which they say is just the latest in a long line of cybersecurity blunders. Continue reading.

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Federal court launches snap investigation of its asylum seeker data breach

The Guardian Data Protection

Senior lawyer to examine how names of vulnerable people were published online The federal court has launched a snap investigation of how it potentially broke the law an estimated 400 times by revealing the names of asylum seekers on a public website.