The healthcare industry has again reported the most data breaches to the privacy regulator in the first half of 2022, continuing a trend since Australia's reporting scheme began in 2018. ......
The real estate industry is a prime target for a cyberattack that could jeopardise millions of Australian's personal data. The industry is notorious for its invasive data collection practices. The...
Medibank Private, one of Australia's largest private health insurance companies, were the target of cyber attack this month. The breach has affected more than 4 million people, exposing personal...
On 22 September, 2022 Optus, an Australia telecommunications provider, was hacked exposing the data of 9.8 million cusotmers. Bellow is a collection of articles published in the month since the...
Australia’s privacy and communications regulators have launched coordinated investigations into the Optus data breach that saw the personal data of 9.8 million Australians compromised last month....
Senior management of a Tasmanian youth detention facility at the centre of sexual and physical abuse allegations have instructed staff to shred incident reports, an inquiry has been told. Ashley...
PG&E's poor record keeping practices lead to the San Bruno gas-line explosion that killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes in California, United States. Below is a collection of news article...
While gun ownership can be controversial, the role of recordkeeping in gun control is not. Below are examples of where flawed recordkeeping put institutions and individuals at risk. Shoddy...
Prosecuting or defending a case is a vital democratic right, but one that's easily undermined by poor recordkeeping. Mother and Baby Home Commission destroys witness testimony Tusla's...
It's not just blood that keeps families together – recordkeeping has a role to play too. Below is a collection of recordkeeping failures that have kept families separated and left people...
Failure to meet recordkeeping obligations isn't just a business risk – it can impact human rights, especially for society's most vulnerable cohorts. The following is a collection of documented...
A Department of Home Affairs (DHA) contractor suspected of illegally sending classified documents to an unsecured location was allowed to continue working in the public service. The man is alleged...
Gaps in the historical record have kept Indigenous people disconnected from their families, cultures, homes, and identities. The records that do remain have a pivotal role to play in the fight for...
South Australia's Treasurer says 13,088 current and former public servants more than previously thought had their personal information stolen in a 2021 cyber attack. Treasurer Stephen Mullighan told...
A barrage of questions fills Regina Discenza's head every time she thinks about what her parents, Charles and Madeline Costantino, suffered through two years ago as COVID-19 swept through the New...
In 2018, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) was alarmed when Facebook notified the commission, between June and December, of 12 separate data breaches that affected up to 30 million...
The Eastern Cape government of Premier Oscar Mabuyane will have to report to a judge every three months on progress in implementing a financial recovery plan for the Makana Municipality. This is...
McKesson Corporation (MCK) has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to resolve alleged recordkeeping violations, the Department of Justice announced on Monday. The agreement between DoJ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (today) announced charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMS), a broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for widespread and longstanding...
Cape Town - Eskom's leaders found themselves in hot water yesterday when it emerged that they had failed to provide adequate documents in the auditing of their finances for the 2020-21 financial...
He grew up in a tiny South Australian town famous for its rodeo, but historian Robin Prior has made his career roping in the myths proliferating around Australia’s war efforts. His huge new...
For as long as she can remember, Danita Bilozaze knew that the name on her birth certificate, "Danita Loth," didn't reflect her Indigenous identity. From the stories her mother recounted to her, she...
Future public inquiries such as the recent Alex Salmond affair at Holyrood could be jeopardised by poor information management practices, a government internal review has found. The way that the...
"A report into the use of statutory powers by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has given these a pass mark but uncovered serious deficiencies in the AFP’s record-keeping practices and processes....
A coronial inquest into the death of a central Queensland miner who suffocated on lethal gas has found operator Anglo American's record keeping was "grossly deficient" and his death could have been...
Historians fear untold Australian stories could be lost without a substantial funding increase for the National Archives to prevent the disintegration of records dating back to the mid-19th century....
The organisers of an inaugural open day at one of Australia's largest former Aboriginal missions hope the event will become a national movement towards Indigenous reconciliation. ... The separation...
After insisting his administration had done nothing wrong last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo, on Monday, did not directly apologize for a lack of transparency surrounding the record-keeping of COVID...
(CN) — California’s foray into mass vaccination against Covid-19 has been marred by poor data management that has given an inaccurate snapshot on how many people have received their inoculation...
The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has written to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission over the destruction of recordings of witness testimony. A total of 550 people provided personal accounts...
The NSW premier’s office broke state record-keeping laws by shredding documents related to a pork-barrelling scheme, a watchdog has found. ... An adviser to the premier in October told a...
There’s growing concern among historians and political analysts that missing documents will leave a hole in the record of President Donald Trump’s term, one of America’s most tumultuous...
ICO notches up first successful FoI prosecution A town clerk in the English county of Shropshire has been the subject of the first ever successful Freedom of Information prosecution after lying to a...
Homeowners near Wellington are reporting their local council losing the paperwork for their houses. Sue Mortimer can't sell her sunny home on a bush-clad hillside with a glimpse of Plimmerton Beach...
Utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric is being accused of falsifying gas pipeline safety records by California regulators in the aftermath of a pipeline explosion that killed eight people in 2010....
David Livingston was convicted of unauthorised use of a computer system for arranging a password that enabled a private contractor to clear hard drives in the Premier’s office before Kathleen Wynne...
The Department of the Interior’s internal watchdog office has concluded that it cannot determine whether an unusual and controversial reassignment of dozens of senior employees ran afoul of federal...
A shocking report has revealed that vulnerable children are being put at risk due to failings in Wakefield Council's services... Recording of social work was deemed to be "poor" in some cases....
It's often seen as one of the government's thankless achievements, despite helping build civilisations. Records management, the tool helping drive so many services for the community, has taken...
A man born in London to German parents has been told he cannot get a British passport unless he takes a UK citizenship test because he cannot prove his mother was legally in the country when she...
The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no...
Government oversight officials informed Congress on Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration continues to operate in disarray, failing to record basic security details for thousands...
The Commonwealth Bank does not currently have advice files for more than one in 10 of the cases registered for its compensation scheme for victims of dodgy financial advice. A CBA update on Tuesday...
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has lost 12 years of gas-line repair records for part of the Bay Area — the largest such gap to emerge since the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion was blamed on...
New Zealand government agencies have been given a rap on the knuckles for poor record-keeping practices in the 2014-205 annual report from Archives New Zealand, which found that that important...
raining of roughly 200 supervisors at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in the handling of public records as well as other steps to improve a broken and possibly illegal system of not keeping emails...
A former Pacific Gas and Electric Co. official hired after the San Bruno gas-pipeline explosion to clean up the company’s records said management ordered her to destroy documents and that she found...
The head of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in Queensland ordered the covering up of the destruction of tonnes of documents demanded by the royal commission into trade...
After a nine-month probe, the VA's Office of Inspector General made 35 recommendations to address shoddy record-keeping, bungled claims, inadequate security, and poor working conditions at the...
The federal health department has been criticised by the Australian National Audit Office for its administration of a $15 billion agreement with pharmacists. The audit office identified several...
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