Personal data 'being shared'

UNPRECEDENTED volumes of personal information on millions of ordinary Australians are being shared between federal government departments under dramatic extensions of a little-known "data matching" scheme, privacy advocates have warned.

Federal agencies are increasingly cross-matching the personal data held in vast government databases to spy on Australians.

The depth of personal information held by the Government has reached extraordinary levels, with the Tax Office keeping records of such details as religious affiliation and criminal convictions.

"Matching is inherently contrary to the privacy principle that (personal) information should only be used for the purpose it was collected," Australian Privacy Foundation spokesman Nigel Waters said.

The attorney-general's department says identity theft costs the Australian economy more than $1.1billion a year.

But privacy advocates, already concerned about the renewed Australia Card debate, believe the increased use of data matching could actually stymie the Government's efforts to combat identity theft.

They are also concerned that inappropriate information is being shared by government agencies.

Data-matching personal information between departments to improve the accuracy of identity details could create more "data quality" problems than it solved, Mr Waters said.

"Matching invariably brings major data quality (problems) as the data has been collected for different purposes."

While the largest federal government data-matching program is covered by laws restricting the use of personal information, most activity is covered by less stringent voluntary guidelines administered by federal Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis. Ms Curtis was not available for comment yesterday.

By James Riley, Selina Mitchell and ID Alert 23 July 05

Ed: The Privacy Act

Yet if a client contacts you from an institution including a psychiatric hospital or prison and says that they have been mistreated can you help? The response from the Ombudsman, the psychiatric facility or the prison:

"Under the Privacy Act's provisions you do not have permission to act for or seek any information about your client."

So the client who contacted your organisation by phone "in a crisis situation" and who believes they have no other means of getting help, can't get assistance from the community.

Even after they themselves have contacted the authorities, have to find the materials means to write out an authorisation to that organization, which would include the purchase of a stamp.

Then get it posted and wait for the post to arrive at that organization. And until that organisation send the authority to the authority complained to, even though (their client asked by phone to assist them urgently) no further enquiries can be made.

Why is the "data matching" scheme more important than a human being in a crisis situation in relation to personal information and should it be the other way around?

Should it be left up to the authorities to deal with complaints when the community can assist just in case the authorities are overlooking the situation intentionally, under resourced, understaffed or there is no utility or funding and or if someone in the government can be bothered at all?

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No ID Cards
There is already an ID card the tax-file number cross referenced with medicare card drivers license and or passport. Why not just have us implanted with micro-chips as that will be the most convenient for the State by whoever runs it...no those laissez faire tax-dodging Libs will split. Their bosses like BHP-Billiton owe $850 million in tax. Will they also do a Vizard ? Meanwhile in Britland....

Thank God they're looking out for me
That's the thing about Australians who look and talk funny, they don't respect our culture. Good Aussies ALWAYS carry ID in case the Gestapo, I mean, Culture Police pick them up.

More police powers for spyware
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Community seeks more power to interrogate ASIO suspects
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A corrupt way to treat the community?
I seen the police bleeding on Nine's Sunday program arguing that promotion should depend on how many crimes police have solved and not how many brains they have and that was coming from police commissioner Ken Moroney and Police Minister John Watkins?

AFP: The unlikely CRIMINAL
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Ruddock moves to give police access to emails
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Dictatorship under the crimes Act?
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Standing up for liberties
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Fascist wants more power for ASIO
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Gulag bill: ASIO set to ignite blazing debate
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Criminal's DNA filed under relative's name
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Surveillance
It is up to ordinary people to raise the level of debate about the undemocratic surveillance practices of the many faceless and unaccountable agents who make daily intrusions on individual privacy, and about the apologists and propagandists for the War nn Terror who applaud every new attack on human rights and freedoms as "prudent" or "necessary". If there is no discussion of reverse surveillance in the national media, create it on the streets on a citizen to citizen basis. If nobody is talking about the outrageous assaults on privacy and human rights embodied in the new antiterrorist acts forced through US, UK and Australian legislatures, start talking about it to your neighbours and friends.

Welcome to the MatrixB
US - In what civil liberties advocates call the most massive database surveillance program in US history, the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix, continues to compile billions of records on law-abiding citizens and receive federal funding, despite public outcry and suspicion.

Govt tests airport security eye scanner
Technology that identifies people by scanning their eyes could be introduced into Australian airports as early as next year.

Ruddock foreshadows new terrorism laws
The new laws will allow police to access emails and mobile phone SMS messages, enable wider use of surveillance devices, and protect sensitive national security information during terrorism trials.

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Seriously Ten seriously blue and seriously flawed!
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NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
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Xerox workers to strike over satellite tracking plan
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Police Chronology 1994-2001
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Ex-crims face sack in every plan?

THOUSANDS of workers with criminal convictions could be removed from the nation's airports and ports under a security crackdown to be considered by cabinet today.

But why is being an ex-crim and going to work a crime?

With the John HoWARd government's skilled and unskilled job shortages one does not have to wonder why?

The government won't employ ex-crims and now they're pushing the private sector into putting them off so they can join the unemployment que?

The latest target by the fascist HoWARd Government is the Airport workers' and wharfies with convictions for crimes such as assault and theft that could be sacked or denied a security clearance under the fascist plan.

The HoWARd Government will also move to appoint security supremos at Sydney and other major airports around Australia.

The pro-government corporate Newspaper the Un-Australian is jumping up and down intimating that the government sack honest workers as well as those who have been charged with a criminal offence.

But it makes you wonder whether they're too close to the action? How about they reveal their sources?

And if everyone who has a past criminal conviction has to get the sack because some right wing religious corporate media giant jumps up and down whether they're doing it for HoWARd or not, then you can bet all they're doing is trying to protect their own greedy interests. Of course it's a two way street, tit for tat and a pat on the back.

How can the corporations ensure there is no disruption to their precious tourist industry that reportedly brings in 20 Billion dollars a year opposed to the working-men-and-women's meagre living wage?

Shame about the jobs and other people's lively-hoods, that doesn't count.

How about News Limited employs these people?

The new team will have unprecedented powers to pursue criminal leads and co-ordinate the role of agencies including Customs, the Australian Federal Police and ASIO.

The planned security blitz allegedly follows embarrassing revelations published in The Un-Australian alleging that baggage handlers and other staff at Sydney Airport had been involved in organised crime.

But like I said how about identifying their sources?

Come on down John HoWARd's tourist industry opposed to the hard working men and women of this country trying to pay off a mortgage or make ends meet, just to survive.

What we need is a national industrial strike!

Government sources deny today's cabinet debate is a knee-jerk response to last week's outcry. That's because no doubt they initiated the material that went to the Un-Australian as per usual. They'd like you to think that the Un-Australian found it - but in reverse, it is more likely than not - the other way around.

It takes the heat of the fascist oppressors the HoWARd Government because they want you to think that it is someone else's finding, that they need to act on. But if the truth, be known the Government is creating the problem.

The Un-Australian: "Well-placed sources said last night that workers with convictions for even minor crimes could be axed, if they had been convicted several times."

A massive stocktake of all airport workers will be undertaken.

"This will be a central attack on criminality at airports," one senior government figure, familiar with the cabinet plan, told The Australian.

And it will cast the net much wider than the present security framework, which focuses on workers suspected of having any links with terrorism.

But it is likely to trigger union criticism that the Government is being over-zealous in preventing anyone with a criminal conviction from working in sensitive transport areas.

While cabinet will focus on cleaning up airport security, the Government is also likely to extend the crackdown to the nation's ports.

Deputy Prime Minister Anderson's plan will make it harder for people to obtain an Aviation Security Identity Card if they have been charged with a range of medium-level offences.

Conviction for minor crimes could see workers banned from working around airline baggage and other cargo.

Mr Anderson admitted last week that the Government needed to tighten up who worked at airports."

The bullshit from Anderson reported in the Un-Australian about what the community wants?

The Un-Australian: Anderson: "The community now wants us to look at who is a fit and proper person on those issues of criminality," he said.

But this is what the government wants not what the community wants because the Un-Australian has not given up their sources?

Allegedly, this followed the revelation, in The Australian, that a man who had served eight years in jail for drug smuggling was still working at Sydney Airport.

The Government is the problem

THE Un-Australian: A "classified Customs report" also"

They mean along the Un-Australian's Revelations?

The Un-Australian: "cited many workers convicted of lesser crimes including vehicle thefts, car re-birthing, escaping from custody and firearm offences."

But all those revelations came from the government itself and not the Un-Australian surely?

Now every time the pro-government media says something is wrong and - the government reacts to it like they have to - then you know damn well that it is the government's intention all along - only now they have to invest little time convincing you -because you think you need it, according to the Un-Australian - whose plan is to undermine Australia for the corporate US giants.

The Un-Australian: "About 50 workers have been removed from airports, or denied an ASIC clearance, under a sweep prompted by fears of a terrorist attack. But cabinet will consider a more fundamental crackdown on criminal behaviour, less than a fortnight since the conviction of Schapelle Corby for drug smuggling in Bali.

An international security expert is likely to oversee the review of ASIC holders and the introduction of the tougher rules.

The Government has been under pressure from Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon and Sydney Airport boss Max Moore-Wilton to tighten up criminal checks?

Qantas revealed last week that Sydney and Brisbane joined Mumbai as the only airports in its network of 100 major destinations that did not have a permanent uniformed police presence dedicated to community policing and crime prevention.

Mr Moore-Wilton renewed the pressure yesterday when he told Sydney radio that ASIC checks concentrating on terrorism but not crime had pointed to a "big gap in practical thinking".

An ex-crim is not an honest person?

"You can't separate them," he said. "The public and, certainly I -- and I know Geoff Dixon as well -- want honest people working at the airport so that the general public can feel they are safe and they don't have 'criminals' handling or tampering with their baggage."

And I suppose they don't want 'ex-criminals' taking a funking holiday either? He did mean 'ex-criminals' didn't he?

And another job bites the dust

Mr Moore-Wilton who is not working along side HoWARd? Said authorities had to make sure people with "a criminal record or criminal intent" did not work at airports. He said the identity card system had to be made foolproof.

Now they have criminal intent? So we have ex-criminals, criminals, and now people with criminal intent, sound familiar? Does he tune in to CH/10 thriving on CRIMINAL INTENT ON SUNDAY NIGHTS?

THE UN-AUSTRALIAN: "Aviation sources have raised concerns that criminal checks for the cards do not go far enough, have a 10-year limit on crimes that can be considered and do not require applicants to be fingerprinted.

Asked about reports that workers could easily use the cards to swipe other people through security gates, Mr Moore-Wilton said: "That's not acceptable. And, I think, we've got to get the police to get their act together."

He Did Time, So He's Unfit to Do Hair

She has managed to turn life in federal prison into a nifty career move. Her company's stock is soaring, and she has plans for not one but two television shows. It almost makes you wonder why the Enron types are fighting so hard to stay out of jail.

Six weeks, six months, six years: inmates have little chance of making fresh start

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The Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 Qld

The Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 (Qld), requires that any person who has committed an offence which is less than 10 years old or which resulted in a prison sentence of more than 30 months, must disclose that offence if requested eg. for employment purposes. If a criminal record is disclosed in a job application, it is unlikely that person will be given the job.

Judged Forever- The Orange County Register

California's largest job-placement program for parolees will be shut down May 31 after an Orange County Register investigation found that ex-convicts were sent to questionable jobs and that the state was charged for placements that did not occur.

Justice Action In 'JAIL'?

Jobs after jail: She had a drug conviction some years ago - was selected for public service job in August. A few days before she was due to start, the department concerned told her she couldn't have the job. She has also been advised that she can't sit on the committee of any organisation (e.g. NSW Justice Advocacy or similar).

SENTENCED FOR LIFE

Name removed by request served time in prison decades ago. Shes still being punished today. According to commonwealth and state legislation, ex-prisoners applying for jobs must declare any conviction that fits into the following categories: less than 10 years old, more than 10 years old but served more than 30 months in prison

By Stop Kidding Ex-Crims 7 June

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