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AU: Melbourne student health records posted online in ‘appalling’ privacy breach

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Dissent

The Australian Associated Press reports:

The personal records of hundreds of Melbourne high school students have been mistakenly published, sparking an investigation into an “appalling” privacy breach.

The Victoria education minister, James Merlino, said his department would launch an inquiry into the breach at Strathmore secondary college in the city’s north-west.

Read more on The Guardian.

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