Sydney Morning Herald | January 10, 2010 | Lucy Battersby
THE privacy commissioner will investigate the way Vodafone handles customer data after reports that private information was easily accessible to outsiders.
Vodafone is looking for the people who breached its customer database.
More stories have emerged of privacy breaches. One customer was sent a letter addressed to someone else after making an inquiry about the safety of his own data. And a Brisbane man said $100 worth of products were bought with his credit card from a Vodafone store in Chatswood, Sydney.Â
The Privacy Commission said it would investigate whether Vodafone’s handling of customer data breached the National Privacy Principles.
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