DHS concludes that privacy breaches are not privacy breaches
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- Category: Privacy
- Created: Tuesday, 22 April 2014 18:19
- Written by Alecomm2
The Australian Legislative Ethics Commission received correspondence from the Privacy Manager for the NSW Department of Community Services, regarding the matter of a Wagga Wagga DHS Caseworker, Amanda Credlin, who copied and pasted over two hundred pages of personal information from peoples facebook pages, and support sites for victims of child protection, and then supplied that information to the NSW Children's Courts.
Many of the people whose privacy was violated, have been told that because the department were investigating another person, that it was okay for their personal information to be supplied to the NSW Children's Courts because DoCS says so. What it inevitably means, is that yet again, DoCS are unaccountable for any violation of legislation and policy, and that regardless of all the purported laws out there, the don't have to abide by a single one of them.
We hoped that the department would concede that what they did was wrong, and that they would make undertakings that they would not do such unlawful actions again. They did not. They continue to allow caseworkers to spend money and time playing on facebook to see if somebody doesn't like them, and then they use solicitors to submit the matters into court and then they use the courts time and expenses to run down the parents because the parents don't like them.
Is it any wonder nobody likes a DHS worker when they are allowed to break the rules without any repercussions? Particularly when they are supposed to be protecting children and do nothing but persecute good people because their ego is hurt. Maybe if they did their job properly then people would actually respect them. Until then, they are the trash of the government and nobody will convince us otherwise.
Ms Credlin was rang this morning, to inform her, that we, the community have serious objections to her spying on and using our thoughts and personal information in her affidavits that were submitted to the NSW Children's Court, as excuse to destroy a happy family and keep a beautiful innocent girl with strangers, whom the department has alleged has been sexually assaulted since being placed in their choice of strangers.
If Ms Amanda Credlin likes her privacy and wants it respected, then maybe she should start respecting other peoples right to privacy also.
DHS says all information about people available publicly has no right to privacy. So if they're going to breach our privacy and say it's okay, then giving this publicly found info must be also !!
Sweet dreams ...
