The Victorian Government is under fire for breaching privacy laws after personal details of citizens were released in an online data dump.
The Government tabled around 80,000 pages of documents in Parliament, including private citizen correspondence, regarding then-Planning Minister Matthew Guy’s rezoning of Phillip Island farmland between 2011 and 2013.
The documents included health, financial and contact details of individuals and have since been removed from the Parliament’s website, but the Privacy Commissioner has warned the Government may be liable to a class-action.