Telco warned over customer silent number privacy breaches

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[1] The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a strong warning to the Southern Phone Company over a breach of privacy that affected thousands of its silent line customers.

[2] ACMA accuses the company of inadvertently removing the silent number classification from the records of 3,854 of its silent line customers when uploading data to the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND).

[3] The customers’ telephone numbers and associated name and address details were published in three Australia-wide online public number directories between 18 March 2014 and 24 July last year.

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[Source] Australian Information Technology News – Telco warned over customer silent number privacy breaches