{"id":9334,"date":"2019-08-19T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2019-08-19T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:54:39","slug":"public-transport-vic-breach-privacy-laws-with-dataset-provided-for-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/public-transport-vic-breach-privacy-laws-with-dataset-provided-for-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Transport Vic breach privacy laws with dataset provided for hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victoria\u2019s public transport authority has been found to have breached privacy laws after releasing a dataset containing 15 million partially redacted public transport passenger details online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nIn a government run hackathon in 2018 the then Public Transport Victoria provided what they believed to be a de-identified dataset of Myki use.<\/p>\n

An investigation by the Office of the Victorian Information Commission (OVIC) has found the data contained detailed information, which breaches the state’s own privacy laws.<\/p>\n

In addition to being available through the annual competition the data was provided to academics at Melbourne University whom were able to identify themselves and others from the dataset.<\/p>\n

Whilst the Department of Transport (formerly Public Transport Victoria) deny any wrong-doings and choose to not accept the finding presented by OVIC they have agreed to implement new procedures when de-identifying data in the future.<\/p>\n

Source: Botched myki data release breached privacy laws – Security – iTnews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria\u2019s public transport authority has been found to have breached privacy laws after releasing a dataset containing 15…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9337,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions\/9337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}