Cabscan Now Closing
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Cabscan Now Closing
Due to a possibility of privacy breach, I am now closing down cabscan site until further notice.
Some person has made a complaint re my site.
Here is a copy of the email I received today
PRIVACY COMPLAINT
I am writing to advise that the Privacy Commissioner has decided to conduct an own motion investigation under section 40(2) of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Act) into the website http://cabscan.bounceme.net/. The aim in conducting this investigation is to establish if http://cabscan.bounceme.net/’s practices are consistent with the Act.
I note that the Privacy Act regulates many private sector businesses in Australia, but there are exemptions. In particular, many small businesses are exempt from the Privacy Act. A business with an annual turnover of $3 million or less is a small business operator and so is not covered by the Privacy Act unless certain circumstances apply. These circumstances are described in the statements in question 4 below.
I am therefore seeking to first establish if this Office has jurisdiction to investigate http://cabscan.bounceme.net/. To this end I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:
1. Are you responsible for the website http://cabscan.bounceme.net/?
2. If no, could you please advise who is responsible for the website?
3. If yes to question 1, has http://cabscan.bounceme.net/ had an annual turnover greater than $3 million in any financial year since 21 December 2001?
4. If not, please advise if any of the following statements are true for http://cabscan.bounceme.net/:
a) it is related to a business (that is, its holding company or any subsidiary company) that has had an annual turnover greater than $3 million in any financial year since 21 December 2001;
b) it discloses personal information about another individual to anyone else for benefit, service or advantage (unless it does so with the consent of the individual concerned or is required or authorised to do so under legislation);
c) it provides a benefit, service or advantage to collect personal information about another individual from anyone else (unless it does so with the consent of the individual concerned or is required or authorised to do so under legislation); or
I would appreciate receiving your written response to the above questions by close of business on 13 February 2009.
Should you or one of your staff wish to discuss before providing the response, please contact me on the details below
If I get the ok from the privacy commission I will start my site again.
cheers
BG
Some person has made a complaint re my site.
Here is a copy of the email I received today
PRIVACY COMPLAINT
I am writing to advise that the Privacy Commissioner has decided to conduct an own motion investigation under section 40(2) of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Act) into the website http://cabscan.bounceme.net/. The aim in conducting this investigation is to establish if http://cabscan.bounceme.net/’s practices are consistent with the Act.
I note that the Privacy Act regulates many private sector businesses in Australia, but there are exemptions. In particular, many small businesses are exempt from the Privacy Act. A business with an annual turnover of $3 million or less is a small business operator and so is not covered by the Privacy Act unless certain circumstances apply. These circumstances are described in the statements in question 4 below.
I am therefore seeking to first establish if this Office has jurisdiction to investigate http://cabscan.bounceme.net/. To this end I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:
1. Are you responsible for the website http://cabscan.bounceme.net/?
2. If no, could you please advise who is responsible for the website?
3. If yes to question 1, has http://cabscan.bounceme.net/ had an annual turnover greater than $3 million in any financial year since 21 December 2001?
4. If not, please advise if any of the following statements are true for http://cabscan.bounceme.net/:
a) it is related to a business (that is, its holding company or any subsidiary company) that has had an annual turnover greater than $3 million in any financial year since 21 December 2001;
b) it discloses personal information about another individual to anyone else for benefit, service or advantage (unless it does so with the consent of the individual concerned or is required or authorised to do so under legislation);
c) it provides a benefit, service or advantage to collect personal information about another individual from anyone else (unless it does so with the consent of the individual concerned or is required or authorised to do so under legislation); or
I would appreciate receiving your written response to the above questions by close of business on 13 February 2009.
Should you or one of your staff wish to discuss before providing the response, please contact me on the details below
If I get the ok from the privacy commission I will start my site again.
cheers
BG
Cheers
BG
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
You should be sweet though ? cause all thats saying is that your a business making a profit which you arnt so all's well ?
Hope everything's alright.
Cheers Shane
Hope everything's alright.
Cheers Shane
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
Hmm... wonder who it was aye
Thats bad news man... but yeah hopefully you will be alright and back up and running in no time... you hav e all of my, and surely everybody elses support.
Thats bad news man... but yeah hopefully you will be alright and back up and running in no time... you hav e all of my, and surely everybody elses support.
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yeah i know who it was.. pm me..
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
i still support you no matter wat
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I'll second that.fire_rescue wrote:i still support you no matter wat
From what I just read there's nothing wrong coz you aren't gaining a profit and you aren't relating any info to individuals and most importantly you aren't a business.
Mitch Rogers
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
its this one that is most likely
c) it provides a benefit, service or advantage to collect personal information about another individual from anyone else (unless it does so with the consent of the individual concerned or is required or authorised to do so under legislation)
c) it provides a benefit, service or advantage to collect personal information about another individual from anyone else (unless it does so with the consent of the individual concerned or is required or authorised to do so under legislation)
Cheers
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
Yeah good site, im supporting you as well BG.
Pretty much what I think it is. Is the government have managed to get the address from an emergency service database.
Anyway I am sure shane will be recieving information from the member who I believe didnt intentionally cause it, but it was just a mistake.
But of course others may think differently...
Pretty much what I think it is. Is the government have managed to get the address from an emergency service database.
Anyway I am sure shane will be recieving information from the member who I believe didnt intentionally cause it, but it was just a mistake.
But of course others may think differently...
Daniel
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Maybe,bodyguard wrote:its this one that is most likely
c) it provides a benefit, service or advantage to collect personal information about another individual from anyone else (unless it does so with the consent of the individual concerned or is required or authorised to do so under legislation)
The only way i can think of it is their relating the services to be an individual.
Mitch Rogers
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
Sorry mate, hope you get it back up and running. I had it as one of my favourites and was always good for an interesting readbodyguard wrote:Due to a possibility of privacy breach, I am now closing down cabscan site until further notice.
Some person has made a complaint re my site.
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If I get the ok from the privacy commission I will start my site again.
cheers
BG
Does anyone else have one up (tho I spose now they'll wanna keep it on the down low
Good luck, am sure you'll be ok from ACA
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Alot of guys on here have their own pager stream setup however they just run it from home and its not uploaded to the net.Colonel wrote:Sorry mate, hope you get it back up and running. I had it as one of my favourites and was always good for an interesting readbodyguard wrote:Due to a possibility of privacy breach, I am now closing down cabscan site until further notice.
Some person has made a complaint re my site.
....
If I get the ok from the privacy commission I will start my site again.
cheers
BG
Does anyone else have one up (tho I spose now they'll wanna keep it on the down low
Good luck, am sure you'll be ok from ACA
Shane Logan
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
Mine was all run from home, now its goneAlot of guys on here have their own pager stream setup however they just run it from home and its not uploaded to the net.
Cheers
BG
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Any progress???bodyguard wrote:Mine was all run from home, now its goneAlot of guys on here have their own pager stream setup however they just run it from home and its not uploaded to the net.
Mitch Rogers
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Stretch wrote:Any progress???bodyguard wrote:Mine was all run from home, now its goneAlot of guys on here have their own pager stream setup however they just run it from home and its not uploaded to the net.
Just waiting on return of email from the Privacy Commission
Cheers
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
The Privacy Commission has decided not to take any action against my site.
As it has been shut down, but they will now close the file on my site.
But they stipulated if they received any complaints they will reopen the case.
Guess I was lucky, but my site will NOT be open to public access again.
Sorry to all those that enjoyed it, but an action by a individual has now closed it for the rest.
As it has been shut down, but they will now close the file on my site.
But they stipulated if they received any complaints they will reopen the case.
Guess I was lucky, but my site will NOT be open to public access again.
Sorry to all those that enjoyed it, but an action by a individual has now closed it for the rest.
Cheers
BG
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Re: Cabscan Now Closing
BG,
Its good to hear that they are not taking any action on it.. maybe you will need to put it on a password protected website and be careful who you pass that privilage onto..
Good to hear its closed
Glenn
Its good to hear that they are not taking any action on it.. maybe you will need to put it on a password protected website and be careful who you pass that privilage onto..
Good to hear its closed
Glenn
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Good to hear they are not taking action
Cheers
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