The welfare agency is asking police to trawl through people’s metadata and in some cases crack their passwords to find out if they’re in a relationship.
Centrelink is asking police to trawl through clients’ metadata and in some circumstances crack their passwords to find out if they’re in a secret relationship.
In some cases, police will seize a person’s phone and use password-cracking software to read messages to determine if someone claiming to be single is actually involved in a relationship with their housemate. , former DHS deputy secretary Malisa Golightly in 2015 sought the retention of “enforcement agency” powers, enabling it to seek access to telecommunications databases to find out names and addresses linked with certain phone numbers.
The robo-debt scheme – which used the illegitimate method of income averaging to calculate alleged government debts owed by welfare recipients – was declared unlawful by a Federal Court judge in 2019, and a class action produced a $1.8 billion settlement. James Clark, executive director of pro-privacy charity Digital Rights Watch, said the practices were a serious case of overreach by Services Australia.
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