Australian wealth-advice companies breached privacy laws, watchdog says
( November 25, 2024, 23:16 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Two Australian property-investment advice companies breached privacy laws by scraping data to target vulnerable people, says the country’s privacy watchdog. In a statement today, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said Master Wealth Control and Property Lovers inappropriately collected the personal information of individuals from court lists and databases and failed to take reasonable steps to notify individuals whose information was collected. The companies are both associated with self-styled wealth and property guru Dominique Grubisa.The full statement from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner follows....
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