It appears that last night personal information about my Australian visa was leaked from the Department of Home Affairs to a radical left-wing blog. Dates, purposes, notes from officials and perhaps more I have not seen yet.
The government have a duty under the privacy act to ensure everyone's documentations are handled with care. Yet it appears this breach occurred, possibly because of a radical working within the government with access to information or due to another weakness in security.
Such leaks put my family and my child in danger. It wasn’t even leaked to a mainstream outlet, it was leaked to an extremist outlet with an editor who refers to himself proudly as a “communist” and “ASIO target”.
I don’t know if they have the names of my family members now. I don’t know if they have my address. I’m terrified they might. I do know that they have the ability to get more information if they can access leaks like this.
Even if you disagree with me politically, how do we know if anyone else’s information put forward to the government isn’t being handled in a similar manner? Are the documents of other immigrants being thrown around and leaked?
I am happily and peacefully raising my son in this country with my wonderful husband. I am not a threat. The possibility of radicals working within government with access to all your information breaching legal protocol are though. I’m deeply disturbed by all of this.
It's already out there, so I suppose I'll post evidence. Luckily they haven't put further details. What else do they have in these leaked documents though? They have the details of my initial visitor applications. They have officers notes. This is insane. They have grant dates.
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