The addresses of more than 500,000 organisations including defence sites, a missile maintenance unit and domestic violence shelters were inadvertently made public in the first major breach of the NSW government’s massive trove of QR code data.
The locations, collected by the NSW Department of Customer Service when businesses and organisations registered as COVID-safe to access a QR code for staff and customers to check in, were discovered on a NSW data website in September by technology specialist Skeeve Stevens. COVID-safe registration was open to all businesses, including those in other states and territories that had interests in NSW. Locations in Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT were also in the dataset seen by this masthead.
But Mr Stevens, who works in the security and intelligence space, said the database could have been used for “bad things” if the wrong people had got hold of it.
That's why I NEVER sign in. My data cannot be trusted in the hands of government. They are an incompetent bunch that seem to stuff everything they do up
My god if this was premier andrews every paper in sydney and elsewhere would be going nuts, funny you are not now what a surprise. NOT
These are made to look like human error when in fact they are deliberate
Just when you think the incompetence of NSW government agencies couldn't get any worse... it does. And of course the minister will not be held accountable.
.... because businesses want to hide. That's how they attract customers, by not being found.
getting the address of the airport idiot has use
All business addresses are public. See ASIC website
Thanks.
Who could have possibly seen this happening? Voluntarily logging your movements for the government was always what the outrageously stupid people did.
This is why I never scanned in, glad I made the right choice
Don’t QR code. Simple.