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Reading to win YOUNG people in Kingston are being encouraged to turn off their video games, open a book and be in the running for prizes in the Kingston Libraries’ summer reading club. Kingston mayor Cr David Eden said the club – open to children up to 16 - was a great way to keep young people excited about reading during the school break. Prizes include an iPad Mini and vouchers from Westfield and Dymocks. The summer reading club will be launched on Monday 5 December at Cheltenham library, 4pm-5pm. Call 1300 135 668 or see kingston. vic.gov.au/library for further details. Reading club packs are available at kingston.vic.gov.au/library and Kingston libraries. Page turners: Alex, 9, and Eliza, 12, tuck into the summer reading fun at Chelsea Library. Picture: Yanni
Privacy breached by council Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au AN ADMINISTRATIVE mistake had Kingston Council scrambling last week to apologise for a serious breach of ratepayers’ privacy. The names, addresses, dates of birth and contact number for more than
2000 people who were asked to take part in a survey about Kingston’s maternal and child health services were mistakenly sent out in an email to residents who had used the services. One of the recipients of a spreadsheet listing the personal information of 2112 clients is an ABC radio producer so the council privacy breach was quickly reported by the ABC last
Thursday (17 November). Kingston Council CEO John Nevins apologised to all families affected by the inadvertent release of the sensitive information. “We acknowledge that this was an unacceptable privacy breach and are taking immediate action to determine how it occurred and to make sure it never happens again,” Mr Nevins said in a statement.
“We are working closely with the Privacy Commissioner and are set to appoint an independent expert to conduct a full investigation.” The Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, is a federal government appointed bureaucrat responsible for ensuring all levels of government handle data and information in an appropriate way. “We will be keeping the families ful-
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ly informed throughout this process,” Mr Nevins said. It is understood an administrative mix-up led to an excel spreadsheet being accidentally included with an email containing the questionnaire sent out to prospective survey respondents. No financial, medical or children’s details were included in the information mistakenly sent out by council.