New Zealand’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is using the U.S. Office of Personal Management breach to highlight how “data is not created equal.” An OPC blog post states, “If you’ve had a security clearance in New Zealand, or know someone that has, you’ll know that it’s not just your personal information tied up in a clearance. They ask questions of and about multiple people that you know. So those 21.5 million records possibly contain information about even more people.” Then there’s the news that more than 5.6 million fingerprints were stolen. “We are reminded that all data is not created equal because some personal information is more personal than others,” the report states. Meanwhile, Kmart Australia announced a recent theft of customer information.
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