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Australia: 'Triple-0' Data Wrong

Michael Sainsbury writes on Australian IT:

Details of up to 500,000 Australians are incorrectly recorded on Telstra's triple-0 database, raising fears emergency services could be sent to wrong addresses.

Internal Telstra documents admit that the errors -- including wrong postcodes and phone-number prefixes -- could result in a "critical" situation.

The findings are contained in an internal Telstra report, a copy of which has been obtained by The Australian, that reveals the parlous state of customer information in the company's fixed-line databases.

posted by Fergie @ 3/13/2006 09:24:00 AM