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Showing posts with label Privacy Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privacy Act. Show all posts

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: 'Putting up a wall of shame is an act of desperation'


Okay, do you want to hear something straight out of the "you would have been better off just saying absolutely nothing" file? This one's from the Privacy Commissioner.

Michael Webster has warned small retailers, such as dairies, about putting up "walls of shame" featuring people they say have shoplifted from them. You know the ones. You go into the dairy and there's a mood board of dodgy-looking people in trackies, snapped by CCTV, usually stuck up on a wall or window close to the counter.