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Still no date for tabling of Australia's mandatory data breach laws
The Register Data breach notification has been on and off the agenda for years: it landed briefly in 2013 before an election got in the way; the Abbott government abandoned the idea in June 2014, then an inquiry put it back on the table; and after languishing, it … |
The typo itself – an Associated Press story reported that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1965 instead of 1865 – was just that, a typo, as even a middle-schooler knows our 16th president never lived to hear the Beatles.
However, among journalists of a certain age (mine), the distressing though not unexpected aspect of the miscue was that the erroneous date made it onto so many prestigious news sites. As a 1970s-era college friend of mine put it in an email subject line: “Copy editing was a fine profession …”
Meaning that back before the near-extinction of copy editors, it would have been unlikely that the Associated Press would have allowed such a gaffe, never mind that it would have gone unnoticed by so many AP-subscriber news organizations.
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