Millions of welfare, Medicare files handed to US data giant Iron Mountain

By Noel Towell
Updated September 29 2014 - 8:08am, first published September 28 2014 - 11:30pm
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig
Warehouses hold decades worth of Medicare and Centrelink files. Photo: Peter Braig

Millions of Australians' Centrelink and Medicare files are being handed over to a United States multinational corporation as the federal government closes filing warehouses around the country.

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