A woman who has been protesting a pipeline says that Melbourne Water will publically apologise to her for collecting her personal information, ABC News reports. The woman said, "It has now set a precedent that you cannot treat people in that fashion...Even if you're a large government agency, you must abide by the law. You cannot do those things."
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