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My question involves civil rights in the State of North Carolina.
If y'all need more information feel free to ask. I really want to get to the bottom of this. Do those of us on probation have any privacy at all?
It has been my experience that many Americans believe that much more information about them is protected by some privacy law than is truly the case. The reality is that a lot of information about you is not protected by any privacy law. The federal Privacy Act of 1974 on applies to records about you that are held by federal government agencies. It does not appear that North Carolina has a similar privacy law that applies to state and local agencies. It does have an open records law that permits any person to get a wide variety of records from state and local government agencies (much like the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows any person to get records from federal agencies). That law expressly provides that the following are public records:

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, and unless otherwise prohibited by law, the following information shall be public records within the meaning of G.S. 132-1.
(1) The time, date, location, and nature of a violation or apparent violation of the law reported to a public law enforcement agency.
(2) The name, sex, age, address, employment, and alleged violation of law of a person arrested, charged, or indicted.
(3) The circumstances surrounding an arrest, including the time and place of the arrest, whether the arrest involved resistance, possession or use of weapons, or pursuit, and a description of any items seized in connection with the arrest.
(4) The contents of "911" and other emergency telephone calls received by or on behalf of public law enforcement agencies, except for such contents that reveal the natural voice, name, address, telephone number, or other information that may identify the caller, victim, or witness. In order to protect the identity of the complaining witness, the contents of "911" and other emergency telephone calls may be released pursuant to this section in the form of a written transcript or altered voice reproduction; provided that the original shall be provided under process to be used as evidence in any relevant civil or criminal proceeding.
(5) The contents of communications between or among employees of public law enforcement agencies that are broadcast over the public airways.
(6) The name, sex, age, and address of a complaining witness.

NC G.S. § 132-1.4(c). So, if the information provided to your father is described above, the parole office not only was allowed to disclose it, it would have been required to disclose it upon a proper request by any person. That being the case, the parole officer would not need (and indeed should not ask) who it was that was seeking the information. Even if it was not information described above, the parole officer likely was allowed to disclose it since I see no NC law that would make any part of your criminal record, court records (unless sealed by court order) or parole issues private information that the parole office could not release.