Snooping Will Cost You!
After a practicum student accessed personal health records of an ex-partner and his new girlfriend on numerous occasions, the Alberta Court ordered a fine of $6,000.00, along with community service.
Work-Home Balance: Privacy Edition
A man tells the privacy commissioner that his former spouse sent and downloaded private and confidential work documents to his email and personal home computer.
The “Data” Exclusion and the Duty to Defend
Silent cyber and the duty to defend. Insurers still struggling to exclude cyber and privacy coverage from liability policies.
Employee Surveillance: What’s “Reasonable”?
When does ensuring workplace safety and productivity become an unreasonable privacy violation?
Is Breach Response Privileged? Perhaps not.
Do litigation privilege and solicitor client privilege apply to post breach documents or forensic reports? The Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner doesn’t seem to think so.
Access Granted: Nunavut Privacy Breach
In this recent decision, the Privacy Commissioner takes the rare step of recommending prosecution of the offending party following a privacy breach. See why.