Jack Julian reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has ruled Nova Scotia Health violated the privacy of participants in the province’s Driving While Impaired program. A privacy expert in Halifax says it’s an interesting illustration of the complexity of privacy rules when more than one law can come into play. Read more…
Category: Breaches
Berkeley High alum, 19, posted stolen nude photos of underage girls online, police say
This was also posted to DataBreaches.net, but it’s a good reminder for parents to talk to their kids and for schools to educate students about protection. Emilie Raguso reports: A former Berkeley High School student is facing multiple felony charges this week after police say he hacked into the accounts of nine female BHS students,…
Banned Chinese broadcaster CGTN fined £200,000 by UK watchdog over privacy rules breach
Leonie Chao-Fong reports: A Chinese state-owned broadcaster has been fined £200,000 for failing to comply with UK broadcasting rules. Media regulator Ofcom said it had imposed the fine on Star China Media Limited (SCML) “for serious breaches of our fairness and privacy rules on its CCTV and CGTN services”. Read more on The Independent. While there may have been specific privacy rule violations,…
Alibaba Cloud data leak ‘violated Cybersecurity Law’ in 2019 and must rectify, local Chinese telecoms regulator says
Coco Feng reports: The telecoms authority of China’s eastern Zhejiang province has told the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group Holding that it violated the country’s Cybersecurity Law and should make rectifications following a complaint about a 2019 information leak. In a letter dated July 5, the Zhejiang Communications Administration (ZCA) said it found Alibaba Cloud “disclosed…