Hamish McNeilly provides yet another example of how “small” breaches can cause great harm or distress for individuals: A Dunedin man says he is living in fear after a Family Court privacy breach resulted in his address being sent to his brother, who had allegedly threatened to kill him. The Family Court has apologised for…
Category: Breaches
UK: Family’s house swap fails after housing company breaches data protection laws
Jon Sharman reports: A Chessington family’s house move was scuppered when a housing company breached data protection laws by sharing information about the family with a third party. Paragon Community Housing was judged by a government watchdog to have breached the Data Protection Act by telling a prospective house swapper of anti-social noise complaints against Edd Denim’s…
KY: Jefferson County Public Schools teachers upset after being named in union’s political ad
Antoinette Konz reports: Some Jefferson County teachers are upset after their names were included without their knowledge in a political advertisement sent to approximately 50,000 voters by the Jefferson County Teachers Association. The advertisement – mailed by Better Schools Kentucky, the union’s political action committee – uses the name of 14 award winning teachers in Jefferson…
Ca: EMSB denies breach of voter privacy in school board election
Anne Leclair reports: The English Montreal School Board is denying that it provided a confidential list of phone numbers to one of Angela Mancini‘s candidates. The school board elections at the EMSB have been particularly hard fought this year. Our own Global reporter, Domenic Fazioli says he got a call from a candidate on his private cell number. If it…