Joseph Brean reports that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) will appeal a ruling of the province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner that it violates the privacy of wine club members by tracking their purchases. The complaint had been filed by an Ontario wine club.
Category: Breaches
Harvard University administrators secretly searched deans’ email accounts, hunting for media leak
Mary Carmichael reports: Harvard University central administrators secretly searched the email accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the school’s sprawling cheating case, according to several Harvard officials interviewed by the Globe. The resident deans sit on Harvard’s Administrative Board, the committee charged with handling the cheating…
Landlady who had tenants under electronic surveillance fears losing home
Breaches have consequences – sometimes. Here’s a case in Ireland where a privacy violator may lose her home. Tim Healy reports: A former landlady who kept a number of student tenants under electronic surveillance fears losing her home due to efforts to enforce judgments of some €115,000 against her and her daughter. In 2007, Rita…
Apple Loses Bid to Dismiss Data Collection Privacy Suit
Joel Rosenblatt reports: Apple Inc. (AAPL) lost its bid to dismiss a privacy lawsuit claiming the company improperly collected and shared customers’ personal information after a judge ruled the iPhone maker violated an order to turn over documents. U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh said in a ruling that she was “disturbed” to learn that…