The Independent reports on a case in Ireland: A High Court judgment is expected to be given this week after an insurance company appealed against an award of €15,000 damages to a man over a breach of his data protection rights, writes Colm Kelpie. FBD Insurance did not pay out on a claim relating to a…
Category: Breaches
Ontario liquor board to appeal ruling after privacy commissioner ordered LCBO to destroy wine club records
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.
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…