The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) must pay monetary damages to a client for the disclosure by one of its employees of the client’s account information, the Federal Court of Canada has ruled. The client, Nicole Landry, was going through divorce proceedings. As part of the proceedings, Landry’s husband’s lawyer sent a subpoena to RBC…
Category: Breaches
UK: Disturbing case highlights need for prison to be an option, says Information Commissioner
A press release from the Information Commissioner’s Office indicates the Commissioner wants some insider privacy or data breaches to result in jail terms. While most of the examples he provides have been previously covered on my blogs, he also reveals this disturbing breach: The call for action comes as a bank cashier yesterday pleaded guilty…
National doctor database goes dark over privacy concerns
Jeremy Kohler reports: When a doctor ran into trouble in one state, the solution used to be simple: Move to another state and start over. Before 1990, there was no national tracking of malpractice or disciplinary actions by hospitals, licensing boards or professional societies. That changed after Congress established the National Practitioner Data Bank in…
Comments on DOJ’s Defense of The Broad View of “Exceeds Authorized Access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — And A Proposed Statutory Fix
Orin Kerr writes: In his post below, Stewart Baker writes that DOJ official James Baker “gave a persuasive defense” of the broad view of that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act should apply to Terms of Service violations and employee restrictions on computers. In this post, I want to explain why I don’t find DOJ’s defense…