The scandal involving nude pictures of St. Kilda footballers continues to grab front page news in Australia. Members of the team have firmly denied that the photos were taken by the girl who has been uploading them. Rather, they assert, the pictures were taken in a hotel room by a team member while others were…
Category: Breaches
CRTC announces that Bell Canada has paid a $1.3 million penalty for violating the National Do Not Call List Rules
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has reached a settlement with Bell Canada over the company’s unauthorized telemarketing practices. The CRTC has issued a notice of violation, and Bell Canada has paid an administrative monetary penalty of $1.3 million to the Receiver General for Canada. Between January and October of this year, calls were made to consumers…
Ca: Credit rating agency dinged $5,000 for privacy breach
Tonda MacCharles reports: In a judicial first, a federal court judge has ordered TransUnion of Canada Inc. to pay $5,000 in damages to a Calgary man whose loan application was turned down after another individual’s credit history was wrongly passed onto the bank. Federal Court Justice Russel Zinn found the privacy breach and repeated failures…
Will a ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’ Include the Right to Class Action Lawsuits?
Kashmir Hill follows up on the recent Commerce Department report by posing an interesting question, whether: … if this framework is established, people should have the right to pursue class-action lawsuits against companies that violate the law, or if enforcement should be limited to action by the FTC. Here’s the relevant graf from page 29…