Michael Geist discusses two recent cases in Canada, where it seems that citizens have problems similar to what Americans experience in trying to secure damage awards for privacy violations: When privacy violations occur, the first reaction for many victims is to search for a way to stop the offending conduct. The second response may be…
Category: Breaches
Jp: ‘Leaked MPD data’ out as book
This breach, originally mentioned on my companion blog at databreaches.net, just gets worse and worse: A Tokyo publishing house has released a book containing what are believed to be Metropolitan Police Department antiterrorism documents that were leaked onto the Internet last month. Released by Dai-San Shokan Thursday, the book contains the personal information of Muslim…
Did courthouse personnel leak sensitive personal info in Gibson custody case?
I seem to have missed this one, but Alan Duke reported a leak involving sensitive files in the Mel Gibson custody case. Not that I particularly care about Gibson or the case, but if the documents were leaked from courthouse personnel, that’s really of concern: The judge overseeing the Mel Gibson child custody case ordered…
AU: Internet and privacy head PS breaches
Markus Mannheim reports: Almost 600 federal bureaucrats breached their professional code of conduct last year. The latest State of the Service report, issued yesterday, shows misusing the internet and improperly accessing private records remain the most common violations of the Public Service Act. Government agencies carried out 970 investigations in 2009-10, of which three in…