More from CanWest on a Canadian breach reported yesterday: A B.C. government employee under investigation for an alleged privacy breach is accused of e-mailing personal data about government clients to an American border guard in Washington state. Government sources confirmed Friday that the employee, who works from the Lower Mainland for the Ministry of Housing…
Category: Breaches
Ca: B.C. civil servant accused of e-mail privacy breach
Rob Shaw reports: The B.C. government is investigating an employee who is accused of e-mailing sensitive government information across the border to someone in the United States. The privacy breach centres on an employee in the Ministry of Housing and Social Development, who is accused of accessing personal e-mail on a government computer and sending…
MO: Physical trainer convicted of secretly videotaping teens
A former physical trainer at St. John’s Hospital was convicted a of sexually exploiting children by secretly videotaping minor females at the hospital’s training facility. Scott Johnson, 30, of Springfield, Mo., was found guilty of eight counts of the sexual exploitation of a child. Johnson was taken into federal custody to await sentencing. Johnson was…
Colo. court: immigrants tax records are private
Ivan Moreno of the Associated Press reports: The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities violated the constitutional and privacy rights of suspected illegal immigrants when they used tax returns to try and build hundreds of identity theft cases against them. The ruling affirmed a decision by a Weld County district judge who suppressed evidence…