From the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Office, this legal update: The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has reached a settlement with the Canad Corporation of Manitoba Ltd (Canad Inns), a hotel chain that operates a number of night clubs in Manitoba. This settlement follows legal proceedings stemming from an investigation into the collection of personal information…
Category: Court
Privacy commissioner seeks to block fingerprinting of med-school applicants
Glen McGregor reports that Canada’s privacy commissioner doesn’t want biometric data of Canadians accessible to U.S. authorities under the PATRIOT Act: Canada’s privacy watchdog has gone to court to stop the collection and storage of fingerprints from students who apply to medical schools. Privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart launched legal action in Federal Court last week,…
Nighthawk Energy forces chatroom users into open over ‘defamatory’ posts
Nick Goodway reports: Nighthawk Energy today said it had unmasked online investment chatroom users who targeted it with “persistent defamatory and untrue postings”. The AIM-listed oil company went to court to force the websites advfn.com and iii.co.uk to reveal the identities of anonymous message posters. Following a ruling in the High Court, Nighthawk said: “Both…
Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking
From my heroes at EFF: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today firmly rejected government claims that federal agents have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System (GPS) location-tracking devices on anyone’s car without a search warrant. In United States v. Maynard, FBI agents planted a GPS device on…