Joe Callahan reports: Another former employee of the troubled Kids Zone USA day care center has been arrested. Authorities say she signed another woman’s name on several fire inspection reports, and once even hid from the fire inspector in a dark closet. Barbara Kyle, 39, who now lives in Atlanta, turned herself in at the…
Category: Court
Alberta’s privacy czar must justify delays, court rules
Karen Kleiss reports: Alberta’s highest court says the province’s backlogged Information and Privacy Commissioner can no longer take “routine extensions” in privacy cases, a decision that extends to complaints under health and access-to-information laws. In a 2-1 decision released Wednesday, the Court of Appeal said the commissioner can extend the legislated 90-day time limit only…
School Punished Kid for Video, Dad Says
Tish Kraft reports on Courthouse News: A dad says Roseville Joint Union High School District unfairly threw his son off the Granite Bay High School basketball team because the boy produced a parody video about hip-hop music and the youth drug culture and posted it on Youtube. The boy and his friends did the video…
Embarq spied on customers for advertising – lawsuit
Barbara Leonard reports on a federal class action lawsuit filed in Kansas City against two ISPs that allegedly secretly installed “unprecedented, extraordinarily pervasive” spyware on their broadband networks, allowing them to spy on and profile their customers for targeted online advertising. The class claims that from late 2007 to July 2008, Delaware-based Embarq Management and…