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…
Category: Court
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…
Barnes & Noble Reassures Customers That It Has Never Shared Credit Card Information with Discount Clubs
From Dow Jones Newswires: Barnes and Noble Inc. (BKS) confirmed it received a subpoena involving an investigation into alleged online retail fraud, although the company stressed it doesn’t turn over personal or credit-card information to online discount clubs. “Customers should be reassured that their personal information, including credit- and debit-card information is not and never…