Charles Rusnell reports: Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro is the subject of another privacy breach complaint — his second in a month — after his political staff accessed and released billing information from an Edmonton clinic to rebut allegations made during an NDP news conference. The billing information had been anonymized — stripped of data that could…
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Possible privacy breach at Pickering long-term care home hard-hit by coronavirus
Ryan Rocca reports: A possible privacy breach has been reported at a Pickering long-term care home that’s been hard-hit by a novel coronavirus outbreak. Long-term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton said the possible breach is regarding “individual resident personal health info” at Orchard Villa long-term care. A spokesperson for the home confirmed to Global News that an internal…
Police Use Drones To Monitor The Homeless And Check People’s Temperatures
At what point will you read something about monitoring for COVID-19 that will just cross whatever line you have for being unacceptable surveillance? Joe Cadillic writes: All across the country, law enforcement is using the pandemic as an excuse to use Chinese-made drones to monitor the public. Which breaks EVERY promise law enforcement has ever…
Geolocation Data and COVID-19: Argentina’s Data Protection Authority Issues Guidance
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Argentina’s data protection authority has issued guidance on processing geolocation data in the context of the COVID-19 health emergency. All information referring to the location of a person and/or their movements constitutes personal data. Location data is defined as information collected by a network or service about where the user’s phone or…