The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has reached a settlement with Bell Canada over the company’s unauthorized telemarketing practices. The CRTC has issued a notice of violation, and Bell Canada has paid an administrative monetary penalty of $1.3 million to the Receiver General for Canada. Between January and October of this year, calls were made to consumers…
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Ca: Credit rating agency dinged $5,000 for privacy breach
Tonda MacCharles reports: In a judicial first, a federal court judge has ordered TransUnion of Canada Inc. to pay $5,000 in damages to a Calgary man whose loan application was turned down after another individual’s credit history was wrongly passed onto the bank. Federal Court Justice Russel Zinn found the privacy breach and repeated failures…
Viviane Reding takes on US over data privacy rights in anti-terror campaign
Leigh Phillips reports: The EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has confronted Washington over data protection rights in the fight against terror, accusing the US of being interested only in accessing European citizens’ bank records and flight schedules but not in protecting their rights while doing so. Today Reding complained that at a meeting in Washington…
Google deletes last of UK wifi data
Tom Chivers reports: Google has deleted all of the data collected from unsecured British wifi networks, six months after the problem was discovered. The search engine giant admitted in May that it had been collecting data from unprotected networks, in breach of the Data Protection Act. Its Streetview cars had been collecting information transmitted over…