PIPEDA Case Summary #2009-017 An advocate for tenants’ rights complained that, without obtaining proper consent, an organization was collecting, using and disclosing sensitive personal information about tenants for various purposes. This personal information was disclosed to the organization’s paying members (i.e., landlords). It was available from the organization’s web site, and, at one point, a…
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Ca: Husband leaked video
Davene Jeffrey reports: Halifax regional school board head Carole Olsen says it was her husband who leaked a video of a principal scuffling with a 14-year-old student at Graham Creighton Junior High School in Cherry Brook. The superintendent, with board chairman Irvine Carvery at her side, told media Friday morning that Christopher Olsen, her partner…
UK: Libel Bill gives ISPs definite 14 day window to act
Existing law says that companies not directly responsible for a message can escape liability for it but only if they take it down ‘expeditiously’ when informed of it. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Lester has proposed a Libel Bill which would set that period at 14 days, or shorter if an application to a court to…
AU: Court uses Facebook to serve paternity test order
Kim Arlington reports: In a case which highlights the difficulties of keeping a low profile when you have a Facebook account, a court has ordered that the social networking site be used to serve legal documents on an elusive father in a child support dispute. The federal magistrate who made the order, Stewart Brown, said…