Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: A “Do not call” register that would prohibit telemarketers making unsolicited sales calls and a law that would oblige government agencies to tell people if their personal information had been lost or stolen are among a raft of ideas to tighten privacy law canvassed by the Law Commission. In a 500-page report,…
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Privacy rules halted investigation of rogue scientists
Margaret Munro reports: The federal government has been pushing Canada’s largest research council to release the names of scientists who fudge research results, plagiarize reports or misspend grant money, according to federal documents obtained by Canwest News Service. But the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has yet to change its rules, despite pointed recommendations…
UCLU apologise for releasing ISoc and RUMS Isoc personal information
Andrew de Castro reports: James Hodgson, UCLU [University College London Union] Student Activities Officer, admitted that “mistakes were made” when mobile phone numbers and email addresses of Islamic Society and Medical Islamic Society members were released to Anti-Terror Police, without a legal requirement to do so. The data was released in connection with the alleged…
Privacy ‘zealots’ compound a family’s torment
Linda Diebel reports on a case where privacy laws have frustrated parents desperately trying to find their daughter, who disappeared while in Syria: A federal official was on the phone last October, telling Kathryn Murray something so utterly outrageous regarding her missing daughter, the distraught Toronto mother almost lost it right there. It’s the kind…