The Newfoundland and Labrador Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner recently released a report investigating a breach involving a stolen laptop containing student information. From the summary: On 3 November 2008 Eastern School District (“ESD”) notified this Office that a break-in had occurred at a teacher’s home and the teacher’s laptop computer containing the…
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Ca: Privacy rules likely breached: commissioner
Gary Kean reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner says it is likely there was an intentional breach of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act with respect to the disclosure of personal information contained in the Town of Steady Brook’s records nearly two years ago. However, in his report released…
AU: Fury at Telstra over phone privacy breach
Ruth Lamperd reports: Telstra is under fire for a serious privacy breach after a Melbourne man’s personal contact list ended up on another man’s brand new iPhone. Nathan Fallon was given an iPhone as a gift two days before Christmas and was shocked to find it already contained 182 contact names and numbers. Staff at…
UK, Germany raise concerns about airport scanners
Alan Travis reports: The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned. Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have called for safeguards to…