More from CanWest on a Canadian breach reported yesterday: A B.C. government employee under investigation for an alleged privacy breach is accused of e-mailing personal data about government clients to an American border guard in Washington state. Government sources confirmed Friday that the employee, who works from the Lower Mainland for the Ministry of Housing…
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Ca: B.C. civil servant accused of e-mail privacy breach
Rob Shaw reports: The B.C. government is investigating an employee who is accused of e-mailing sensitive government information across the border to someone in the United States. The privacy breach centres on an employee in the Ministry of Housing and Social Development, who is accused of accessing personal e-mail on a government computer and sending…
Google to abide with Swiss court ruling
Google will comply with an expected Swiss court ruling into whether its Street View web service fails to protect people’s privacy by showing their faces and licence plates, the company and Swiss authorities said. The company is accused of failing to obscure such sensitive images from its photo mapping application sufficiently and setting cameras at…
The Netherlands promises transparancy regarding wiretapping
Ot van Daalen writes: The Dutch Minister of Justice promised on 26 November 2009 at the request of the Dutch Parliament to provide more transparency regarding wiretapping. The Dutch government is placing relatively many taps on a per-capita basis, compared to other countries. During a debate in the Parliament, members of Parliament voiced their concerns…