Ryan Berger of Bull Housser writes: The BC Court of Appeal has affirmed the Chambers Judge’s decision in Ari v. ICBC 2015 BCCA 468. In this case, the putative plaintff advanced a proposed class action claim, alleging an ICBC employee misused personal information of 65 customers. The plaintiff alleged vicarious liability for breach of the statutory tort of invasion…
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KR: Credit card firms ordered to compensate consumers for data leak
The Korea Herald reports the latest development in a massive data leak first reported at the end of 2013: A local court on Friday ordered three credit card-related companies, hit by a massive data leak in 2014, to give 100,000 won ($83) to each victim, a ruling that could set a precedent for other similar…
Alleged Scotiabank privacy breach leads to class action
The Chronicle Herald reports: An Antigonish woman has filed a proposed class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia, alleging an employee illegally accessed her personal information and then distributed it to third parties. Linda Matthews Mont filed the action in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in September 2014, alleging that at some point before March…
TW: Siliconware Precision Industries engineer probed over suspected data theft
Julian Ho and Jessie Shen report: Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau has received a request from Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) to investigate an engineer suspected of stealing confidential company data. According to SPIL, unusual activities were detected within the company’s intranet. In order to protect the company’s confidential data and information, SPIL has therefore submitted a request…
Ca: Nurse accused of snooping into patient records loses bid for secret hearing
Theresa Boyle reports: A nurse accused of invading patients’ privacy by snooping into their medical records has lost her bid to have her disciplinary hearing held in secret. A disciplinary panel of the College of Nurses of Ontario denied Mandy Edgerton-Reid’s request to exclude the public, including the media, from a hearing into allegations that…
In: Police Detain Engineering Student for OUAT Website Hacking
The New Indian Express reports: The Commissionerate of Police on Monday tracked down a student of a private engineering college for allegedly hacking the official website of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT). The student, a self-confessed ethical hacker, was identified after police traced his internet protocol (IP) address and proceeded to zero in…