Tim Naumetz reports: The federal government appears ready to settle a $400,000 lawsuit by veterans advocate Sean Bruyea after Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart’s ruling that the Veterans Affairs Department contravened the Privacy Act by circulating his confidential personal information and medical files. Mr. Bruyea’s lawyer would say only that following a lengthy delay in a…
Alberta's sex sterilizations re-examined
From CBC News: Historians, academics and victims gathered at the University of Alberta on Saturday to re-examine the province’s former eugenics policy. In 1928, the Alberta government passed legislation that allowed the province to medically sterilize people deemed to have mental disabilities. Before the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta was repealed in 1972, more than…
Finger test infringes on privacy right of rape victims
It’s difficult to believe that such things go on in some parts of the world. The finger test examination, conducted on the victims of sexual violence, infringes upon their privacy and is violative of their Constitutional rights, a Delhi court has held. The court stressed the need for sensitising the police to avoid such practice…
UK: Darwen firm’s customer data posted online
Catherine Pye reports: Crown Paints could be fined for data breaches after publishing personal details of hundreds of customers online. Enquiries and complaints entered this year on Crown’s Decorating Centre website, featuring home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses were made public after an internet hitch on Friday morning. The Darwen-based company is now being…
Tempering justice with mercy?
A number of people have commented on Twitter and on this blog that the young man who was arrested for breaching the Houston Healthcare database should have been thanked and/or hired. If this were 1983, I might agree with them, but I found myself taking a harder line about the breach as it was not…
Nigerian national sentenced to 102 months for role in airline ticket scam
Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was sentenced this week to 102 months in prison for using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from U.S. citizens. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady also ordered Adegoke to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term. The defendant has agreed to…