Privacy

Is Veterans Affairs Canada Targeting This Family?

Topics: 
Veterans Affairs, Privacy, Reprisals
Rating: 
0

Jeff Rose-Martland – November 23, 2012

The brother of a veteran suing Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) for millions says his personal records were accessed by department staff without his permission.

Retired Corporal Dennis Manuge is the driving force behind the SISIP class action lawsuit over pension clawbacks. The suit is now under settlement negotiations and could cost government in excess of $600 million. Last year, Manuge revealed that, in 2009, the Minister of Veterans Affairs was briefed on private details of his medical conditions and finances.

Veterans Affairs manager who probed privacy breach praised by superiors for minimizing impact on staff

Topics: 
Veterans Affairs, Privacy
Rating: 
3

David Publiese – November 13, 2012

A Veterans Affairs manager who investigated his colleagues during a probe into one of Canada’s largest privacy breaches was thanked by a senior bureaucrat for the way he ensured that the impact on staff was minimized, according to newly released documents.

That has prompted the Ottawa veteran at the centre of the scandal, former Canadian Forces officer Sean Bruyea, to label the 2010 in-house investigation a farce and to call on government to do more to ensure the personal information of retired military personnel is safeguarded.

Rupert Murdoch calls phone-hacking campaigners 'scumbag celebrities'

Topics: 
Freedom of the press, Privacy, UK, Wealthy elites
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0

Alexandra Topping – October 14, 2012

Rupert Murdoch has labelled victims of phone hacking "scumbag celebrities" after they met David Cameron during the Conservative party conference.

On Saturday night Murdoch took to Twitter to criticise the talks in Birmingham between the prime minister and members of the Hacked Off campaign, singer Charlotte Church, former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames and actor Hugh Grant.

Vast FDA effort tracked emails of whistleblowing scientists

Topics: 
USA, Reprisals, Regulatory oversight, Health care, Privacy
Rating: 
2

Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane – July 14, 2012

A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to members of Congress, lawyers, labor officials, journalists and even President Obama, previously undisclosed records show.

What began as a narrow investigation into the possible leaking of confidential agency information by five scientists quickly grew in mid-2010 into a much broader campaign to counter outside critics of the agency’s medical review process, according to the cache of more than 80,000 pages of computer documents generated by the surveillance effort.

Privacy watchdog says Saskatchewan needs to protect whistleblowers

Topics: 
Legislation, Privacy, Saskatchewan
Rating: 
4
Gary Dickson

Jennifer Graham – June 26, 2012

Saskatchewan's privacy commissioner says the province needs to create whistleblower protection rules. Gary Dickson said every year about half a dozen public-sector employees contact his office to report possible breaches.

Dickson said in his annual report Tuesday that in some cases, it is covering up a loss of personal information of clients or patients. In others it may be destruction of records to frustrate a possible access to information request, he said. But those workers aren't protected and Dickson said his office has to tell them to proceed at their own risk.

Privacy watchdog probes Veterans Affairs – again

Topics: 
Government ethics, Veterans Affairs, Privacy, Watchdogs
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0

The Canadian Press – May 3, 2012

The privacy watchdog is looking at whether a Veterans Affairs investigation of a breach of privacy actually involved another breach of privacy.

The department hired an outside contractor, Amprax Inc., to look at how personal information about veterans advocate Sean Bruyea ended up in a ministerial briefing note in 2006.

Vets advocate revives privacy war with feds

Topics: 
Sean Bruyea, Veterans Affairs, Privacy
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Murray Brewster – May 28, 2012

A veterans advocate has complained to the privacy watchdog about an internal report that largely exonerates federal bureaucrats who spread around his personal medical information.

The Veterans Affairs investigation into Sean Bruyea’s case has revived questions about how seriously the Harper government has treated breaches of privacy of ex-soldiers.

Internal review absolves bureaucrats who violated privacy of veterans

Topics: 
Veterans Affairs, Privacy
Rating: 
4

Murray Brewster – May 27, 2012

An independent investigator who reviewed privacy violations at Veterans Affairs Canada told the Harper government in late 2010 it was appropriate to include the personal medical information of an outspoken advocate in briefing material, say internal federal documents.

The central finding of the Amprax Inc. review flies in the face of the country's privacy watchdog, who concluded almost two years ago that two briefing notes sprinkled with the references to well-known critic Sean Bruyea's psychiatric reports broke the law.

Keyboard Cops: latest USA internet spying bill

Topics: 
USA, Privacy, Internet
Rating: 
0

Naomi Wolf – May 2, 2012

Almost no one had read the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) before it was rushed through the United States House of Representatives in late April and sent to the Senate. CISPA is the successor to SOPA, the 'anti-piracy' bill that was recently defeated after an outcry from citizens and Internet companies.

SOPA, framed by its proponents in terms of protecting America's entertainment industry from theft, would have shackled content providers and users, and spawned copycat legislation around the world, from Canada and the United Kingdom to Israel and Australia.

BC Government’s ‘cradle-to-grave profile of each citizen’

Topics: 
Privacy
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0

BC FIPA – April 25, 2012

Controversy is growing over the BC government’s new $182 million
Integrated Case Management (ICM) system now being rolled out
across BC.

The ICM system will create a database of unprecedented scope and
detail about the lives of people using government services, and allow
the government to share that information almost at will.

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