--- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:30:52 -0500 To: declanat_private From: Michael Geist <mgeistat_private> Subject: Canadian police recover missing hard drive Of possible interest -- http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/04/diskdrive_030204 MG -- ********************************************************************** Professor Michael A. Geist University of Ottawa Law School, Common Law Section Technology Counsel, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP 57 Louis Pasteur St., P.O. Box 450, Stn. A, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 Tel: 613-562-5800, x3319 Fax: 613-562-5124 mgeistat_private http://www.lawbytes.ca --- From: David Akin <dakinat_private> To: "'Declan McCullagh'" <declanat_private> Subject: IBM's missing hard disk Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:43:22 -0500 Hey Declan --- Up here in the far north, we've been paying a lot of attention to a hard disk that went missing from an IBM facility in Regina on January 16. It contained personal financial and/or health records on more than 1 million Canadians, including the portfolios and accounts numbers for 750,000 customers of Canada's largest mutual fund company. This afternoon, police in Regina, Saskatchewan, said they found the disk and charges are pending. We don't know what they might charge the person with. If it's theft, the a hard-drive is only worth a few hundred bucks so what would the penalty be? There are some arcane 'electronic tampering' laws up here that carry stiffer sentences but the police seem to think the person who took the disk didn't access the data, therefore, did they tamper? A class action lawsuit has also been filed on behalf of those Canadians who had data on the disk. Anyhow, for Politech folks interested in what's being dubbed Canada's biggest privacy disaster, here's some links. Missing hard drive recovered [Full story at: http://tinyurl.com/5ck6] Missing computer disk spurs suit A class-action lawsuit was launched yesterday over a computer hard-disk drive that went missing from ISM Canada that included confidential data affecting more than one million people. [Full story: http://tinyurl.com/5ck5] Data processing star faces tough privacy questions ... IBM Canada Ltd. of Markham, Ont., must deal with some embarrassing questions about its ability to protect sensitive customer information. On Jan. 16, during a routine upgrade of a computer in ISM's Regina facility, a computer hard drive went missing and police are investigating . .. [Full story at: http://tinyurl.com/5cjt] David Akin ----------------- CTV News The Globe and Mail ----------------- Office: 416.313.2503 Mobile: 416.528.3819 ----------------- Complete Contact Information at http://www.davidakin.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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