Canadian Insurance Company Snooped On Jurors Insurance Claims During Trial
from the that-seems-bad dept
We've seen it over and over again -- when people have access to large databases of information, it's almost impossible for them to resist the temptation to abuse the info. The latest example comes via Michael Scott, who points us to the news that the Insurance Corporation of B.C. (ICBC) was caught checking its own database to examine the claim histories of potential jurors in a trial in which the company was involved. Not surprisingly, this is a massive breach of Canadian privacy laws and also raises questions about the jury itself. The judge in the case is now trying to find out if ICBC has done this in other cases as well. ICBC seems to be bending over backwards to say this won't happen again and that it's put in place safeguards, but it's not clear why it happened in the first place.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Filed Under: canada, insurance, jury, snooping
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Business As Usual
2) Why is the privacy of the employee who performed the access more important than that of the victims ?
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No Surprise...
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Blackberries in the courtroom
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Re: Blackberries in the courtroom
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Re: ICBC
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I know how to stop this
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Really, it's not clear to you? It's pretty clear to me.
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Michael Scott
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