Sentences with phrase «impact of the privacy breach»

While the OPC initiated its own complaint, it also received 339 complaints from individuals who cited concerns about the impact of the privacy breach on their personal lives including loss of employment, reputational damage and personal safety.

Not exact matches

Cybersecurity breaches may cause disruptions and impact each Fund's business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses; interference with each Fund's ability to calculate its NAV; impediments to trading; the inability of each Fund, the adviser, and other service providers to transact business; violations of applicable privacy and other laws; regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, or additional compliance costs; as well as the inadvertent release of confidential information.

Another area where concerns about privacy breaches have had an impact is in the field of cyber-insurance.

[106] It is therefore difficult to conceive a s. 8 breach with a greater impact on the Charter - protected privacy interests of the accused than occurred in this case.

Given the scale of the data breach, the sensitivity of the information involved, the impact on affected individuals and the international reach of ALM's business, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner jointly investigated ALM's privacy practices at the time of the data breach and on Aug. 22, 2016, published a detailed and damning report that found ALM had contravened the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act in myriaPrivacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner jointly investigated ALM's privacy practices at the time of the data breach and on Aug. 22, 2016, published a detailed and damning report that found ALM had contravened the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act in myriaprivacy practices at the time of the data breach and on Aug. 22, 2016, published a detailed and damning report that found ALM had contravened the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act in myriad ways.

Fines can be up to $ 10 million ($ 15 million) or 2 % of global revenue, whichever is greater, for offences such as not having records in order, failing to notify a supervising authority of a privacy breach, or not conducting an impact assessment.

In September, the government released proposed Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations giving more information about amendments from the Digital Privacy Act that impact Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

revenue, whichever is greater, for offences such as not having records in order, failing to notify a supervising authority of a privacy breach, or not conducting an impact assessment.

Some of the most common are wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, violations of the Family Medical Leave Act, violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, Violations of the California Family Rights Act, privacy breaches (e.g. disclosure of a medical condition to someone who did not need to know), contract breaches, unfair bargaining and / or union and labor law disputes, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, failure to pay minimum wage for all hours worked, failure to provide proper pay stubs, failure to pay for unused vacation days upon resignation or termination, failure to pay for all hours worked within 72 hours of quitting, failure to pay for all hours worked immediately upon leaving when the employee gives fair notice or resignation to the employer, failure to keep adequate records, failure to produce employment records upon request, failure to provide wage and pay information upon hiring, misclassification of an hourly employee as an exempt employee, misclassification of an hourly employee as an independent contractor, work place bullying, sexual harassment, disparate impact, disparate treatment, class actions for failure to pay wages and over time, class actions for failure to provide meal and rest breaks, and class actions for failure to reimburse employees for expenses.

The SCC based this conclusion on the basis that the «breach was not high on the scale of seriousness, and its impact was attenuated by both the diminished privacy interest and the discoverability of the evidence.»

The plaintiff claimed that these actions were a breach of his privacy, was a vulnerability that exposed his information to third party hackers, and caused the laptop to be unfit for any online use, as well as negatively impacting performance and battery life.

We believe it would be insufficient to attend only to individuals» privacy «rights» since some of the harms that could result from a breach of privacy, such as stigmatization, and discrimination in employment or insurance, may not be tied directly to an individuals» «rights,» but would have a significant impact on their welfare.

The insurance industry must also be alert to the fact that there are multiple potential benefits linked to big data analytics and processes, but there are also a number of growing risks, such as privacy issues and cyber threats, which may have a significant reputational impact on the insurer and the sector if they were to materialise, apart from other consequences attached to regulatory breaches.

The impact of the breach on the accused's Charter - protected interests, even assuming that his reasonable expectation of privacy was reduced because it was a workplace computer, was significant given the extent of the intrusion into his privacy.

«The impact of these decisions, post Spokeo, is the encouragement of FCRA, data breach and other privacy - related class - action litigation where no evident harm is yet suffered by plaintiffs,» said Vu Do, vice president of compliance at PreCheck, a leading background screening provider for the health care industry.

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