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The Canada Revenue Agency never told Canada's privacy watchdog after it learned that someone inside the agency could be sending information to a B.C. gang, CTV News has learned.
Federal government agencies are supposed to report to the Federal Privacy Commissioner as soon as they learn of a potential leak -- but the commissioner's office told CTV News they were never informed.
The CRA, which is responsible for collecting Canadian taxes, is also refusing to confirm that the leak even happened - or how it was dealt with.
"It's obviously scary," said Liberal M.P. Ujjal Dosanjh. "It would comfort people that we knew an investigation is under way -- that's very important."
CTV News learned that in 2007, the CRA discovered an employee was accessing information on behalf of a rival to the United Nations Gang.
Independently, the Abbotsford Police learned of the leak from a wiretap and informed the Canada Revenue Agency.
But the agency is remaining silent on what happened next.
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Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security disclosed that traveler's laptop computers "or other electronic devices" can be confiscated, without any suspicion of a crime! Better yet, they can make and share copies of your data, have the data translated, unencrypted, etc. This is especially topical for me since I'll be leaving the country on Sunday with the laptop that I'm typing this on.
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I found this pretty interesting, to find out names of sources that a journalist talked to about the government's secret wiretapping of Americans without court orders, federal investigators are using phone records. So they look to the phone companies for names to find out who talked to the Times about the investigation into how the Feds used the phone companies to spy on its citizens.
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Oh, boy, has it been another fun week at Facebook. In case you never read back to the beginning of it all, earlier this month the company quietly changed its terms of service, to say that Facebook users were now granting "Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense)" to do whatever it wanted with anything they posted. (The story broke over the weekend because, thought it may take awhile, there are actually people who read terms of service.)
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Wiretaps approved by a secret U.S. court overseeing foreign intelligence rose last year, even as Congress was debating a Bush administration request for more authority to fight terrorism. "The Justice Department said on Wednesday that government applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for wiretap approval rose to 2,371 in 2007, from 2,176 a year earlier.
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Here we go again, another federal employee's laptop stolen, this time including private health data of 2,500 patients. Of course the kickers are; the National Institutes of Health sat on this information for a month and the data on the laptop *was not encrypted*, which is against their own regulations. "Almost 2,500 patients taking part in a federal medical trial recently had their private health data compromised when a researcher’s laptop computer was stolen.
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For me, this week will always be remembered as the one in which Twitter almost had a business model. It all started when Biz Stone, the same Biz Stone who said "Twitter will remain free to use by everyone ... " was quoted by the U.K.'s Marketing magazine saying: "We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts." Call me crazy, but that sounds like Twitter is planning to charge for commercial accounts.
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March 19th, 2009UncategorizedThe Canada Revenue Agency never told Canada's privacy watchdog after it learned that someone inside the agency could be sending information to a B.C. gang, CTV News has learned.