Watchdog barks over laptop theft

[Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>]

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2006/09/27/1905123-sun.html


Alberta's privacy watchdog rapped the knuckles of a financial 
services company yesterday after a laptop computer was stolen 
containing the personal information of 8,000 Alberta physicians.

An employee of MD Management Ltd., a subsidiary of the Canadian 
Medical Association, found the computer stolen from his Jeep on June 
19. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner was told 
of the theft June 30.

[... ]

Adhopia said there was no evidence to suggest any of the data was 
misused. It included physicians' names, ages, specialties, home 
addresses and their total financial assets with MD Management.

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