in the course of executing a search warrant
August 13, 2014 Occasional Contributors Business and Legal Issues, Corporate Administration, Corporate Governance, Finance and Accounting, Fraud and Corruption, IT, Privacy and Security, Payroll and Personnel Management, Privacy Compliance and Management, Records Management and Retention, Systems and Data Management
The new tort of “intrusion upon seclusion”, which provides a cause of action to those whose privacy has been breached, was given new teeth this month by the certification of a class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia and its employee, Richard Wilson.
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