The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (aka PIPEDA) and other Canadian and international laws.
The author of this blog, David T.S. Fraser, is a Canadian privacy lawyer who practices with the firm of McInnes Cooper. He is the author of the Physicians' Privacy Manual. He has a national and international practice advising corporations and individuals on matters related to Canadian privacy laws.
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
A couple of days ago, the ultra-popular blog Boing Boing posted an account of an individual who was arrested in a national bank after inquiring whether a cheque he had received was legit. (See: Boing Boing: Bank of America loses $50 million from customers upset by false arrest.) The author of the post asked readers to e-mail Boing Boing if they decided to close their accounts at the bank to protest the situation. So far, they report that the bank has lost $900,000 worth of business from the blog's readers.
While the incident doesn't really have a privacy angle, it is worth thinking about what might happen if your company were to be involved in a privacy incident that received this kind of coverage. Word of mouth has aways had a strong impact on the bottom line, but word of blog (particularly one as popular as Boing Boing) can be much more powerful.
Think about it.
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