A couple of items on the continuing CIBC missing faxes story in today's Globe and Mail:
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce accuses scrapyard operator Wade Peer of deliberately leaking confidential CIBC customer data and of violating Canadian privacy laws.
The bank's allegations, made in court filings yesterday, come just one ... more »
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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Tuesday, November 30
CIBC attacks scrapyard operator; Finance Minister launches investigation
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DavidAkin
on Tue 30 Nov 2004 11:08 AM EST
Monday, November 29
Steve Maich in the blogosphere
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Nov 2004 11:48 PM EST
CIBC works on damage control in wake of fax foul-up
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Nov 2004 04:59 PM EST
My colleague Sinclair Stewart and I teamed up for this story in today's Globe and Mail:
Top officials at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce huddled over the weekend in an effort to stem the fallout from an embarrassing glitch in which the confidential information of hundreds of customers was ... more »
CIBC bans faxes; privacy commissioner investigates; more leaks
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Nov 2004 04:57 PM EST
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has taken the remarkable step of banning the use of fax machines for any transmission of customer information in the wake of revelations that confidential data for hundreds of its customers had been faxed to a scrap yard operator in West Virginia.
The Toronto-based ... more »
CIBC sends confidential customer data to West Virginia scrapyard
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Nov 2004 08:51 AM EST
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has been faxing confidential information about hundreds of its customers to a scrap yard operator in West Virginia for more than three years, and he says he can't get them to stop.
Wade Peer says he has been overwhelmed since 2001 by internal CIBC ... more »
A FAQ on the CIBC privacy breach
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Nov 2004 08:41 AM EST
I've received a pile of e-mail on the CIBC privacy breach, most of it from CIBC customers. Here's my answers to the Frequently Asked Questions in those messages:
Is there a class action suit being launched? I don't know. If you have a lawyer or know of one, ask ... more » Sunday, November 28
Tyler Hamilton jumps into the blogosphere
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DavidAkin
on Sun 28 Nov 2004 03:31 PM EST
My friend Tyler Hamilton ,who used to work where I do now, at the Globe and Mail, is over at The Toronto Star, Canada's biggest daily newspaper, where he writes about technology and business. Tyler just jumped into the blogosphere with both feet.
" I've come ... more » Sunday, November 21
Wi-Fi comes to Hamilton's airport
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DavidAkin
on Sun 21 Nov 2004 12:04 PM EST
Hamilton International Airport said last week that its entire passenger terminal is wi-fi enabled, a significant plus over its major regional competitor, Toronto's Pearson International Airport. So far as I know, Wi-Fi access at Pearson is pretty much restricted to special lounges and is not available where it would ... more »
Toronto -- most expensive airport in North American to land your jet
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DavidAkin
on Sun 21 Nov 2004 09:56 AM EST
Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto is the most expensive airport in North America --- and second most expensive in the world, behind one in Tokyo -- to land a plane in. Airport operators typically charge airlines a landing fee to cover the costs of putting a plane down ... more »
Saturday, November 20
[What they said] BBC World Service goes RSS
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DavidAkin
on Sat 20 Nov 2004 12:05 AM EST
From David Weinberger's Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization (otherwise known as JOHO) blog:
Joho the Blog: BBC World Service goes RSS BBC World Service goes RSS This is way cool — a major news service (hey, we're talking The Beeb here!) distributing its news by letting us view it wherever ... more » |
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