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Canada Dashboard Digest | UBC to pay $167K for violating fired novelist's privacy rights Related reading: Notes from the IAPP Canada Managing Director, 29 March 2024

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The University of British Columbia has been ordered to pay $167,000 to a novelist for violating his privacy rights, The Canadian Press reports. Steven Galloway sued the university for sending a memo to groups around campus stating he was under investigation for “serious allegations” and alleging he suffered harm when the school sent communications out about his termination. Galloway had been accused by a student of sexual assault and claimed the school’s actions violated his privacy rights. “I find that certain communications by the university contravened (Galloway's) privacy rights and caused harm to his reputation,” Arbitrator John Hall wrote. “He should accordingly be compensated with an award of damages.”
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