Privacy Commissioner Expands Probe of Access to ICBC Claims of Jurors

Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:28 AM

At the request of government, Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis is expanding his audit into the access, use, and disclosure of personal information in the conduct of ICBC court proceedings involving jurors, says Labour and Citizens' Services Minister Iain Black.

The minister requested the expanded audit after ICBC learned that the claims histories of jurors in a recent Victoria trial were inappropriately accessed by an ICBC employee at the request of outside defence counsel. As a result of the ongoing investigation into that incident, ICBC has identified two more privacy breaches in connection with cases in 2000 and 2006. The ICBC Board of Directors notified the minister of these two additional potential incidents, and agrees with the need for an independent audit.

The purpose of the audit is to understand how, when and why personal information of individuals involved in ICBC jury trials may have been inappropriately accessed, and to provide recommendations on how ICBC can enhance privacy protection.

The information and privacy commissioner is an independent officer of the legislature. His mandate includes monitoring and enforcing provincial privacy legislation. He has already been notified by ICBC of the inappropriate access to personal information in the ICBC court proceedings. In addition to his normal role in such cases, he has agreed to undertake a comprehensive audit and prepare a report to the minister responsible for ICBC and the chair of the board of ICBC.

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Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:28 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: thereasonableman on May 28 2009 11:05 AM

Now, we're putting the jurors on trial ??

Wow, crack really is rampant.

Posted by: downnotout on May 28 2009 3:14 PM

why would knowing how many speeding tickets jurors get help anyone but I do agree that that type of information should be more private.

Posted by: kitkat on May 28 2009 10:42 PM

Nobody is talking about all the guys out of work at Rustads?
How come this isn't on the news yet?
Usually O250 has this stuff covered.
Prince George is in big trouble, and it's about to get worse.
I'm looking forward to all the ranting and raving (justified) tomorrow.

Posted by: thereasonableman on May 28 2009 10:52 PM

"why would knowing how many speeding tickets jurors get help anyone but...."

I suspect that somebody is trying to go down the road of suggesting that a particular juror who had a bad experience with ICBC would be biased against them in their decision-making process, and a juror who had a particularly healthy settlement might be biased for ICBC in their decision-making process as in a "don't bite the hand that feeds you" sort of way.

In any regard, it is a case of grasping at cosmic straws by desperate (usually otherwise inept) counsel.

If you can't make a brilliant legal argument, then resort to just throwing as much sh!t as possible.

Posted by: Eagleone on May 29 2009 4:17 AM

I once had a $16,000 fine from ICBC appear on my credit report that was never owed in the first place. It was conjured up from thin air. I found out when I was turned down for credit and obtained a copy of my credit report. ICBC refused to remove it at first and it took nearly two years before they removed it from my credit report and admitted I had never owed that money in the first place. A person claiming to be the president of ICBC called me one night and apologized for the mix up and said it happened to hundreds of people and that it was a computer mistake. For ICBC it was a case of these things happen and some clerk made a bad data entry mistake, but for me it meant a credit freeze for two critical years until someone internally at ICBC discovered the 'mistake'. For two years I was guilty until proven innocent. IMO ICBC is completely unaccountable and have far too much concentrated power with no real checks and balances. I think ICBC is a political organization.