Interesting Links for 07-11-2017

[andrewducker]

"I lost my job over a Facebook post - was that fair?"

(tags: facebook jobs privacy )

Oxford Street could become a traffic-free boulevard next year

(tags: london cars )

Prominent Brexiteer John Redwood advises investors to avoid Britain

(tags: UK Europe economics OhForFucksSake Conservatives )

The latest news from Brussels on Brexit

(tags: UK Europe OhForFucksSake )

Boris Johnson blunder risks five more years in prison for British-Iranian woman

(tags: Iran conservatives uk oh BorisJohnson )

Brexit might be going badly, but that doesn’t mean people are changing their minds

(tags: polls UK europe )

The automated production of children's YouTube videos is leading to some disturbing places

(tags: children videos wtf youtube )

EU to discuss blacklist of tax havens after Paradise Papers leaks

(tags: tax europe )

How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices

(tags: Ireland tax apple )

Newlywed mum’s son denied Irish passport (because Ireland's surrogacy laws lag badly behind)

(tags: ireland children citizenship lgbt )

Current World Record of distant landscape photography (440km)

Beware flat-earthers in the comments!
(tags: photos photography geography )

Comments

[kmusser]

Re: the woman losing her job . . . in the U.S. what she did would've violated HIPAA which is a Federal law protecting patient privacy rights - I don't know if a nursing home here would fire someone for their first infraction, but I wouldn't be surprised.

[armiphlage]

Same in Canada. Violating people's medical privacy will get you fired, AND then fined, even if you don't make it public.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/05/06/hospital-workers-convicted-for-snooping-into-rob-fords-personal-health-files.html

[dewline]

Yep. PIPEDA has consequences at the federal level...and then there's the provincial stuff in the case you cited.