Canadian Data Breach Class Action Expanded

A recent Canadian Federal Court of Appeal ruling reinstating claims for negligence and breach of confidence in a data breach class action against the federal government is consistent with the country’s jurisprudence, a Toronto class action attorney told Bloomberg BNA July 12 (Condon v. The Queen, Can. C.A., x, 7/6/15).

The suit concerned the loss of an external hard drive containing the personal information of 583,000 student loan recipients.

Because class action certification requires an assumption of the facts provided by the litigants, the lower court erred in striking the negligence and breach of confidence claims in ...