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Halifax Police Won't Charge Teen Arrested in Nova Scotia Privacy Fiasco

posted by martyb on Thursday May 10 2018, @08:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the sudden-outbreak-of-common-sense dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/police-drop-charges-in-nova-scotia-government-breach-1.4651543

"Spokesperson Neera Ritcey said in an email Monday that after a thorough investigation, police determined there were no grounds to lay a charge of unauthorized use of a computer against the teen."

See also

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-information-request-privacy-breach-teen-speaks-out-1.4621970

http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-05-09

Previously

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/04/23/001205

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:28PM (1 child)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:28PM (#677834) Journal

    Apparently it is now recognized that the administrators intentionally mislead the police [halifaxexaminer.ca]. However, the chances of any of them getting charged with filing a false report are still slim because the police made a lot of errors initially as well. The only one involved who didn't screw up was the kid.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:39PM (#678888)

    My favorite passage so far:

    Indeed, the editor of the Examiner, who has no formal training in coding, got a self-taught working knowledge of WGet after only a couple hours.

    (For the troglodytes among us here, should there be any, the deviously arcane Wget syntax is wget URL)