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Title: Nova Scotia embarrassment

URL: http://colinoflynn.com/2018/04/nova-scotia-embarrassment/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Flynn's blog entry provides an overview of the security breach on Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: 19-year-old Canadian facing criminal charges for downloading publicly-accessible documents

URL: http://millertrades.com/blog/2018/04/17/19-year-old-canadian-facing-criminal-charges-for-downloading-publicly-accessible-documents/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses charges against a 19-year-old Canadian who accessed documents that were publicly accessible on Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP). The article was originally posted on "Tech Dirt."

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Teen accused of breaking hacking laws after fetching internet-public government files

URL: http://squeeze.ph/teen-accused-of-breaking-hacking-laws-after-fetching-internet-public-government-files/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article is on charges brought against a 19-year-old for accessing and downloading documents that were erroneously made publicly available on Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Minister's lips sealed on access-to-information website problem

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/access-to-information-foipop-patricia-arab-portal-web-1.4613335

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses Patricia Arab's response to a breach on the Nova Scotian Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP) .

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Minister's lips sealed on access-to-information website problem

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/access-to-information-foipop-patricia-arab-portal-web-1.4613335/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses Patricia Arab's response to a breach on the Nova Scotian Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP) .

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Police refute claim they asked province to keep a lid on information breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/breach-information-access-to-information-police-protocol-1.4615233

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the police investigation on a breach on Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP) and the differing stories told by the police and Nova Scotia's Internal Services Minister Patricia Arab.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police Provincial governments

Title: Companies behind breached system handle most N.S. permits and licenses

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/breach-information-permits-licenses-software-hack-computers-it-1.4616199/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses breach on the Nova Scotian Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP), and specifies that the breached information included permits and licenses issued by Service Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Business Registry, the Department of Environment, the Department of Labour, and the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Concerns teen being 'railroaded' in privacy breach to cover government slip

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/concerns-teen-being-railroaded-in-privacy-breach-to-cover-government-slip-1.4616972

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the charges brought against a teen for downloading documents from the Nova Scotian Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges Provincial governments

Title: Premier unwavering in support for cabinet minister Opposition wants fired

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/fired-patricia-arab-information-leak-breach-cabinet-resignation-1.4618202

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses Premier Stephen McNeil's support for the Internal Services Minister of Nova Scotia Patricia Arab amidst calls from the opposition party for her dismissal. The article also discusses steps taken by the provincial government to notify those affected by the Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) breach.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Province calls in auditor general on FOI privacy breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/foi-privacy-breach-auditor-general-patricia-arab-1.4631522

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses Auditor General Michael Pickup's investigation of the privacy breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information website (FOIPOP), as requested by the Internal Services Minister Patricia Arab.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Teen charged after personal information exposed in Nova Scotia government website breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-information-personal-website-breach-1.4614424

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the arrest of a 19-year-old man from Halifax after 7,000 documents were accessed from Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information website (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Teen charged after personal information exposed in Nova Scotia government website breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-information-personal-website-breach-1.4614424/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the arrest of a 19-year-old man from Halifax after 7,000 documents were accessed from Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information website (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Teen charged in Nova Scotia government breach says he had 'no malicious' intent'

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

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses 19-year-old's response to being charged after downloading 7,000 documents from Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Province to decide soon on renewing IT contract linked to private-data breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/it-contract-renewal-private-data-breach-1.4619175

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the potential renewal of Nova Scotia's contract with Unisys, the company resposible for the software that supports the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) portal for the province, in connection with the recent breach of the portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Contracts

Title: N.S. private info vulnerable: auditor general

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-private-info-vulnerable-auditor-general-1.900823

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article states that Nova Scotia's auditor general Jacques Lapointe identified issues with the province's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) portal, among other government systems.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: McNeil won't apologize for comments about teen at centre of privacy breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/premier-stephen-mcneil-privacy-breach-freedom-of-information-portal-1.4653474/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article covers Nova Scotia's Premier Stephen McNeil's comments about the teen who was cleared of charges related to a breach of the province's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Man accused in privacy beach gets support from lawyer, tech community

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/privacy-breach-foi-website-lawyer-1.4625542

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses support for a 19-year-old man accused in connection with the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) breach.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Civil servants' hacking claim in privacy breach led to police action, documents show

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/privacy-breach-nova-scotia-government-website-hacking-court-documents-1.4657375/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses evidence in the investigation into the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) privacy breach, whereby government employees claimed that the portal had been hacked. In reality, these documents were available on the portal without security and publicly available via their URLs.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Police Hacking

Title: Liberals block 3rd attempt to bring privacy breach case to committee

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/privacy-website-politics-liberal-stephen-mcneil-information-1.4665949/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses Nova Scotia opposition's call for a committee to examinine the breach to the Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Governmental investigations

Title: Liberals block public debate on privacy breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/provincial-politics-debate-privacy-breach-auditor-general-1.4635145

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses vote by the provincial liberals against calling Internal Services Department officials to testify about the breach of the Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal in front of a public committee.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: What led to Nova Scotia's privacy breach

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/timeline-nova-scotia-privacy-1.4629047

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article is a timeline of events leading up to and following the breach of the provincial Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Hacking charge dropped against Nova Scotia teen who slurped public records from the web

URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/07/canadian_teen_hacker/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the dropping of charges by Halifax police against a Nova Scotian teen charged with downloading documents on the provincial Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges Hacking

Title: Dear Canada: Accessing publicly available information on the internet is not a crime

URL: http://yysecurity.co.uk/corporate/2018/04/23/dear-canada-accessing-publicly-available-information-on-the-internet-is-not-a-crime/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article calls for Canadian authorities to drop charges against a 19-year-old Canadian charged with downloading 7,000 documents from the Nova Scotian Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP), which were mistakenly made publicly available.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Nova Scotia premier won't apologise for libeling teen who discovered massive data breach

URL: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/08/messenger-shooter.html/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil's refusal to apologise for stating that a 19-year-old man "stole" documents from the province, after charges against the individual were dropped by Halifax police.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Police charges

Title: Nova Scotia abandons its attempt to destroy a teenager who stumbled on a wide-open directory of sensitive information

URL: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/08/squid-jiggin.html

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the charges dropped against a 19-year-old Canadian for downloading documents from the Nova Scotian Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP) that should not have been publicly-available.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges Provincial governments

Title: An open letter to the Premier and the Cabinet

URL: https://evandentremont.com/an-open-letter-to-the-premier-and-the-cabinet/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Blog post is a letter from Evan D'Entremont to Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil regarding the publication of private documents on the Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP), and in support of the teen charged with downloading these documents.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Police charges

Title: Regarding the Freedom of Information "hack"

URL: https://evandentremont.com/some-information-on-the-freedom-of-information-hack/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Blog post is on the Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP) and the arrest of a 19-year-old man in connection with a privacy breach. The article defends the 19-year-old man.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Police charges

Title: Nova Scotia won't say why freedom of information website taken offline

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4135702/nova-scotia-foi/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discussses the closure of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information and Privacy web portal (FOIPOP) without explanation and Internal Services Minister Patricia Arab's response to questions about an undefined breach to the portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Halifax police make arrest after Nova Scotia FOI website breached, personal information exposed

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4137619/nova-scotia-foi-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the arrest of a 19-year-old man from Halifax after 7,000 documents were accessed from Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information website (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: N.S. opposition 'strongly considering' calling for minister's resignation over information breach

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4140234/ns-foi-breach-resignation/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the Nova Scotian opposition's consideration of calling for the resignation of Internal Services Minsiter Patricia Arab, following a privacy breach of the province's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Stephen McNeil rejects N.S. Opposition's call for minister's resignation over data breach

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4142602/stephen-mcneil-resign-data-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses Premier Stephen McNeil's support for the Internal Services Minister of Nova Scotia Patricia Arab amidst calls from the opposition party for her dismissal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Halifax law firm looking into possible class action over N.S. data breach

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4146941/nova-scotia-data-breach-class-action/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the Halifax law firm Wagners announcement of a possible class action suit for people whose privacy was breached via Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Lawyers

Title: Police 'overreached' in arrest of N.S. man accused in breach of website: experts

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4150305/police-overreached-in-arrest-of-n-s-man-accused-in-breach-of-website-experts/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the response from various lawyers in response to the arrest of a 19-year-old man charged with accessing 7,000 documents from Nova Scotia's Freedom of Privacy portal (FOIPOP).

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Lawyers Police charges

Title: Crowdfunding campaign aims to pay legal defence of N.S. teen charged after data breach

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4152079/tech-industry-ns-data-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses a crowd funding campaign launched in support of a Canadian teen charged following a breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP). The campaign was launced by Dragos Ruiu of Edmonton.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Crowd funding Police charges

Title: Nova Scotia's auditor general to perform audit after province's data breach

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4161827/nova-scotia-auditor-general-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the announcement of an investigation into the breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP) by Nova Scotia's auditor general Michael Pickup.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: More instances of 'unusual activity' found on N.S. freedom of information website

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4176278/more-instances-of-unusual-activity-found-on-n-s-freedom-of-information-website/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the discovery of further downloads of private documents from the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website following that announced on April 11, 2018.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Didn't have all the information': Expert says new breaches show N.S. jumped the gun on FOIPOP arrest

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4177145/ns-breach-foipop/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article claims that the arrest of a 19-year-old man in connection with a privacy breach to Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal was pre-emptive, in light of the discovery of "11 additional instances of unusual activity."

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Police charges

Title: FOIPOP website still down as vendor contract nears expiration

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4185650/foipop-website-still-down/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the continued closure of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal following a data breach and the upcoming renewal of a contract with the company in charge of the portal's maintenance

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Contracts Provincial governments

Title: Police will not charge 19-year-old involved in Nova Scotia data breach, close investigation

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4191414/halifax-police-data-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the closure of the police investigation into the data breach on Nova Scota's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and the dropping of charges against a 19-year-old man initially arrested in connection to the breach.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Search warrants released in breach of Nova Scotia freedom-of-information website

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4201163/search-warrants-released-in-foipop-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the recently released documents concerning the search warrant for a 19-year-old arrested in connection with Nova Scotia's privacy breach of their Freedom of Information portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Warrants (Law)

Title: Still no timeline for fix of website at centre of N.S. data breach 40 days later

URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/4209661/foi-website-offline-40-days/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article discusses the continued closure of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal following a data breach, and the investigations into the breach by Nova Scotia's auditor general Michael Pickup and by Catherine Tully, the province's privacy and information commissioner.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website 'hacking'?

URL: https://irishinfosecnews.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/is-scraping-files-from-a-freedom-of-information-website-hacking/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Blog post discusses the definition of "hacker" in connection to a breach to the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and the charging of a 19-year-old for accessing files that should not have been publicly accessible. The article was originally published on Naked Security by Sophos.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Hacking

Title: Privacy breach of FOIPOP website information

URL: https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20180411005/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This news release from Internal Services reports a breach of information on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website, its extent, the type of information breached, and the closure of the database.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Interim update on FOIPOP portal privacy breach

URL: https://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20180430001

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This news release from Internal Services provides an update on the status of the investigation into the privacy breach of the provincial government's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) website.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Chapter 3: AMANDA case management and compliance system

URL: https://oag-ns.ca//sites/default/files/publications/3%20AMANDA%20Case%20Management%20and%20Compliance%20System.pdf

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This PDF provides an overview of the audit on the AMANDA system and its resulting recommendations. The chapter is part of the Report of the Auditor General from November 2016.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments

Title: Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website 'hacking'?

URL: https://stewilliams.com/is-scraping-files-from-a-freedom-of-information-website-hacking/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This blog post discusses the definition of "hacker" in connection to a breach to the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and the charging of a 19-year-old for accessing files that should not have been publicly accessible. The article was originally published on Naked Security by Sophos.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Hacking

Title: You're a govt official. You accidentally slap personal info on the web. Quick, blame a kid!

URL: https://unhingedgroup.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/youre-a-govt-official-you-accidentally-slap-personal-info-on-the-web-quick-blame-a-kid/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article is on the breach to Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and the subsequent charging of a 19-year-old for accessing files that should not have been publicly available.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Police charges

Title: Dear Canada: Accessing publicly available information on the internet is not a crime

URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dear-canada-accessing-publicly-available-information-internet-not-crime/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Article calls for Canadian authorities to drop charges against a 19-year-old Canadian charged with downloading 7,000 documents from the Nova Scotian Freedom of Information portal (FOIPOP), which were mistakenly made publicly available.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: Privacy Commissioner initiates investigation into breach of government's access to information web portal

URL: https://www.foipop.ns.ca/sites/default/files/Press-Releases/18-00140%20News%20Release%20%282018%20April%2011%29.pdf

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This PDF news release announces the launch of an investigation into the breach of the provincial government's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal by the the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Catherine Tully.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Provincial governments Governmental investigations

Title: NS FOI travesty legal defense

URL: https://www.gofundme.com/ns-teen-railroaded-by-government/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This "Go Fund Me" venture was started by Dragos Ruiu, on behalf of David Fraser, a 19-year-old charged in connection to the breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information and Privacy portal. The fund was to raise money for Fraser's legal defense.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Fund raising

Title: Police conclude investigation into data breach

URL: https://www.halifax.ca/home/news/police-conclude-investigation-data-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This news release announces the end of the police investigation into the Nova Scotia data breach on the Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police

Title: Police investigating breach of confidential electronic government information

URL: https://www.halifax.ca/home/news/police-investigating-breach-confidential-electronic-government-information/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This news release announces that the police executed a search warrant and took an indvidual into custody relating to the breach of the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police

Title: Eleven more security failures...are we going to arrest Google?

URL: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/eleven-more-security-failures-are-we-going-to-arrest-google/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Bousquet's article provies an overview of 11 further security failures relating to the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) website and the province's reaction and investigation into the breach.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Freedom isn't free

URL: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/polishing-a-turd-mayor-mike-savage-says-the-fiscal-disaster-of-the-convention-centre-is-a-good-news-story/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: In the fourth article on this page, Bousquet examines the continued closure of the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and information stored in it.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: The "breach of privacy" arrest looks like an exercise in misdirection

URL: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/the-breach-of-privacy-arrest-looks-like-an-exercise-in-misdirection/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Bousquet's article examines the announcement of the privacy breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) website and the subsequent arrest by police of a 19-year-old man from Halifax.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: What we know about the security failure

URL: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/what-we-know-about-the-security-failure/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Bousquet's article provides an overview of the details of the security failure of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website), whereby documents were mistakenly uploaded by provincial employees to the FOIPOP site.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Documents show how provincial employees misled Halifax police in the FOIPOP security failure

URL: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-house/breaking-documents-show-how-provincial-employees-misled-halifax-police-in-the-foipop-security-failure/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article provides an overview of the alleged "hack" of the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) website and the involvement in the police investigation by provincial employees.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: How we obtained the search warrant documents

URL: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-house/how-we-obtained-the-search-warrant-documents/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article examines the police sealing of the search warrant in connection with the Nova Scotia data breach of the Freedom of Information website, and attempts by the Halifax Examiner and Spectator to obtain a copy of the search warrant.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Warrants (Law)

Title: "Computer-Missbrauch": Kanadier droht Haft, weil er zählen kann

URL: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kanadier-droht-Haft-weil-er-zaehlen-kann-4029250.html

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Written in German, this article examines the arrest of a 19-year-old man for downloading 7,000 publicly-available documents from Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal. The article also addresses the response to his arrest from the Canadian IT scene.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Police charges

Title: More than 7,000 documents accessed after data breach of Nova Scotia government website

URL: https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/more-than-7000-documents-accessed-after-data-breach-of-nova-scotia-government-website/404046/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Coop's article provides an overview of the data breach to the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and the arrest of a 19-year-old man in connection to the breach.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Hacking charge dropped against Nova Scotia teen who slurped public records from the web

URL: https://www.neomrx.ro/2018/05/08/hacking-charge-dropped-against-nova-scotia-teen/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article, originally published in "The Register" announces the dropping of charges against a 19-year-old teenager in connection with a breach to Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) website)

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Hacking

Title: Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website 'hacking'?

URL: https://www.techfreaked.com/is-scraping-files-from-a-freedom-of-information-website-hacking/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This blog post discusses the definition of "hacker" in connection to a breach to the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and the charging of a 19-year-old for accessing files that should not have been publicly accessible. The article was originally published on Naked Security by Sophos.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Hacking

Title: FOIPOP breach and the dangers of criminalizing research

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/Opinionated/archives/2018/04/19/the-foipop-breach-and-the-dangers-of-criminalizing-research/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article examines the difference between hacking and webiste scraping for research purposes in connection with the arrest of a 19-year-old man for the breach of the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Hacking

Title: Province just sort of stumbles across massive data breach

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2018/04/11/province-just-sort-of-stumbles-across-massive-data-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Boon's article examines the breach to Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal and the downloading of 7,000 documents from the portal by a 19-year-old man.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Province was warned about sloppy database security over a year ago

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2018/04/13/province-was-warned-about-sloppy-database-security-over-a-year-ago/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article discusses the auditor general's 2016 report in connection to the breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Nova Scotia's FOIPOP site won't be back online anytime soon

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2018/04/20/nova-scotias-foipop-site-wont-be-back-online-anytime-soon/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: Boon's article discusses the continued closure of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal following a privacy breach.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Auditor General will investigate FOIPOP breach

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2018/04/23/auditor-general-will-investigate-foipop-breach/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article discusses the announcement by the province that the auditor general Michael Pickup will investigate a recent breach to Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy Governmental investigations

Title: 11 more security failures discovered in Freedom of Information database

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2018/04/30/11-more-security-failures-discovered-in-freedom-of-information-database/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article discusses the discovery of further leaks in Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal, following the initial discovery in early April that a 19-year-old teen accessed 7,000 documents that should not have been publicly accessible.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Breach teen is free!

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2018/05/07/breach-teen-is-free/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article announces the release of a 19-year-old man initially arrested in connection to a data breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Breach teen is free!

URL: https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archives/2018/05/07/breach-teen-is-free/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article announces the release of a 19-year-old man initially arrested in connection to a data breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Police drop case against teen in alleged breach of Nova Scotia government website

URL: https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2018/05/07/police-drop-case-against-teen-in-alleged-breach-of-nova-scotia-government-website.html/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This article announces the release of a 19-year-old man initially arrested in connection to a data breach of Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) portal.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

Title: Nova Scotia Freedom of Information website breached

URL: https://www.uzado.com/blog/nova-scotia-freedom-of-information-website-breached/

Collection: Nova Scotia FOIPOP portal breach

Description: This bloog post addresses the breach to Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information portal and the charging of a 19-year-old Halifax man in connection to the breach. It addresses why the breach was not discovered earlier and the types of information that were disclosed.

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Subject:   Privacy, Right of--Canada Freedom of information--Canada Privacy

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