OttawaCanada’s privacy regulator opened a probe into ID-scanner IDScan.
Bar and venue patrons who scanned a license never agreed to become a breach target.
The probe covers IDScan’s security practices and whether it properly notified victims, as required under Canada’s federal privacy law.
The regulator has not set a timeline for its findings or any penalty against IDScan.
How each outlet framed it
- The Record leans critical
- credits journalist Brian Krebs's dark web investigation in breach discovery, focuses Canadian privacy law notification probe
Sources: The Record