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Audio podcast: Is the 2011 BCMA Election valid?
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Audio podcast: Following the rules?
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BCMA Lawsuit in the News Again
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The BC Medical Association lawsuit with former director and member of the Executive Dr Caroline Wang is back in the news again.
Dr Wang's lawsuit for libel and breach of contract will not be heard in court until January 2012.
Meanwhile, the lawyer for the BCMA and defendants has filed an application in the Supreme Court of BC seeking an order that Caroline Wang post a security for court costs of $115,752.80 based on estimates of future court costs and the presumption they will win.
The application acknowledges court costs to date are only $34,860.19. These court costs are in addition to the legal costs incurred by each party.
The BCMA application also states, "this is an extraordinary ... case for the court to exercise its discretion" and "Wang's only significant eligible asset in BC appears to be a joint interest in a home in which ... she currently resides", suggesting she be required to further mortgage her home.
Fix released: Is Android phone intermittently sending SMS messages to wrong contact?
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Addendum: On 2011-01-22 Android announced a fix is being rolled out and patches are available, click here for details.
It is hard to know what level of concern one should have regarding posts on the Internet about Android phones having a bug such that text messages are sent to the wrong and random contact.
Twitter agrees to settlement with FTC over privacy charges
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The settlement between Twitter and the US Federal Trade Commission over charges that customers privacy was put at risk hit the news this past week. The settlement may have wide reaching implications.
David Vladeck, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said, “When a company promises consumers that their personal information is secure, it must live up to that promise.” And if a company allows consumers to designate their information as private, it must use reasonable security to support that designation, he said.
