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A resident of Ottawa, claiming to be one of the more-than-half-a-million victimized student loan recipients whose personal data was recently lost by a federal government office is intending to launch a joint class-action lawsuit against the office on Thursday. The data was lost through a classified hard drive which went missing from a federal office, though its’ officials claim it might just be misplaced.
A mother of three, Jennifer Britton, claims she got wind of the so-called privacy breach through Facebook over the weekend. Consequently, Britton explained she approached the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) for confirming whether she was one of the victims, and the officials apparently asked Britton to protect her credit information from potential fraud. Furthermore, she was requested to spend almost $14 each month for keeping her credit information save, which she utterly opposed saying that “I mean $14 a month doesn’t sound like a lot, but if this is going on for years and years, it’s a fee.” She explained that “I’ve got little kids, I’m on maternity leave and every dollar counts.”
Britton has demanded that the government shall be held responsible of paying any cost related to protecting victimized people, since the federal office is wholly responsible for data loss in the first place. She stated that “I absolutely don’t think that it should be on me and other former students to pay this when it’s the government’s mistake.” Britton’s Lawyer, Bob Buckingham, is approaching all victims of the data breach to assemble a class-action lawsuit in response to the lost information.
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