B.C. Court of Appeal upholds $15,000 damages for privacy breach, without proof of further harm

By Karunjit Singh ( April 25, 2025, 5:03 PM EDT) -- The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld $15,000 in non-pecuniary damages for each person whose privacy was breached when a rogue Insurance Corp. of B.C. (ICBC) employee accessed the private data of 78 policyholders and sold some of it to criminals, leading to arson and shooting attacks against 13 people....