Privacy Commissioner welcomes Court decision on rights of cyberbullying victims

OTTAWA - Canadian children and youth who have been the victims of cyberbullying will now have the opportunity to seek recourse in court without sacrificing their privacy says Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada. In a unanimous decision handed down on September 27, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that a 15-year-old girl, who became the victim of sexualized cyberbullying when someone set up a fake Facebook profile using a variation of her name, can proceed anonymously in her efforts to find out the identity of the cyberbully. The Court's decision noted that granting the applicant anonymity would cause minimal harm...