Intellectual Property Law

Canadian Bus Driver Refuses U.S. Background Check and Wins

By Kim Zetter

A Canadian school bus driver who refused to allow a U.S. security firm perform a mandatory background check out of privacy concerns has won her battle.

Stephanie Sydiaha, a driver for First Student Canada, opposed the background check out of fear over what the private U.S. firm might do with her personal information once it had the data, according to Canada’s CBC News.

Apparently others expressed similar concerns, because the bus company announced this week that it would only use a Canadian company to perform the checks from now on, after considering the issue.

“I think it’s a good move,” Sydiaha said. “I guess my preference would still be that it be done by a police agency rather than another third party company, but certainly I’m glad that the information isn’t going to be available to American authorities.”

Photo: Denni Schnapp/flickr

Full post as published by Threat Level on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).