The Alberta Office of the Privacy Commissioner in Canada has ruled that Moore’s Industrial Service Ltd., which accessed a former employee’s personal web-based email
account was in violation of Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). The former employee had signed a noncompete deal when he left the company. When he quit, the employee returned a
company-owned laptop, a device that he had used to access his personal web-based email while he worked for the company. his login and password details were stored on the computer and the company used
the device to access his personal email account.
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