Apr 10, 2009

Checking Facebook To See Whether Claimant Disabled?

United Press International (I thought they were out of business) is reporting that a Canadian court has ordered a search of the hard disk drive of a man applying for disability benefits from the provincial insurance agency to see how much time he has spent visiting Facebook. This was felt to be probative.

1 comment:

Nancy Ortiz said...

Hmmm. Probative. Uh huh. Probing, mayhap. Maybe he's claiming DIB for carpal tunnel, she said, groping wildly for a reason to do this. The Canadians are generally very sensible and I doubt they're just fishing. Wow. This is a new one.