Cancer survivor awarded damages after privacy breach by breast prosthesis companies, struggles to collect payment
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Cheryl Horrell, a 75-year-old cancer survivor, won a privacy battle after breast prosthesis companies used her private medical details to target her and other cancer survivors with advertising. Despite being awarded over $10,000 in damages by the Privacy Commission and Human Rights Review Tribunal, the company's director, Richard Brady, claimed inability to pay the full amount or offered only small installments — even though another of his companies received over $11 million in taxpayer funding. Horrell described feeling 'shattered' and helpless by the ordeal.
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· 3 pulledCheryl Horrell was furious when painful, private details were used to target her and other cancer survivors with advertising.
Horrell, 75, said she felt helpless after the sole director of the companies, Richard Brady, told her they could not pay the full amount or could pay only in dozens of small instalments.
Despite another of his companies receiving more than $11 million in taxpayer funding.
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