Thursday, February 10, 2005

Federal Court of Appeal issues a declaration in the Englander case

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According to Mathew Englander's website, the Federal Court of Appeal today issued its decision with respect to his remedy. There was no ...
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Will back-to-school sales include tinfoil suits?

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A rural school in the US is planning to make their students wear RFID-embeded tags to track their movements. As a client of mine just mentio...

Anti-terror laws spark concerns about abuse, trampling of freedoms

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The Canadian federal government commissioned a study of Canadians' attitudes to the Anti-Terrorism Act, which is summarized in the follo...
Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Alberta Commissioner finds three businesses failed to protect personal information from identity thieves

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The Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner has released three investigation reports, castigating three Alberta businesses for failing ...

Pressure builds to name privacy-law offenders

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Up to now, one of the loudest advocates of having the Privacy Commissioner "name names" has been Michael Geist (see Geist: Revise ...
Tuesday, February 08, 2005

EFF helps online service providers to minimise data collection

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just released an interesting software product to assist online service providers in limiting the info...
Monday, February 07, 2005

Italian personal data protection code

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Alessandro Monteleone has sent me a link to his site http://www.dataprotection.it . The front page is mostly in Italian, but his site includ...
Sunday, February 06, 2005

Your Statements Went Where?

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The Washington Post (via Yahoo! News) is carrying a lengthy story about errant bank statements and tax documents. A fellow in Minnesota has ...
Saturday, February 05, 2005

Yet another university security foul-up

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If you put it online -- anywhere -- odds are that Google will find it. Students of Johns Hopkins have found out the hard way. Student inform...

Industry Canada proposes PIPEDA exemption for Ontario "health information custodians"

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Industry Canada has gazetted its proposed cabinet order exempting Ontario's "health information custodians" from the applicat...