Sunday, February 05, 2006

Lipstick on Your Caller

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The New York Times is running another article on the problem with companies that sell cell-phone records ( Lipstick on Your Caller - New Yor...

Congressional committee seeking more info on online data brokers

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According to RCRNews.com and others, the House Commerce Committee is seeking information from online data brokers in the course of investig...

More on metadata

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The Globe and Mail's technology section has an article on hidden metadata, where it comes from and what Microsoft is trying to do to add...
Saturday, February 04, 2006

Queries about search queries answered

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With all the fuss about search engines and what they know about users, Declan McCullagh of CNET has asked some probing questions of Google, ...

Prototype RFID in Dutch passports cracked

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According to Engadget (which got the story via The Register and Vara (Dutch) ), the new (prototype) RFID technology being implemented in Du...
Friday, February 03, 2006

Welcome Open and Shut

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Welcome to the blogging world, Open and Shut . Peter Timmins of New South Wales in Australia works regularly with the freedom of information...
Thursday, February 02, 2006

Fact Sheet: Secure Destruction of Personal Information

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The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has released a handy four page fact sheet on the secure destruction of personal informat...
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Boston Globe wraps papers in subscribers' personal information

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The Boston Globe is doing a major mea culpa after thousands of bundles of its paper were distributed with subscribers' personal informat...
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Missouri shuts down call record vendor

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The Attorney General of Missouri has been successful in his effort to get a restraining order to prevent Locatecell.com from selling phone r...

Australia to review privacy laws

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The Attorney General of Australia has asked the Law Reform Commisison of that country to undertake a comprehensive review of the existing pr...