Thursday, August 31, 2006

Pizza receipts land in trash

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If your data is supposed to go to a shredder, make sure it ends up there. A dumpster in British Columbia has been found overflowing with cr...

UK database of children-at-risk could put them at greater risk

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Some experts are suggesting that the UK's new childrens' database will become a tool of pedophiles hunting for vulnerable children. ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Right to Know Forum in Nova Scotia

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Darce Fardy, former Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Review Officer for Nova Scotia has passed tihs announcement on to me: R...

FBI shows off huge, multi-source linked database

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According to the Washington Post, the FBI has just provided a demonstration of a new ginormous database to help the war on terror. Here is a...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Incident: AT&T e-commerce site hacked

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AT&T is again in the privacy crosshairs, this time after it was revealed that credit card info of around 19,000 customers was obtained b...

First conviction under Canada's new voyeurism law

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Canada's new video voyeurism law is getting its first test after a man in Nova Scotia has pleaded guilty to using a video camera to cov...

Australian tax office fires employees over inappropriate snooping into confidential records

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Once again, Australia is in the privacy news. This time, it is the Australian Tax Office, which has recently disciplined two dozen employees...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Ontario Commissioner finds that CIA does not have access to health information

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I blogged yesterday about the controversy surrounding an indirect CIA investee company providing services to Canadian health providers ( Can...
Sunday, August 27, 2006

Canadian folk singer opens the door to expanded privacy for celebrities in Europe

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Canadian folk singer Loreena McKennitt has obtained an injunction in the United Kingdom to prevent the publication of some revelations in a ...
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Privacy groups slam use of CIA-backed software to index Canadian health files

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I'm back from vacation, CBA, etc and clearing out my backlog of developments in the privacy field. Here is one interesting item that I m...