Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Commissioner speaks at the PIPEDA review hearings

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Michael Geist has a summary of the third day of the PIPEDA review hearings, at which the Privacy Commissioner appeared. She called for manda...
Monday, November 27, 2006

Suspect Nation

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Google Video is hosting a great documentary featuring Henry Porter of the Observer on widespread surveillance in the US and the UK that assu...
Friday, November 24, 2006

UK police to get head-mounted videocams and portable fingerprint scanners

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Hrm. Interesting. Some cops in Haringey, UK, are being issued head-mounted CCTV cameras ( UK police to get head-mounted videocams - 23 Nov ...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

Charges laid under Alberta's Health Information Act

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The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta has announced that the first charges ever have been laid under the Helath Information Ac...

SWIFT broke data privacy laws

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According to the Associated Press, a panel of EU privacy regulators has found that SWIFT violated European privacy laws by handing over SWIF...

Kudos to Le Royal Méridien King Edward hotel

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As I wander through this world, I more often than not notice privacy problems instead of good privacy practices. That may be a result of bei...

McKennitt injunction in the Court of Appeal

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I blogged some time abo about Loreena McKennitt's successful bid in the UK High Courts to have an unflattering book pulled from shelves ...

PIPEDA Hearings - day two

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Michael Geist has posted notes taken by Kathi Simmons and Shiran Sabari at the second day of the PIPEDA hearings: Michael Geist - PIPEDA Hea...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Simmer down in the streets of Groningen

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Apparently technology now exists to tell if people are talking in an aggressive way. Wired News is reporting that the city of Groningen is d...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Blogging the PIPEDA hearings

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Is it live or is it Memorex? Michael Geist has a source sitting in on the PIPEDA hearings. Read her notes: Michael Geist - PIPEDA Hearings...