Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Facebook security glitch exposes user in-boxes

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Facebook apparently has been having a bit of a tough time in the uptime department. And a glitch of some sort has resulting in users being s...

Cartoon: It's private

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This is the oldest joke in the privacy business, but privacy cartoons are rare so this merits a mention:
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Going postal over privacy

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This is very interesting .... Worker: Postal Service sold private data on Yahoo! News By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 30,...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Cedars Sinai reserves the right to disclose your personal info ....

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This is pretty amazing. Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing! has posted a picture of a notice received from Cedars Sinai hospital, providing the pu...

Blawgworld 2007

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The 2007 edition of Technolawyer's Blawgworld is being released today. (Download the hefty PDF file here .) I've had the benefit of...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Quebec Movie Chain Sued Over "Abusive" Search

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Michael Geist is blogging about a recent lawsuit filed in Quebec over searches of theatre patrons, apparently looking for camcording equipme...

Privacy on parade in the UK

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The Lawyer.com has an interesting article on the use of the Human Rights Act in the United Kingdom to dramatically extend individual privcy ...

Snooping on electronic health records

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While electronic health records make it easier for employees to snoop on medical records, they also make it easier to catch them. The number...

Former privacy commissioner named as Ontario's conflict of interest commissioner

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Ontario's first Information and Privacy Commissioner, Sidney Linden, has been named as Ontario's Conflict of Interest Commissioner: ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Google pulls back cookie expiry dates

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In another privacy move, Google is changing the expiry date on their cookies to 24 months. See: Official Google Blog: Cookies: expiring soon...