Friday, April 30, 2010

Social networking for lawyers seminar

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Some readers of this blog may be interested in this seminar that I'm giving for the Nova Scotia Barristers Society next week. Those who ...

Yahoo privacy boss distances herself from Facebook

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It really isn't surprising that companies that are not Facebook are concerned that Facebook's attitude to privacy means that other i...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Commissioner can't demand evidence to back-up privilege claims

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Dan Michaluk, over at All About Information, has a great summary of a recent case from the Federal Court holding that the Privacy Commission...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Patriot Act reality check and Canadian authorities' similar powers

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I had the honour of being invited to speak to the Canadian Bar Association's Alberta branch earlier this week about cross-border privacy...

Amazon refuses to turn over customers' reading records to North Carolina tax department

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Tax authorities in North Carolina, in connection with an investigation about sales taxes, has demanded that Amazon hand over information not...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Facebook changes rules for plaform developers; Privacy Commissioner warns of blackmail risk

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Quietly, Facebook has changed it policy for developers on the Facebook platform. Under the old policy, platform developers were only able to...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Let’s see Canadian transparency in government demands for personal information

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My post on Slaw this week: Let’s see Canadian transparency in government demands for personal information – Slaw Earlier this week, Michel-...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Facebook makes users' "interests" public, with no opt-out

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I am an unhappy Facebook user. Facebook has just decided that all the "interests" information on users profiles pages should be pu...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Google releases Government Requests Tool, showing info and takedown demands

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Google has just announced a new " Government Requests tool ", which shows graphically how many governmental requests Google and Yo...

Privacy guardians warn multinationals to respect laws

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International data protection regulators are meeting in Washington, DC and are planning to hold a press conference this afternoon. Here is t...