Thursday, December 30, 2010

Ontario Commissioner to appeal personal email decision

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You may recall my recent post on a decision of the Ontario courts that held that a government employee's personal email is outside of th...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

London police claim CCTV solves six crimes a day

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Any stats on the effectiveness of video surveillance are hard to find. The Met police in London are claiming that CCTV now accounts for six ...
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Class action lawsuit? There’s an app for that

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Just posted over at slaw.ca: Class action lawsuit? There’s an app for that — Slaw You may have seen the recent Wall Street Journal article ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Interview with EU Privacy Chief

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The Washington Post has an interesting interview with the head of privacy for the European Union, highlighting some of the differences betwe...

Santa's privacy policy

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This is a must read: McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Santa's Privacy Policy . Hat-tip to @privacyprivee for the link.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Federal Court awards PIPEDA damages due to inaccurate credit report

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In what appears to be a break from the recent cases that have declined to award damages to applicants under PIPEDA, the Federal Court in Nam...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Washington Post on Monitoring America

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The Washington Post has a monumental investigative report on "Top Secret America" focused on Monitoring America. Here's a summ...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Facebook implements facial recognition, silent on privacy

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Facebook has just announced that it is implementing facial recognition software to "make it easier to tag your friends" in photos....

Canada's anti-spam act passes and receives royal assent

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Bill C-28, Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act, also known as the anti-spam act, has passed through the sentate and received royal assen...

Ontario access to information decision may affect cloud computing decisions

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Dan Michaluk has a great summary of a recent and important access to information case from Ottawa, City of Ottawa v. Ontario (Information an...