Monday, January 31, 2011

Avoid ATM skimmers, use a hotel key card instead

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Bank card skimmers and scammers are a pretty resourceful bunch. While people are becoming increasingly vigilant about skimming hardware bein...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Nova Scotia review officer considers investigation of WCB over misdirected file

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Last week, the Halifax Chronicle Herald reported that the provincial Workers' Compensation Board mistakenly sent the wrong person's ...
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Personal Health Information Act for Researchers

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I was invited to give a presentation to staff and physicians at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax on the impact of the new Personal Health In...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act bill one step closer to (warrantless) surveillance state

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Want to know one reason why the Canadian government's proposed Bill C-52, referred to as the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Elect...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Your smartphone could be your most dangerous possession, so secure it

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After a decision out of California which found that police are able to rummage through all your portable electronics incident to arrest, muc...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Arizona hospital fires employees for snooping on records of shooting victims

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Various media outlets are reporting that the Tucson University Medical Center has fired a number of employees for inappropriate accessing m...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Profile of Quebec's new access and privacy commissioner

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Quebec's new access and privacy commissioner, Jean Chartier, is profiled in the Montreal Gazette: New privacy commissioner to focus on ...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Privacy year in review (2010): Caselaw

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This is the second in multi-part series of postings looking back at the year 2010 in privacy in Canada. (For an overview of legislative chan...
Monday, January 03, 2011

Privacy year in review (2010): Legislation

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This is the first in multi-part series of postings looking back at the year 2010 in privacy in Canada. Legislation Bill 89: Personal Heal...
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...