Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Privacy Commissioner looks for stronger enforcement powers, ability to levy fines

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Today, the Federal Privacy Commissioner appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

White paper compares government access to cloud data in ten jurisdictions

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In the last week, law firm Hogan Lovells released a very interesting white paper on government access to cloud data across ten jurisdiction...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Globe & Mail: Lawful Access bill should be sent back to the drawing board

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John Ibbitson's column in the Globe & Mail suggests that Bill C-30 should be sent back to the drawing board since it will never be p...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Cloud Computing and the Patriot Act: A Red Herring?

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The 2012 International Association of Privacy Professionals Canada Symposium has just wrapped up. I had the pleasure of giving a presentati...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Privacy icons a la creative commons

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A group of law students have put together a scheme of icons to describe in a succinct way a website's privacy practices (much like the c...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Alberta Court of Appeal finds applying provincial privacy law to picket-line activities unconstitutional

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You may recall in September of last year when the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench declared portions of the province's Personal Inform...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

FBI seeking wiretap-ready internet, like Canada

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There's a lot of buzz around the internet on the FBI's quiet effort to have the Communications Assistance to Law Enforocement Act ex...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Alberta Commissioner faults Calgary police employee for logging into colleague's personal e-mail account

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The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta has found that a civilian employee violated the province's public sec...
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Friday, April 27, 2012

CSIS oversight and accountability to be slashed to save $1M

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One of the arguments made in favour of Bill C-30 by the government when it was introduced was that it had accountability: Internal audits an...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

RIM reportedly gives Indian government access to full range of BlackBerry messages

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The Toronto Star is reporting that RIM has agreed to provide the Indian Government with access to the full range of Blackberry communication...
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