Monday, December 31, 2012

Privacy commissioner to investigate HRSDC privacy breach

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According to a report in the London Free Press, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada appears to be planning to investigate the a...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Government "loses" sensitive personal information on thousands of Canadians

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Over the past week, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has been notifying approximately 5000 people that their personal informati...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Lawful Access: There, I fixed it for you.

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Regular readers of this blog will know that I am not a fan, at all, of the government's lawful access bill, Bill C-30. In particular, I ...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Be prepared for cloud computing, it's the future of data accessibility

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I was interviewed yesterday on Radio Canada International, the CBC's international arm, on privacy, security and cloud computing from a ...

Beware of juice-jacking: That free charge may not be entirely free

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Here's a tip for you, just in time for the holiday traveling season: Be cautious about where you plug in your phone or other smart devic...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Keeping data in Canada provides illusory protection against foreign government access

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I was invited by CATA to give a presentation on cloud computing, privacy and cross border data flows for a number of its members and stakeho...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

German privacy regulators tell Facebook to allow pseudonyms. Really?

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According to Techcrunch, German privacy regulators have ordered Facebook to cease enforcing its "Real Names" policy in that countr...
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Monday, December 17, 2012

Vancouver health authority employee fired for snooping on celebrities' records

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An employee of Vancouver Coastal Health has been fired for snooping on the records of a number of local celebrities. The employee needed rou...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Privacy Commissioner calls for stronger enforcement powers

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Until now, the discussion about giving the Privacy Commissioner stronger enforcement powers has been pretty low key. The conversation has ra...

Why privacy matters even when you have 'nothing to hide'

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Daniel J. Solove, noted privacy scholar from George Washington University law school, has a very good essay in the Chronicle of Higher Educa...