Monday, February 25, 2013

Commissioner expands HRSDC breach investigation to Justice Canada

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The Toronto Star is reporting that the Privacy Commissioner's investigation of the loss of a USB device containing the sensitive persona...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Password protect your phone if you care about your privacy: What R v Fearon means

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The portions of the twitterverse that I follow were abuzz yesterday with posts about how, in Canada, the police can search your cell phone w...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

HRSDC appears before Parliamentary Committee to account for massive data breaches

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Representatives of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources,...

Despite the Silicon Valley boogeymen, the Canadian government is the greatest threat to your privacy

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Jesse Brown at Macleans.ca has had a great series of four posts on his blog there, which highlight that despite all the attention being lav...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Lawful access dead, says Justice Minister

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According to the CBC, Bill C-30 is officially dead and any replacement measure will not have a provision for warrantless access to customer ...
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Friday, February 01, 2013

BC hospital employees point to privacy concerns to prevent outsourcing of transcription services

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Once again, a public sector trade union is using supposed privacy concerns as a lever to prevent outsourcing: Hospital Employees’ Union requ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

PIPEDA Finding: In joint investigation with Dutch DPA, Commissioner finds WhatsApp didn't comply with Canadian privacy laws

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Earlier this week, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released its report of findings against the popular, cross-platform instant messaging ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Happy data privacy day!

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Today is international data privacy day . I am sure there'll be some interesting content posted through the day around the world to ackn...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Members of the privacy community demand transparency from Skype/Microsoft on disclosure of user information

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A group of civil society organizations and privacy activists are calling upon Microsoft and Skype to be much more forthcoming about Skype...
Friday, January 25, 2013

HRSDC to provide credit protection for those affected by missing hard drive

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HRSDC has decided to do the right thing -- which it should have done one day one: provide credit protection services to the more than half a...
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