Wednesday, August 18, 2010
India may put restrictions on Skype and Google The country wants its security agencies to have access to online and mobile communications
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
RIM may allow India to monitor instant messenger service Research in Motion Inc. of Waterloo, Ont. has already indicated that it will not be possible to change the security architecture of its BlackBerry enterprise service
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
EU plans to limit its use of private personal data The war on terror won't become a war on privacy, the European Commission says
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Bluetooth at heart of gas station credit-card scam A gas station worker in Florida discovered fraudsters placed a credit card skimming device in the gas pump that reads data over Bluetooth networks. The Secret Service is investigating
Monday, July 05, 2010
Don’t use the Patriot Act as an excuse Canadians are quick to use the U.S.A. Patriot Act as an excuse to avoid cloud computing, but they might not know many of the same laws already exist in Canada. Privacy lawyer David Fraser highlights the similarities at an OPC-hosted event
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Police facial recognition comes to the iPhone There’s an app for law enforcement identity management. It’s called the Mobile Offender Recognition and Identification System, otherwise known as MORIS
Friday, May 28, 2010
Kudos for anti-spam bill, concern over PIPEDA changes Experts welcome the re-introduction of the federal anti-spam bill. But they've got serious reservations about proposed changes to Canada’s privacy law
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
After Google-China fracas, cyberwar threat emerges Cyberthreats face the U.S., but it's not a war -- yet
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
IRS, DOJ use social media sites to track deadbeats The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents showing how U.S. law enforcement agencies and the Internal Revenue Service are gathering information from social networking sites for their investigations.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Toronto Police Services digitizes videos for fast access The video services unit’s Digital Video Asset Management System (DVAMS) makes handling the annual influx of 54,000 evidence videos less tedious while granting immediate access to police officers regardless of location. WITH VIDEO
Thursday, October 01, 2009
OPINION: What you don’t know about lawful access The Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act creates too much opportunity for abuse by intelligence and security organizations. Why telecom carriers are naïve about the Technical Assistance for Law Enforcement in the 21st Century Act
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wikipedia censorship case sends 'confusing' message A British lawyer says the question of what is an indecent image in that country has not been helped after an Internet watchdog reversed its decision on blocking an entry on the popular online encyclopedia
Monday, December 01, 2008
My tech-related wishes for the Obama administration When he takes office next month, President-Elect Barack Obama should re-evaluate the copyright legislation and enforce ‘Net neutrality. Why the new president should reconsider link sharing requirements.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
U.K. slows plan for sweeping electronic surveillance Government will consult on scheme to collect data on public electronic communications instead of trying now to implement a law. Critics complained that creating a "super database" of the origins and destinations e-mail, phone calls and Web site visits would be an invasion of privacy
Monday, October 13, 2008
Kaspersky hunts for hackers down under IT security software firm opened its first Australian lab this week to work with law enforcement agencies, customers and resellers
Monday, October 13, 2008
U.K. appeals court rejects encryption key disclosure defense Defendants argued that revealing a digital key to a hard drive would give police incriminating evidence. But the court said an encryption key is the same as a physical key to a locked drawer -- a neutral object. The contents of the drive (or drawer) is what could be incriminating
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
New coalition wants to go Batman on cybercrime With financial support from the likes of Bell, Rogers and Microsoft, the newly formed NCFTA hopes to boost cybercrime research and development in Canada. Read what some of the organizations involved had to say
Monday, June 16, 2008
Opinion: Breach laws fail to protect anyone With security breaches at major companies frequently in the news, legislators feel pressured to pass laws to protect consumers. No politician wants to be viewed as being soft on identity theft. However, legislatures have not passed proactive laws that would prevent theft, but reactive ones that impose substantial burdens on companies.
Monday, January 07, 2008
Patriot versus PIPEDA: A second opinion Two laws stand on completely different philosophical ground. Two lawyers tell us what happens when they collide.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Online crime fight needs more than law enforcement Raising awareness around online security, not only among government and law enforcement agencies, but among Internet users can be as important as catching Internet criminals. Toronto-analyst Alicia Wanless offers her perspective on cyber crime and how to empower users through education.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Feds fend off cyber crime with funding schemes Despite a recent report highlighting the need for government to strengthen efforts to fight the growing problem of cyber crime, the Ministry of Public Safety says it's on track with its commitment to counter online criminals. Public Safety spokesperson Philip McLinton details what these initiatives are.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
MySpace says it wont release sex offenders' names Citing federal and state law prohibition, MySpace.com is refusing to provide the names of registered sex offenders found using its Web site to a group of state attorneys general. "We are doing everything short of breaking the law to ensure that the information about these predators gets to the proper authorities," said Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer at MySpace.com, in an e-mail to Computerworld.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Microsoft helps fight online child abuse in India Microsoft Corp. is working with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and the international police force Interpol to help fight online child abuse in India. 
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
MySpace takes steps to root out sex offenders Stepping up efforts to keep sex offenders off MySpace.com, the popular social networking Web site has partnered with an online identity and background verification company to build a U.S. national sex offender database and dedicate staff to checking the database against MySpace profiles.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Tips to thwart ID thieves When it comes to putting data and identity thieves in their place, Peter Costa says there’s no room for being Mr. Nice Guy. “Have a public hanging... they have to know you’ll go after them,” says Costa, who heads up enterprise security at GE Consumer Finance - Americas.