Thursday, May 23, 2013
Time to beef up federal privacy law, says Stoddart Privacy commissioner says organizations are displacing privacy rights, wants power to levy fines and to require organizations to report loss of personal information
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Mozilla hot under the collar over Firefox spoofing Report by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab that U.K. firm's spyware masquerades as Firefox prompts complaints from browser creator Mozilla
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Lost client data not encrypted: IIROC Device which contained the personal information of some 52,000 brokerage firm customers was password protected but the data itself was not encrypted
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Enshrine data breach guidelines in law: Stoddart Of the 3,134 breaches experienced by government departments between 2002 and 2012, only 399 were reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Social media firms rapped on knuckles on privacy A parliamentary committee complains about companies that don't want to respect our privacy law. However, it only recommends the privacy commissioner work with them
Monday, April 15, 2013
Focus on bring-your-own-liabilities Organizations need to pay attention to the potential legal issues associated with BYOD technologies, according to lawyer Arvind Dixit
Friday, April 12, 2013
Insurance regulator loses data of 52,000 people The Investment Industry Regulation Organization of Canada said it will immediately beef up internal security after losing the personal data of brokerage clients
Monday, March 25, 2013
Ad firms urge Firefox to rethink cookie ban Online advertisers voice opposition to Mozilla's do-not-track plan for soon-to-be-released, Firefox 22
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
4 U.S. Internet laws you should know Bone up on four laws dealing with digital content that are either being debated or expected to come up for consideration by U.S. lawmakers
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
5 nations, 5 firms named ‘enemies of Internet’ Reporters Without Borders call for controls on export of surveillance tools to countries flouting fundamental rights
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Bill calls for mandatory data breach reporting Private members bill by NDP MP Charmain Borg “kickstarts” dormant private sector privacy reform, according to privacy advocate
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Conservatives abandon Internet surveillance bill Government “listens to Canadians” and backs down on heavily criticized Bill C-30 
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Service offers social media protection for enterprise A cloud service that scrambles text or files now offers a version that organizations can use to oversee staff use of the technology
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
What you should know about Facebook's data use policy vote If users allow a new data use policy from the social networking giant, they'll lose the right to vote on governance issues and much more, says Graham Cluley on the Naked Security blog
Thursday, November 08, 2012
The social media audience grows up The test-subject generation for the social media experience is maturing, argues Forbes contributor Matt Miller
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Big data and the legal profession: the jury is in Lawyers are now able to use predictive analytics to determine outcomes in the same way other businesses are
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Twitter correlation tool can home in on users Maltego can bring together public information quickly and create profiles of social media users, says creator
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
French agency: No Facebook privacy breach It was users who were unaware that they were posting information publicly, says watchdog group
Monday, October 01, 2012
ITU head tries to clear air on upcoming meet Hamadoun Toure says December's international telecom conference isn't about taking control of the Internet, but skeptics remain
Monday, October 01, 2012
Time to rein in political parties on privacy? It's time to make Canadian politicians ask for consent to use the email addresses of voters who communicate with them, argue a newspaper and a privacy lawyer
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Info leaks on Canadian sites: Privacy Commissioner A research report conducted over the summer into major Canadian Web sites find that 11 out of 25 are leaking personal information to third parties
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Privacy policies need more than words: Cavoukian That privacy policy sitting proudly on your organization's Web site will collect digital dust if it isn't policed, says Ontario's privacy commissioner
Thursday, August 30, 2012
More arrests in Sony hacking case IT WORLD CANADA CURATED The suspect will appear before an Arizona court on Sept. 14
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Google bolsters privacy team IT WORLD CANADA CURATED Google posts want ad for "privacy engineer"
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Google pays record fine for Safari tracking ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: It cost the search engine US$22.5 million for falsely telling Safari users it wouldn't place tracking cookies on their devices or serve them targeted ads