Friday, May 13, 2011
Facebook admits running anti-Google campaign Social network admits to hiring PR firm to pitch stories about Google's privacy practices. Both Facebook and the PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, admitted Thursday to trying to get journalists and bloggers to write negative articles about Google's privacy practices
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
South Korea raids Google over illegal data collection Police say location information was illegally obtained from mobile app subscribers. Google has already come under fire in South Korea twice this year
Friday, April 29, 2011
Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking U.S. senators confirm both companies will answer questions about smart phone privacy at a May 10 inquiry
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Federal pay system breach shows bad security plan: analyst The security glitch in the federal government’s employee payment system illustrates the lack of an overarching strategy for the public sector’s IT infrastructure, said one analyst
Monday, April 25, 2011
Now on iTunes: Every Move You Make BLOGOSPHERE A file on your iPhone records that shows where and when you use location-based services. That's a privacy catastrophe waiting to happen, say bloggers
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
OLG uses biometrics to ban gambling addicts How the Ontario Lottery Gaming Corp. is using facial recognition technology to identify members of the Voluntary Self-Exclusion program and prevent them from entering casinos
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Tax season brings phishing threats Phishing attacks are often seasonal. It's tax season. Put two and two together and find out how scam artists are posing as the taxman
Monday, March 28, 2011
Breach of privacy case holds lessons for IT departments IT managers should heed the court ruling that found it to be a breach of privacy when police copied an employee’s hard drive without a warrant, even if child pornography was found. Why there must be a balance between corporate ownership and legal searching
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Health Net discloses loss of data to 1.9 million customers Server drives with personal, health and financial information go missing from an IBM-managed data centre
Friday, March 04, 2011
Beijing to track people via their mobile phones The plan is meant to relieve traffic congestion but could set off worries over privacy
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Mobile developer contests seeks to boost privacy ACLU leads the development competition, which seeks to address security on smart phones. Contest sponsors include the Tor Project, with the assistance of Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner’s office
Friday, February 04, 2011
Canon makes security a printing priority Printing and Imaging company Canon has released its new UniFLOWS v5, addressing enterprise security concerns
Thursday, January 27, 2011
U.S. senator calls for protections on device location Oregon senator Ron Wyden says he will introduce a bill to set rules for police access to mobile location information
Thursday, December 23, 2010
YEAR IN REVIEW: September 2010 This month Research In Motion made it clear there would be a Canadian entry in the tablet computer race, we found how spooky spooks can be and how smart Cambridge, Ont. is 
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
FTC calls for online do-not-track list to protect privacy Modeled on the telemarketing do-not-call list, the FTC says it will protect online consumers, since business isn't doing enough
Friday, November 19, 2010
MAILBAG: Up in the cloud A roundup of some of your recent comments on our stories on cloud computing, privacy and rural broadband
Thursday, November 18, 2010
What a DLP-mandated system might look like OPINION At the SC Congress security conference, Ann Cavoukian expounds on her privacy by design concept. How data loss prevention technology could be a critical element
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
What keeps Canada's Privacy Commissioner so busy Bills that would handle ompulsory breach notification, spam and modernizing the federal Privacy Act are just three of the items on Jennifer Stoddart's agenda. More from SC World Congress Canada 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
FTC closes investigation into Google's Wi-Fi snooping But a privacy advocate says Google's own flip-flopping on whether it collected data suggests the "a lot more to be done" to investigate the company's culture of data collection
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The problem with privacy? Security SECTOR 2010 In a room full of security pros, Tracy Ann Kosa argues that privacy issues are "all security's fault"
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Google 'carelessly' broke Canadian law: Commissioner The company is at fault for failing failure to follow procedure, says the privacy czar, who set a deadline for Google to meet her recommendations 
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Canadian privacy commissioner ends Facebook probe Facebook has resolved the privacy issues raised in a May 2008 complaint, the commissioner said
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Security concerns stifle mobile commerce: Survey KPMG surveyed 300 Canadians and found eight per cent have made purchases from retailers using their mobile phones. Fewer than one in five feel comfortable using their wireless devices for financial transactions
Monday, August 09, 2010
Saudi Arabia pressures RIM with renewed threat of ban A BlackBerry services ban, originally set for Friday, will now come into force Monday if there is no solution to the dispute
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Google's march toward social networking Amid some fits, starts, and failures, the search giant keeps pushing through social networking services. We recap the chronology of Google activity in the realm of social media