Government & Public Sector

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Reports of online identity theft scams known as "phishing" attacks were up again in December, when more than 1,700 active phishing Web sites were reported, a 10 percent jump from the previous month, according to data released Thursday by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

When creating a corporate privacy strategy, Canadian companies should look to the Germans for simplicity, said Ontario privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian at a breakfast talk in Toronto yesterday.

The Hamilton Police Service has launched a new Web site with input from community members and key stakeholders across the police organization. The new site is designed to engage local residents more directly in community-based policing initiatives and to help the Hamilton police collaborate more effectively with partners.

Private messages exchanged using corporate BlackBerry wireless devices may not be quite so private after all. In fact, even the so-called PIN messages that many users thought were untraceable can be logged. The lack of BlackBerry privacy became clear in a lawsuit filed in Toronto this week by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). The bank submitted scores of BlackBerry e-mails and PIN messages as evidence that several former executives took confidential information from the company and tried to recruit others while they were still employees of the bank.

At least one expert in corporate ethics has welcomed Nortel Networks Corp.

The City of Ottawa has completed the implementation of a new