Privacy Commissioner of Canada awards $407923 for research and …
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release) – Ottawa,ON,Canada
Ottawa, June 23, 2008 —The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, today announced that nine organizations will be awarded a total of $407923 …
How to safely use Facebook and LinkedIn at work
ITBusiness.ca – Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
Experts – including Ontario Privacy Commissioner, Ann Cavoukian – offer some great suggestions. The virtual flood gates have been opened and social …
EU Commissioner Promises Eagle Eye For Privacy Issues
Mediapost.com – New York,NY,USA
Privacy watchdog Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, took Kuneva’s remarks to signal that new European laws are on the …
Outsourced marketing greatest UK privacy threat
Current IT news from heise online – London,UK
A new data privacy study conducted in the UK by the Ponemon Institute for StongMail shows considerable confusion about data privacy measures, coupled with …
Doctors’ privacy vs. patients’ safety
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee,WI,USA
The doctor has appealed, citing privacy, even though he testified about his problems during a public hearing to revoke his medical license. …
Privacy and online health records
SmartBrief – Washington,DC,USA
There are three distinct reasons to avoid online health records, the greatest of which is the potential for privacy breaches, says a Minnesota resident and …
German Data Privacy Standards Slipping, Hacker Group Says
Deutsche Welle – Germany
Nowadays, the Chaos Computer Club is one of the most vociferous defenders of data privacy in Germany. It’s a right the group says is being dangerously ..
Italian Institute for Privacy Urges European Parliament to Support …
ITNews – Roma,Italy
The Italian Institute for Privacy (www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/en/), a public policy think tank focused on improving privacy protection in the digital …
Tuesday editorial: Compromising on privacy
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – MO, United States
Privacy advocates, including many liberal Democrats, argued that the provisions of the 1978 FISA law — wherein judges of the secret FISA court had to …
Contactless payment cards raise security, privacy concerns …
CreditCards.com – Austin,TX,USA
Contactless payment systems may literally be the wave of the future, but a coalition of consumer groups is urging caution to protect privacy and security …
AISD faces privacy lawsuit
News 8 Austin – Austin,TX,USA
“While we had certainly hoped that the district and the Attorney General’s office would have respected the privacy of individual citizens, we’re now forced …