UNBC investigated for exploitation of Privacy Act.
Prince George Citizen – Prince George,British Columbia,Canada
… coincided with UNBC choosing to detain the graduate student in 2006, is related to the suspected breach by UNBC of the Privacy Act ( RS, 1985, c. …
Greater good a threat to privacy By Peter Duffy
TheChronicleHerald.ca – Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
It was a victory for proponents of privacy as well as advocates for those with mental illnesses. However, those cheers may be short-lived because, …
More electronic records pulled after privacy advocate finds Social …
Montrose Daily Press – Montrose,CO,USA
An Arkansas privacy advocate alerted Montrose County Clerk and Recorder Fran Tipton Long last week that Social Security numbers contained on liens and …
Privacy fears over car database
BBC News – UK
Privacy International said the database offered the police “extraordinary powers of surveillance”. About 10m journeys per day are currently being recorded …
Fears over privacy as police expand surveillance project
guardian.co.uk – UK
Human rights group Privacy International last night described the five-year record of people’s car journeys “unnecessary and disproportionate”, …
Pew study: cloud computing popular, privacy worries linger
Ars Technica – Boston,MA,USA
Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology pointed out that courts have traditionally refused to recognize any Fourth Amendment privacy …
Do ISPs pose a bigger online privacy threat than Google?
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
But in reality, said university professor Paul Ohm, the potential for the same kind of activities by ISPs poses a much greater privacy risk. …
Google bends to privacy critics on Chrome tool
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
Google had been taking heat from privacy advocates over the Google Suggest feature in OmniBox, Chrome’s combination address and search bar. …
Questioning Google’s Privacy Reform
Slashdot – USA
If your site, with all the traffic you see, is keeping logs then we should just completely give up on trying to get Google to improve it’s privacy policy …