Blind voters fight for privacy at polls
Ottawa Citizen – Ontario, Canada
SASKATOON – When Robin East steps into a voting booth on Oct. 14, he’d rather mark his X with nobody looking over his shoulder. …
Ex-privacy czar committed errors, not fraud, trial told
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
OTTAWA–Former privacy commissioner George Radwanski made errors and may have been “haughty” with employees, but his lavish hospitality spending and expense …
Liberal Democrats break privacy law
Public Servant Online – Staffordshire,UK
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the Liberal Democrats to be in breach of communications privacy law. The party’s use of automated …
Cell phone cameras create privacy issue
Chicago Daily Herald – Chicago,IL,USA
More than a decade after a landmark federal law laid out the rules health providers must follow to protect patient privacy, glitches and downright …
The new Face of privacy is pretty public
Times Online – UK
The case only dealt with the issue briefly, so it threw little light on how Irish courts would balance the constitutional right to privacy against an …
Student Privacy Spotlighted in Va.
Washington Post – United States
By Brigid Schulte School officials in the City of Manassas admitted this week that they skirted federal privacy laws when they divulged personal information …
Lost in the Fine Print: It Would Take a Week to Read All Your …
Washington Post – United States
It would take the average American about 42 hours — an entire work week — to read the online privacy policies for the Web-sites they encounter each year, …
Broadband Providers Vow to Protect User Privacy
eWeek – New York, NY
25 with the nation’s largest broadband providers scrambling to tell Congress there is no need for new laws to protect user privacy. …