‘Mr. X’ wins right to argue PS privacy case anonymously
Ottawa Citizen – Ontario, Canada
In her ruling, Prothonotary Mireille Tabib said confidentiality orders should be exceptions and narrowly defined to protect both individual privacy rights …
Gunning for privacy
Toronto Sun – Ontario, Canada
The federal privacy commissioner’s office has also said the envelope markings don’t break privacy laws. “We haven’t been presented with any concrete …
Province refuses to release salaries for appointed officials
Ottawa Citizen – Ontario, Canada
Officials said “personal privacy concerns” prevented them from releasing Alvin Curling’s salary as co-chairman of the review. The report was due in May at a …
European standoff over search engine data
International Herald Tribune – France
By Kevin J. O’Brien BERLIN: For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with US Internet search engines, trying to get them to …
PRIVACY, SAFETY BALANCE AT ISSUE As information on sex offenders …
Kennebec Journal – Augusta,ME,USA
BY BETTY ADAMS AUGUSTA — Managing sex offenders in an age of ubiquitous Internet access and intense citizen scrutiny proves challenging for most states, …
Principles of privacy
Melbourne Herald Sun – Australia
Meanwhile, the Education Department refuses to name the teachers who have been reprimanded, or the schools where they teach, for “privacy” reasons. …
Opinion: In the tech industry, small isn’t beautiful anymore
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
That leaves the only real objection to the Google-Yahoo! alliance as consumer privacy. There may be valid privacy objections to Google’s activities; indeed, …
Why Google’s Chrome is the new privacy pariah
Emirates Business 24/7 – Dubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Internet privacy is not a new talking point, but occasionally something happens to reinvigorate the furore it inspires. By now you must have heard of Chrome …
Police: Pa. landlord spied on 34 female tenants
The Associated Press
19 on charges including wiretapping and invasion of privacy. Detectives have since searched his other apartments and recovered videotapes, …