Ontario and BC Privacy Commissioners offer guidance to …
Canada NewsWire (press release) – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
This morning, Ontario’s Ann Cavoukian and BC’s David Loukidelis released a Joint Practice Tool for Exercising Discretion – Emergency Disclosure of Personal …
E-mail attack on professor ignites privacy debate at U of O
Canada.com – Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
… a Yahoo e-mail address, but the e-mail itself, and how it was circulated, has faculty and students abuzz over privacy issues and academic freedom. …
Personal genomics requires redefining privacy The human blueprint …
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
The real concern facing consumers of personal genomics lies in the potential for a total loss of privacy, not just for the consumers themselves, …
Google’s growth makes privacy advocates wary
Monitor – McAllen,TX,USA
A bigger long-term concern for Google could be criticisms over something less tangible – privacy. Increasingly, as Google burrows deeper into everyday …
Google changes JotSpot privacy settings after complaint
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
Google said on Friday that it was modifying the privacy settings on its JotSpot online collaboration service after a researcher discovered that user e-mail …
New privacy row over lost data
guardian.co.uk – UK
The government was embarrassed by another data-loss scandal last night when the private details of up to 12 million people were put at risk after a memory …
Privacy watchdog slams databases, year of data loss
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
By Siobhan Chapman October 30, 2008 (Computerworld UK) The number of data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has soared to 277 …
Published Privacy Impact Assessments on the Web
TMC Net – Norwalk,CT,USA
SUMMARY: The Privacy Office of the Department of Homeland Security is making available eleven (11) Privacy Impact Assessments on various programs and …
Privacy inquiry over Obama’s aunt
Irish Times – Dublin,Ireland
THE DEPARTMENT of homeland security is investigating whether its privacy rules were breached after a report emerged that Barack Obama’s aunt has been living …