ID theft feared with new BC driver’s licences
Vancouver Sun – British Columbia, Canada
And Canada’s privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says she fears the cards may leave people vulnerable to similar breaches of privacy, which could allow …
Internet video goes to the movies
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
… Hamilton Tiger Cats owner Bob Young, Toronto-based science-fiction author Karl Schroeder and Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart. …
Education Department Reworks Privacy Regulations
Wall Street Journal – USA
Timothy M. Kaine to study the event found that confusion over privacy laws kept university administrators from sharing details about Mr. Cho’s troubling …
DHS will use new privacy-protection principles
FCW.com – Falls Church,VA,USA
By Ben Bain The Homeland Security Department today announced several new privacy protection principles that DHS’ Science and Technology Directorate will use …
GPS tracking of high credit-risk drivers: Good practice or privacy …
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
But it still would be a gross violation of the buyer’s privacy. Current GPS tracking systems allow for a remarkable degree of surveillance. …
Firefox 3.1 gets some privacy
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
Firefox 3.1 beta 2 is the first chance the public has had to use Mozilla’s long-awaited privacy feature. Private Browsing works similarly to Google Chrome’s …
Microsoft Offers to Reduce Search Data in Europe
New York Times – United States
By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN BERLIN — Microsoft offered Monday to abide by a European privacy panel’s request that it reduce the length of time it kept records of …