Canadian govt investigating agency hack of woman’s Net connection
ITProPortal – London,UK
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart’s office is quoted as saying, however, that government agency operatives do have supervisory access to the …
Former beer pitchman in pornography and privacy court battle
Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
TORONTO – The trial of a former television pitchman could be a precedent-setting case in deciding the privacy rights of Internet subscribers who are the …
EU whacks Google privacy policy
Infoconomy – London,England,UK
Yesterday, Google’s global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer – playing the role normally filled by Microsoft’s Brad Smith – insisted that keeping data …
Phone data transfers to FBI heighten privacy concerns
Boston Globe – United States
… a Michigan Democrat, sent a letter to colleagues citing privacy concerns over one of the Quantico circuits and demanding more information about it. …
Fight for privacy unleashes publicity
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Because of an apparent attempt to protect their privacy, hundreds of thousands of people were introduced to the Borings over the past several days. …
Effectiveness of medical privacy law is questioned
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — When Congress passed a federal medical privacy law more than a decade ago, …
Labor to revamp Privacy Act
Australian IT – Australia
THE Rudd Government is ready to overhaul the 20-year-old Privacy Act and build a privacy regime to serve modern Australia, Special Minister of State John …
In libraries, privacy or common good?
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
But more incredible are the justifications offered by some “progressives,” who defend the library’s dismissal of the single mother of two on privacy grounds …
Parliament backs new law to boost internet privacy in Pridnestrovie
Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review – Tiraspol,Moldova
A new law in Pridnestrovie will boost the privacy of internet users by making it a crime to release the content of private communications. …
Press watchdog to probe privacy of online social networking
HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk – UK
by holdthefrontpage staff Newspaper watchdog the Press Complaints Commission is conducting research into public attitudes to privacy in relation to social …
EC Group Could Spur Search Privacy Sea Change
E-Commerce Times – USA
By Erika Morphy A working group of the European Commission has issued some stringent recommendations about privacy policies that are likely to make Google …
Search engine activities threat to privacy, say commission officials
EUobserver.com – Brussels,Belgium
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Search engines should not hold on to personal data at the end of six months due to privacy concerns, the European Commission’s data …
Washington Times Examines Medical Record Privacy Issues
Kaiser network.org – Washington,DC,USA
Privacy consultant Robert Gellman said, “There is a lot of promise about medicine going to electronic records. Those who are promoting it talk about its …
Employers defy privacy by using Facebook
Tennessee Journalist – Knoxville,TN,USA
In online environments, privacy settings are a more common form of consent. Zuckerberg gives users multiple privacy settings to choose from. …
Medical records of Congressional Privacy Caucus Chairman
OhMyGov! – Washington,DC,USA
In an ironic twist of fate, the medical records of the co-chairman of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, Rep. Joe Barton, and 3000 other people were stolen …
Schwarzenegger calls for better privacy protections
Tampa Bay’s 10 – St. Petersburg,FL,USA
SACRAMENTO, CA — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling on hospitals to do a better job protecting their patients’ privacy. …