Privacy Commissioner Concerned with Ticketmaster’s Privacy …
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release) – Ottawa,ON,Canada
OTTAWA, April 18, 2008 – Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart expressed concern with the information collection and privacy practices of a major …
Privacy the latest victim of Tory CWB battle
Winnipeg Free Press – Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
However, it is quite another issue to flout privacy laws in a bid to gather personal information about individual farmers who market through the board. …
Doctors must guard privacy
Hamilton Spectator – Hamilton,ON,Canada
Many Canadians use personal shredders to protect themselves from identity theft and other invasions of privacy. How can a doctor not be aware of the …
NJ’s top court to rule on Internet privacy
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark,NJ,USA
by Tom Hester/The Star-Ledger The New Jersey Supreme Court is prepared to rule today on the issue of whether an Internet user has the right to privacy …
Google going soft on its privacy pledge?
CNET Blogs – Cupertino,CA,USA
European regulators cut Google some slack based on its word that it was going to immediately look into ways to boost privacy. A year into that pledge, …
EU privacy report urges Internet search engine providers to limit …
Creative Mac – Newport Beach,CA,USA
A European Union privacy panel on Wednesday urged Internet search engine providers like Google Inc., Yahoo and MSN to delete data taken from users after six …
Effort to reduce privacy breaches faces obstacles
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) – Milwaukee,WI,USA
Last week, Metavante Corp. released a study of the state’s privacy practices at Gov. Jim Doyle’s request, and in recent months major state agencies have …
The Spy in the Coffee Machine: (The End of Privacy as We Know It …
Times Online – UK
The “abolition of privacy” was the stated intention of the horrible Marxist sociology professor Howard Kirk in The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury’s novel of …
Reverse Phone Lookup Searches and Your Online Privacy Rights
Los Angeles Chronicle – CA, USA
If you value the privacy of your own personal information, then you know exactly what is meant here – a lot of information can be discovered about you using …
Know Your Privacy Rights – Nighttime Telemarketing Is Illegal
Los Angeles Chronicle – CA, USA
This law is a part of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act – something you may wish to become familiar with to know your privacy rights against unethical …
Health privacy ‘at risk’
Melbourne Herald Sun – Australia
The Melbourne physician says patient privacy is compromised in the overdue HealthSMART project. He believes it will reveal intimate information “to …
Doctor Blogs and Patient Privacy
InjuryBoard.com – Tampa,FL,USA
A recent article on the NPR website raised several valid concerns about doctor blogs and the impact they have on patient privacy. According to the article, …
‘What good is the privacy law if government warehouses data’
WorldNetDaily – Grants Pass,OR,USA
“If this bill becomes law, each year 73000 newborn citizens will not be protected by the state genetic privacy law. The [state] will take their DNA and …
Privacy and Property Rights
American Thinker – Bellevue,WA,USA
The word “privacy” cannot be found in either the Declaration of Independence or in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The word “private” occurs …
Electronic Personal Health Records Raise Privacy Concerns
Newsinferno.com – New York,NY,USA
There is not a lot of research being conducted on how PHRs compare with other types of medical records or how privacy concerns over PHRs are to be addressed …
No Easy Answers For Data Privacy
Internet News – Fallbrook,CA,USA
By Kenneth Corbin: More stories by this author: WASHINGTON — In the great Internet privacy wars, where so much of the debate takes place through prepared …