Former privacy czar seeks to stop legal proceedings, restore …
Globe and Mail – Canada
The main motions will be an attempt to invalidate the evidence obtained by the RCMP from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, given the RCMP did not use …
Wording in eHealth bill undercuts privacy promises
Vancouver Sun – British Columbia, Canada
… Health Minister George Abbott asserted that the disclosure directives outlined in the bill allow patients adequate protection of privacy. …
Privacy takes supremacy
Calgary Herald – AB, Canada
I disagree most strongly with Sudhir Jain. He criticizes the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision upholding individual rights and freedoms by finding that …
Officials tried for months before privacy breach to secure …
CanadaEast.com – Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
The provincial Health Department tried at least three times to tighten security over its Medicare records a year before it was plunged into a privacy crisis …
Mortgage Broker Sues Lenders in Privacy Breach
Washington Post – United States
By Ellen Nakashima LendingTree, an online mortgage broker that claims to have reached more than 20 million customers, had a privacy breach that exposed …
Expectation of privacy a precious right
Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
Are telecoms and other corporations paid to betray our privacy? We need answers to those questions and more. What I witnessed is just one strand in a …
Online Privacy: The Path to Common Ground
InternetNews.com – USA
By Kenneth Corbin: More stories by this author: As I tap out a news story about the latest dustup over consumer privacy on the Internet, I find a formula to …
States faulted over privacy breaches; tighter security urged
The Associated Press –
While some of the biggest and most spectacular privacy breaches in recent years have happened at large corporations, state governments have also mishandled …
Genetic Data Bill Lacks Privacy Protections, Advocate Warns
iHealthBeat – Oakland,CA,USA
Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, said the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, approved last week by the Senate Health, Education, …