Carleton boss defends keeping Nadia’s secrets
Ottawa Citizen – Ontario, Canada
The letter comes days after Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian said universities can disclose students’ personal information in “compelling …
IT security lessons from Chrysler’s data loss
Computerworld – Oslo,Oslo,Norway
A spokesperson for federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart told ComputerWorld Canada Wednesday that its office has received about 50 inquires from …
Privacy commissioner seeks ‘quick fixes’ to Act
TheChronicleHerald.ca – Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Jennifer Stoddart, in an interview Wednesday with The Canadian Press, acknowledged that a minority Parliament may not be the best place to completely …
Ritz in hot seat over CWB ethics
Saskatoon Western Producer (subscription) – Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
In letters to privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart and ethics commissioner Mary Dawson, Easter complained that even after CWB president Greg Arason told …
Life before privacy
The Province – Vancouver,BC,Canada
Joey Thompson’s column on suicide alerts mentioned that one family member has asked for changes to privacy laws and policies that bar medical experts from …
California court posting personal data in documents, privacy …
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
By Jaikumar Vijayan May 1, 2008 (Computerworld) Privacy advocates claim that Social Security numbers, medical histories, tax records, bank account data and …
Government puts Italians’ tax returns on the Internet, privacy …
International Herald Tribune – France
But the experiment provoked a storm of protests over privacy rights. And a top official in Italy’s outgoing government was forced Thursday to defend his …
Facebook and privacy
BBC News – UK
I’ve always been pretty relaxed – both because I’m very careful about how much information I give away, and because I think I know my way around privacy …
Genetics and privacy Hands off, maybe
Economist – UK
And health is not the only area where genetic privacy is under assault. The more interesting side of the story, insists Hank Greely of Stanford University, …
Income tax secrets go up online — and promptly come down amid fury
Times Online – UK
The country’s privacy watchdog ordered the national tax office, the Agenzia delle Entrate, to suspend publication on its website of personal information …
UCSF waited six months before telling patients of data breach
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
“This is a large and very significant data breach,” said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit public interest research and …