Privacy Commissioner comes to Moscoe’s aid
Globe and Mail – Canada
Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian wrote yesterday to the councillor for Ward 15, Eglinton-Lawrence, to tell him personally that, …
Harper government battles for PMO privacy
Winnipeg Sun – Canada
By THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Federal government lawyers are in court battling a principle that Prime Minister Stephen Harper championed during the last …
Outcry over BitTorrent blocking stretches to Canada
BetaNews – USA
The Ottawa-based CIPPIC has now asked Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart to examine how Bell and other Canadian ISPs — including Rogers …
Bell Canada’s use of deep packet inspection triggers complaint …
FierceCIO – Washington,DC,USA
The complaint was filed by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) with Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart. …
Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL
InternetNews.com – USA
AOL’s top privacy watchdog talks about how online data collection really works, balancing data and consumer privacy, and the government’s role. …
Google counters European privacy laws by blurring faces for Street …
ComputerWeekly.com – UK
Google is countering European privacy laws over its forthcoming Street View service by blurring the faces of people caught by its cameras, …
Privacy campaigner posts 6m personal details online
ZDNet UK – UK
An anonymous hacker has posted six million details of Chilean residents online in a bid to highlight data-protection problems in the country. …
Bell Canada’s use of deep packet inspection triggers complaint …
FierceCIO – Washington,DC,USA
By Paul Mah Bell Canada’s use of deep packet inspection (DPI) technologies has resulted in a complaint raised over the potential invasion of privacy. …
Internet service providers put user privacy at risk
IT Week – London,UK
Not surprisingly, this has many privacy advocates up in arms. To be fair to Phorm, it contends that its service does not store any of the information it …