Access to information meeting should be public,experts urge
Ottawa Citizen – Ontario, Canada
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is scheduled to speak at a separate review of privacy issues also being held at the exclusive Rideau Club. …
Student Loses Cell, Privacy When Nude Pics Are Posted
NBC4i.com – Columbus,OH,USA
By Donna Willis COLUMBUS, Ohio — A local young woman lost both her cell phone and her privacy, NBC 4 reported. The student victim lost her phone on the …
$350000 Grant to Help Protect Digital Privacy
School Library Journal – USA
ALA’s new privacy initiative begins during its annual conference in Anaheim, CA, in June. On June 29, a forum titled “Privacy: Is it Time for a Revolution? …
Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy
New York Times Blogs – New York,NY,USA
It’s the only one of the big Internet companies that doesn’t put a link to its privacy policy on its home page. Indeed, Google believes so strongly that …
Privacy Advocates Raise Concerns Over Hospitals’ Use of Patient Data
California Healthline – Oakland,CA,USA
San Francisco attorney Khaldoun Baghdadi said California’s medical privacy act is “designed to prevent patients from being used as a marketing database,” …
Privacy watchdog opposes giant telecoms database
Out-Law.com – London,England,UK
Privacy expert Dr Chris Pounder of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM, said that the plan would involve greater central Government power and …
Telekom Breaks More than Privacy Laws in Criminal Spy Case
Deutsche Welle – Germany
Deutsche Telekom broke more than privacy laws in the criminal spy affair, said legal expert Thomas Hoeren. But without tighter corporate sanctions, …
Charter, Google face privacy scrutiny over third-party BT
DM News – New York,NY,USA
In fact, search engine Ask.com got attention in December 2007 when it launched Ask Eraser, a tool that explicitly lets users control their privacy while …
Genetic screening safeguard creates unforeseen inequalities …
Atlanta Journal Constitution – GA, USA
This is evident when examining the statutory language of some state genetic privacy laws, which invoke strong notions of privacy originally embraced in the …
Critics cite privacy concerns over DC surveillance plan
Examiner.com – USA
WASHINGTON (Map, News) – The District’s plan to centralize 5600 security cameras creates the potential for privacy abuses such as those occurring in New …
Phone Giant in Germany Stirs a Furor
New York Times – United States
By MARK LANDLER FRANKFURT — Germany was engulfed in a national furor over threats to privacy on Monday, after an admission by Deutsche Telekom that it had …
Patients, privacy rights advocates outraged that patient info used …
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
“It feels like an invasion of privacy,” she said. “If I’m sick and I go to a doctor, I don’t want them telling anybody about it. My disease is not for sale. …
Germany shocked by new privacy invasion scandal
AFP –
BERLIN (AFP) — Germany has been hit by another privacy scandal, with telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom joining discount food chain Lidl and the state among …
Deutsche Telekom admission triggers privacy debate
International Herald Tribune – France
By Mark Landler FRANKFURT: Germany was engulfed in a debate over privacy standards Monday following an admission by Deutsche Telekom that it had …