CPR for Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Privacy Commissioner’s 2007 Annual Report on PIPEDA to be Tabled
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release) – Ottawa,ON,Canada
Ottawa, June 2, 2008 – The Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s 2007 Annual Report on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

Lack of basic privacy and security measures causing major data
Canada NewsWire (press release) – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Tabling of Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s 2007 Annual Report on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act OTTAWA,

Companies underestimate threat of data spills, says privacy
CBC.ca – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said many companies continue to leave laptops unprotected without proper firewalls and encryption.

The semantics of privacy
IT World Canada Blogs – Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
Splitting hairs and arguing semantics over your customers’ privacy is trivializing something very important. Identifying the customer premise is good enough

Guard your privacy
Ottawa Citizen – Ontario, Canada
Privacy rules are important, but they can’t stand in for common sense and individual responsibility. A legal clinic based at the University of Ottawa has

Health Information Technology Legislation Stalled by Privacy Concerns
Kaiser network.org – Washington,DC,USA
Legislation that would promote the adoption and standardization of health information technology is “knotted up” in Congress over privacy issues,

Privacy advocates, lawmakers criticize citywide camera plan
Examiner.com – USA
Lawmakers and privacy advocates lambasted District officials Monday for rushing a plan to unify the city’s 5200 surveillance cameras under one network

Surveillance cameras: Council stresses need for privacy
Delaware News – Delaware,OH,USA
“It’s important as you’re doing your research we’re able to address the issue of protection of privacy. … It should be something that our policies are

Privacy Principles for Digital Watermarking
Center for Democracy and Technology – Washington,DC,USA
CDT released a paper this week offering a set of principles for addressing potential privacy considerations when deploying digital watermarking technology.

Facebook’s privacy policies investigated in Canada
BetaNews – USA
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews The federal privacy commissioner in Canada is now investigating allegations that Facebook may be illegally collecting personal

Facebook Investigated In Canada Over Shady Privacy Policy
Portal IT – Bucharest,Romania
Facebook’s privacy policy managed to make some enemies over in Canada. The social networking has been accused of illegally collecting personal information.

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