Victims Of Cyberattacks Get Proactive Against Intruders
“There is no way that we are going to win the cybersecurity effort on defense,” says Steven Chabinsky, formerly the FBI’s top cyber-attorney. “We have to go on the offensive.”…
Does Our Data Need a Canadian Passport?
Even as more and more data and data services are located ‘out there’, industry analysts and observers remind that the cloud providers are physical entities, often located in other countries.…
Google’s Consolidated Privacy Policy Draws Fresh Fire In Europe
The regulators stopped short of saying Google was acting illegally but published a list of privacy recommendations for Google, including suggesting the company should make it clearer to users how…
EU privacy regulators take aim at Google privacy policy
Google last year consolidated 60 privacy policies into one, combining data collected on individual users across its services, including YouTube, Gmail and social network Google+. Users cannot opt out. Reuters
New BC Services Card raises privacy concerns
B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has approved the introduction of the cards, but said the planned expansion of the program to connect the cards to databases through touchpads…
Province refuses to release unsafe employer information
Catherine Taylor, a senior portfolio officer with the FOIP commissioner’s office, reviewed the department’s refusal at the request of CBC. But even before Taylor began the review, the department told…