CPR for Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Yahoo will purge user data after 90 days; Ups privacy anteZDNet – USAIn particular, Google and Yahoo have been playing a game of privacy leapfrog. There are some differences between…
Privacy and Information Security news stories affecting Canada and the Fediverse.
Yahoo will purge user data after 90 days; Ups privacy anteZDNet – USAIn particular, Google and Yahoo have been playing a game of privacy leapfrog. There are some differences between…
Briefs: Ad research at Disney; Google privacyNewsday – Long Island,NY,USAAfter privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its…
EU vows no privacy breaches with US visa accordsReuters – USAHowever some EU lawmakers have expressed concerns and called for specific guarantees that privacy will not be breached. Barrot called…
A blow to personal privacyToronto Star – Ontario, CanadaThe Toronto Star is right to be concerned about the “potential for privacy abuses” in the proposal to take DNA samples from…
Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’Think Progress – Washington,DC,USAChertoff’s comments have drawn sharp criticism from Jennifer Stoddart, the Canadian official in charge of privacy issues. “Fingerprints constitute extremely … Quebec…
A precedent on Internet privacyGlobe and Mail – CanadaAn Ontario Superior Court judge may rule as early as tomorrow in a precedent-setting Internet privacy case that could significantly set back…