The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is offering up to $50,000 for year-long projects that will advance privacy knowledge in one year, the office announced yesterday. Looking for proposals that specifically deal with Canada’s
A record number of complaints and freedom of information requests were made to the office of Ontario's privacy commissioner last year, according to the commissioner's annual report released today.The 277 privacy complaints closed
Published on: June 4th, 2012
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Canada's federal privacy commissioner says Nexopia still hasn't done enough to meet privacy laws and is willing to take the youth-oriented social networking site to federal court over the matter.Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart'soffice
Published on: March 1st, 2012
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The following is an excerpt from Commissioner Cavoukian’s keynote presentation at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium on May 5, 2011. Privacy by Disaster is what you get when you don’t do Privacy by
In her blog post today on ITBusiness.ca, Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian calls for her privacy by design philosophy to be applied to mobile devices and applications.For the past decade, Cavoukian has been
Published on: March 15th, 2011
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Privacy experts area applauding a bill currently before parliament that would require Canadian businesses to disclose when they lose customer data, but saying it must go further and also put penalties in place.
A careless engineer and failure to follow procedure are to blame for private e-mails being read by Google Street View cars driving through Canadian neighbourhoods, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner says. Google
Most Canadian Facebook users describe themselves as cautious about their privacy and have adjusted their settings accordingly, according to a new poll conducted for ITBusiness.ca.A little more than half of survey respondents selected
Elizabeth Denham played a key role in the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's public consultations held over the spring and summer.The assistant commissioner at the time, Denham explained in this ITBusiness.ca video that the
Published on: August 24th, 2010
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Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has harsh words for those not making privacy a priority -- namely Facebook and public organizations in Ontario that neglected to encrypt sensitive data.Facebook failed to
Privacy commissioners at the federal and provincial level are both honing their approach to the challenges of protecting personal information rights in a digital age. Technology is often seen as either a way
Saying Canadians are addicted to Facebook isn't an exaggeration. Download the Podcast. Seven million Canadians have a profile on the social networking site – which means about one in five of our population
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