Sitting in the audience at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2009 conference (wiki, Twitter stream, blog, upstream live broadcast) today, I’ve heard several speakers try to discuss how privacy relates to concepts like national security, surveillance, information security and Web 2.0 applications. At the core of each discussion is an ongoing (some would say never-ending) debate: does privacy come at the expense of this other “X” element?
Read moreEvery opportunity I get, I question young Canadians on why they share so much information so freely and so widely when using online sites and services. Being an aged adult, I often frame my questioning by citing the negative consequences that over sharing can produce: job loss, identity theft, even physical risk.
Read moreThe Office recently issued a fact sheet on the use of online social networks in the workplace, and their impact on the privacy of employees and individuals.
Read moreHow comfortable, exactly, are online users with their information and online browsing habits being used to track their behaviour and serve ads to them?
Read moreAs we mentioned earlier, Twitter is where everyone seems to be these days.
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We each have personal limits when sharing information online. Sometimes these limits can seem arbitrary or illogical, and sometimes they’re just funny.
Read moreDid you know it’s Privacy Awareness Week in the Asia Pacific Region? If you’ve got young people in your life, who you’re trying to impart the privacy-awareness message to, have them check out the three-minute video, featured on our YouTube channel, that the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) launched to mark the week.
Read moreTwitter. That’s right; I’m going to talk about Twitter, making the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada the official end point for the “Have you heard about Twitter?” meme. (For a quick summary of this meme, listen to this audio from a podcast called Jordan Jesse Go!)
Read moreOnce again, folks from the Office attended “Canada’s web conference”, MESH 2009, in Toronto – a place where flacks, marketers, hackers, people with money to spend, people looking for money, and activists gather and talk about how the web is “affecting media, marketing, business and society as a whole”.
Read moreToday the OPC issued Captured on Camera, a fact sheet intended to help Canadians understand the privacy issues surrounding street-level imaging applications like Google StreetView and a similar product offered by Canpages.(html), (pdf)
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