A warning to webcam users
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The kids are alright: innovative ways youth protect their privacy online
“Privacy is about much more than just solving technical issues of access control. That is not how people live and experience privacy. Privacy is in many ways about controlling the social situation.” – danah boyd
Read moreCybersecurity Awareness Month 2014
October 1st marked the start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s an opportunity to share tips and tools to help people stay more safe and secure online.
Read moreFrom APP-laudable to dis-APP-ointing, global mobile app privacy sweep yields mixed results
Back in May, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) embarked upon its second annual Privacy Sweep, this time with a focus on mobile apps.
Read moreIt’s back to school!
Looking for ways to kick the school year off right?
Read moreAn update on our Internet privacy sweep
Last month, we released the initial results of our Internet privacy sweep. You can read the original blog post to see what we observed. (We should note here that the screenshots and references in that blog post reflect what we saw online during the sweep and were still in place when we originally blogged about the sweep results on August 13.)
Read moreInitial results from our Internet Privacy Sweep: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
You might recall, a few weeks back our Office led and participated in the first annual Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) Internet Privacy Sweep.
Read moreFixing leaky faucets: Raising the bar of privacy protection
“Web leakage” research and follow-up work by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has resulted in improvements to the privacy practices of some popular Canadian websites.
Read moreA First-Person-Sweeper Perspective
Yesterday, our Office participated in the first ever international internet privacy sweep. An initiative of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN), the sweep is a coordinated effort among a number of data protection agencies to address a particular privacy issue. This year’s sweep assessed transparency online.
Read moreGrappling with the impact technology is having on privacy
This week is Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) – a global effort, coordinated by members of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA), to raise awareness about the value of privacy and the importance of protecting it.
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