Privacy Act: Creating a Modern Law for the 21st Century
Parliament passed Canada’s public sector privacy law back in 1982 – the same year the Commodore 64 computer hit the market. At the time, both were considered pioneering.
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Social Networking and Privacy
Chatting, texting, blogging and spending time on sites like Facebook and Myspace are part of everyday life for millions of students.
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Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, recently spoke to the Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo. (video available in several formats)
Read moreFleischer on Google, Privacy and Consumer
We heard from Peter Fleischer, the Chief Privacy Officer for search company Google, on Friday.
Read moreAnother point of view on data retention
Stepping away from the privacy advocate’s point of view, I point you to a blog post by Patricia Seybold. She discusses, at length, how Google and other search engines are dealing with questions about privacy and data retention. Importantly, she provides us all with a clear explanation of what data she expects to be retained from her online activities, and what she expects can be done with that data:
Read moreProfessor Geist on video
As we mentioned earlier this week, Professor Michael Geist spoke at the closing session of the Conference. He noted that we already live in a world where surveillance is common place, and our personal data trail crosses borders and oceans and lives in countless databases.
Read moreA confrontational challenge
As the Conference drew to a close, Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa provided a brief but complete summary of the week’s discussions.
Read moreChild Protection Online
Among the many interesting sessions held on Thursday, conference attendees discussed child protection online. The video of this session will be available next week, but we include some highlights below:
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Privacy and Security: Not Necessarily a Battle to the Death
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We’ve shoehorned over 600 delegates into the conference rooms at the Sheraton Centre in Montreal. Our day began with speeches from:
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