In response to my recent Toronto Star column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) defending PIPEDA, Canada’s privacy law, the paper today features a debate over the arguments presented in that column. Professor Richard Owens argues that PIPEDA "tarnishes lawmaking, impedes business unnecessarily and threatens constitutional disorder", while […]
Archive for February, 2004
Warren’s Washington Daily
OECD Holds Global Spam Summit
Canada badly needs a national standard
The costs associated with privacy protection have long been a source of considerable debate. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner, who together with the Toronto Star’s Tyler Hamilton wrote The Privacy Payoff, maintains that good privacy practices are actually good for business. In my column of January 19, I argued maintaining […]
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