A Canadian parliamentary committee will today consider possible disciplinary action, including potential dismissal, against Canada’s privacy commissioner following a hearing on Monday into the office’s expenditures. The committee expressed concern over allegations of tampering with committee evidence and a $100,000 travel tab that included a nine-day stopover in Hawaii en […]
Archive for June, 2003
U.S. Extends Its Hegemony over the Internet
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last week wrote an intriguing column titled "The Theory of Everything," in which he sought to explain the escalating global resentment toward the United States. Friedman suggested that throughout the 1990s the U.S. became exponentially more powerful economically, militarily, and technologically than the rest of the world.
Speech, Choice & Cyberspace
American Library Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON
Canadian Court Rules It Has No Jurisdiction over PIPEDA
A Canadian Federal Court has ruled that it does not have jurisdiction to address an appeal of a Canadian Privacy commissioner decision. The case involved an employment dispute and disclosure of information to a trade union, which the court ruled fell under the exclusive jurisdiction of a labor arbitration panel […]
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Unhappy With Alberta Bill
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has sent a letter to the Province of Alberta noting his concern with the recent privacy bill introduced by the government. Much like the concerns expressed over the British Columbia bill, the Commissioner does not believe the Alberta bill meets the federal law’s substantial similarity test. see: […]
