The NY Times features a story that provides a closer examination of cybercrime claims. It finds that “widely circulated cybercrime estimates are generated using absurdly bad statistical methods, making them wholly unreliable.”
Archive for April 16th, 2012
B.C. Privacy Commissioner Calls for Mandatory Data Breach Reporting
B.C. Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has called on the province to amend its privacy law by adding mandatory data breach reporting requirements. Her office investigated 500 privacy breach cases last year alone.
Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government: A Review
David Eaves reviews the recently released Canadian government Action Plan on Open Government, which contains some notable commitments on open licensing and tinkering with access to information.
Supreme Court of Canada Wiretap Decision Signals Need for Changes to C-30
The jurisprudence is clear that an important objective of the prior authorization requirement is to prevent unreasonable searches. In those exceptional cases in which prior authorization is not essential to a reasonable search, additional safeguards may be necessary, in order to help ensure that the extraordinary power is not being abused. Challenges to the authorizations at trial provide some safeguards, but are not adequate as they will only address instances in which charges are laid and pursued to trial. Thus, the notice requirement, which is practical in these circumstances, provides some additional transparency and serves as a further check that the extraordinary power is not being abused. In our view, Parliament has failed to provide adequate safeguards to address the issue of accountability in relation to s. 184.4. Unless a criminal prosecution results, the targets of the wiretapping may never learn of the interceptions and will be unable to challenge police use of this power.