Post Tagged with: "privacy"

Time Expires for Facebook Privacy Compliance

Canwest reports that the clock has run out on Facebook complying with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's privacy finding.  The Commissioner now has two weeks to go to court to obtain an order requiring compliance. Update: Facebook is reportedly ready to file a plan to address the Commissioner's issues by […]

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August 17, 2009 4 comments News

Privacy Commissioner Issues Finding Against U.S.-Based Abika.com

Not sure how I missed it, but the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently issued a well-founded finding against Accusearch, which does business as Abika.com.  The case is noteworthy since CIPPIC went to the Federal Court to force the Privacy Commissioner to launch its investigation (the case raised interesting jurisdictional questions).  […]

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August 13, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Pippa Lawson on Privacy

Pippa Lawson, former Director of CIPPIC, writes an op-ed for the National Post that calls for stronger enforcement of Canadian privacy laws.

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August 7, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Google Canada on Privacy and Technology

Google Canada's Jacob Glick has an op-ed in the National Post that discusses Google's approach to privacy.  It arguest that "privacy is best protected by good product design."

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August 6, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Privacy Commissioner Finds Facebook Violating Canadian Privacy Law

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released its long-awaited finding (media release, finding, backgrounder) in the complaint against Facebook on a variety of privacy grounds.  The complaint was launched by CIPPIC in May 2008 (note that I am an advisor to CIPPIC but had no involvement in […]

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July 16, 2009 16 comments News