Appeared in the Toronto Star on January 22, 2007 as Privacy Breaches Expose Flaws in Law Privacy took centre stage in Canada late last week as TJX Cos., the parent company of retail giants Winners and HomeSense, disclosed that as many as two million Canadian credit cards may have been […]
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Privacy
Canadian Security Breaches
Lots of coverage today on two major Canadian security breaches – 470,000 Canadians hit by a CIBC security breach, while two million credit cards may have been captured in a hacking job against Winners, a clother retailer.
Privacy Commissioner Launches New Contributions Program
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has launched this year's contributions program, supporting both research and an NGO conference.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
My colleague Ian Kerr offers a lyrical and thought-provoking look at what we can expect of the reasonable expectation of privacy.
The Law of Search Engines
As part of a visit to the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law (where I'm teaching a course on Internet governance; media coverage here for those that read Hebrew), I participated yesterday in a terrific conference on the law of search engines. While there was predictably considerable discussion on all […]