According to a study by the Ponemon Institute and reported in Forbes today, there is a large disconnect between marketing departments and those charged with overseeing privacy compliance. This underscores the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to privacy within large organizations.
What Privacy Policy? – Forbes.com
…In response to a survey answered by 500 privacy and 900 [...]
I’ve been overwhelmed by the number of questions I’ve received in response to “Ask the privacy lawyer“. Some of them are too specific and would cross over the line between legal advice and educational. But I got this question, which is relatively generic and probably is something that many people have to deal with:
HI – [...]
The Smoking Gun is reporting that an IRS employee is being charged with a misdemeanor offence after having been found to have looked at hundreds of celebrities records “out of curiosity”.
MAY 30–An Internal Revenue Service employee snooped on the tax records of about 200 celebrities and athletes, confessing to investigators that he accessed the confidential [...]
Upcoming changes to the Dot-CA domain name directory, which are designed to protect the privacy of registrants, are causing concerns among police and IP lawyers who have used the directory as a very easy way to track down the owners of dot-ca domain names:
Move to protect Canadians’ Internet privacy irks police
By SEAN PATRICK SULLIVAN
The Canadian [...]
As March Break is almost in full swing, it’s timely to read Compterworld’s recent . State sovereignty usually means that a country has total control over who and what gets in and traditional searches are being extended to laptop searches. This makes sense on one level but seems futile as any traveller can upload ilicit [...]
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has completed a review of the exempt databanks maintained by the RCMP and has concluded that many of the records should not be there in the first place. She calls it “disturbing”:
Large number of files mistakenly held in RCMP exempt data banks “disturbing,” says Privacy Commissioner
Commissioner tables first special report [...]
Here’s a really great read from Bruce Schneier:
Schneier on Security: Security vs. Privacy
If there’s a debate that sums up post-9/11 politics, it’s security versus privacy. Which is more important? How much privacy are you willing to give up for security? Can we even afford privacy in this age of insecurity? Security versus privacy: It’s [...]
Boing Boing reports that Consumerist reports that the Washington Post reports that US Customs are continuing their practice of requiring some travellers to log into their laptop computers and provide data to the government. In some cases, they`re confiscating the computers on a promise of returning them in a few days. This is problematic from [...]
