The Industry Minister tabled the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) in Parliament at the end of last week.
Here’s the government’s press release and backgrounder:
Government of Canada Protects Canadians with the Electronic Commerce Protection Act
OTTAWA, April 24, 2009 — The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, today announced that the Government of Canada is delivering on [...]
Michael Geist’s most recent Toronto Star Column addresses the fine print in ISP customer agreements that purport to permit the ISP to hand customer names and addresses to the police without a warrant.
Read Michael’s column:
Scott McNealy, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has achieved considerable notoriety for having warned Internet users ten years ago that [...]
The Sun in the UK is reporting that a cheating husband has been caught by his curious wife after she checked out a friend’s house on Google Street View and noticed her husband’s Range Rover parked in front of the house. She says he was supposed to be away on business at the time, which [...]
Google has just sent webmasters who use Google’s AdSense a notice suggesting that privacy policies need to be updated because the ad service is going to be much more targeted. Here’s what landed in my inbox:
Hi,
We’re writing to let you know about the upcoming launch of interest-based advertising, which will require you to review and [...]
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is calling for implementing privacy filters to mitigate part of the damage to privacy caused by whole body scanners that are appearing soon in an airport near you.
IPC – Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario Whats New Summary
Whole Body Imaging (WBI) technologies – which have been [...]
According to CanWest, the Privacy Commissioner is taking Air Canada to court over access to customer information that the airline claims is covered by solicitor-client privilege:
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner is taking Air Canada to court to compel the airline to release records involving a so-called “unruly” customer, arguing passengers should be able to know [...]
The LA Times’ blog “Dish Rag” is reporting that fifteen employees of Kaiser Permanente have been fired and eight disciplined for looking at the medical records of Nadya Suleman (aka the Octomom).
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“We always provide training on the importance of patient privacy and confidentiality,” hospital rep Jim Anderson told . “We knew from the time she [...]
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of , wrote a few weeks ago a provocative piece “”, arguing that in our Google-driven data-rich era (”The Petabyte Age”) the good old “approach to science —hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete”, leaving place to a purely correlative vision of the world. There is a good dose of provocation [...]
