Rising demand for criminal background checks raises alarm
Vancouver Sun
David Loukidelis, BC's privacy commissioner, also noted that employers face the burden of maintaining confidential information. “You're going to end up with ...

Calgary merchants say cameras making downtown safer
Calgary Herald - Calgary,AB,Canada
Alberta's privacy commissioner, Frank Work, is on record as saying the cameras don't help. "His point of view is that these kinds of cameras don't really ...

Top doc: Flu threat not over
Toronto Sun
Responding to concerns raised by the Sun, Ann Cavoukian's office investigated why some clinics -- notably in Ottawa and Toronto -- swiped information not ...

Facebook tightens privacy controls
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... Canada but around the world — will be far better protected," federal privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said at a news conference in Ottawa on Aug. ...

Facebook launches new privacy settings
CP24, Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... Facebook's privacy policy posted in late October, which were in part based on recommendations filed by Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. ...

BC government releases details how it will conduct privacy-breach investigations
Victoria Times Colonist
The two internal reviews, as well as an independent inquiry by Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis are more than sufficient, he said. ...

Government violated its privacy policy: watchdog
CBC.ca
BC privacy commissioner David Loukidelis says he plans to investigate why it took seven months to notify the victims in a government privacy breach. ... 

Advice to briefcase-losing Alberta minister: 'Be careful'
Edmonton Journal - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
“Be careful,” said Wayne Wood, a spokesman for commissioner Frank Work. “If you've got a briefcase and it's got important documents, then leaving it on the ...

Opinion: Ministry treats scandal's victims shabbily
Victoria Times Colonist
There are no less than four reviews into how this could have happened, including one by BC Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis. One day soon, at what will ...

Google offers a whole new view
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
Federal privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has asked Google to improve its blurring technology, and to create a means for complainants to get pictures ...

A colossal waste of court time; Information commissioner battles challenges by ...
Kelowna.com
Information commissioner David Loukidelis is seeking a $400000 legal budget to cover the growing number of court challenges to his rulings by the BC government ...

Breach calls for an independent inquiry
Victoria Times Colonist
The independent information watchdog David Loukidelis is investigating the breach itself. Loukidelis is constrained by law to only one half of the problem. ...

Public has a right to know
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
The RCMP and privacy commissioner David Loukidelis are also investigating. It's a wrong-headed approach. Governments and corporations have learned that when ...

Muddling through privacy and the social Web
ZDNet (blog)
I'm at the Privacy and the Social Web panel at Supernova, featuring lawyer/moderator Kraig Baker, Harriet Pearson (Security Counsel/Chief Privacy Officer, ...

Man charged in privacy breach had criminal past
Vancouver Sun
Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis is conducting a fourth, independent review of the privacy breach and the government's response. ...

US Sued by Privacy Group Over Use of Facebook, Twitter Data
Bloomberg
... to “help inform Congress and the public about the effect of such uses and purposes on citizens' privacy rights and associated legal protections. ...

11 Reasons Why Privacy Helps the Bottom Line
Law.com
Because the influence of privacy on profit is not immediately apparent, managers searching for excisable fat will doubtless be attracted to the privacy ...  

2nd BC public servant fired for welfare privacy breach
CBC.ca
Two BC public servants have been fired following a breach of privacy rules, the provincial government admitted Thursday. (Sam Bufalini/CBC) Two BC civil ...

Employee in privacy breech stayed on the job 7 months after discovery
Vancouver Sun
The employee was suspended last month when Citizens' Services Minister Ben Stewart said he first learned of the privacy breach. A short time later, ...

Toronto subway suicide numbers released
Times of the Internet
The Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner ruled on the side of the Toronto Sun, which argued the publicly funded commission had no right to withhold ...

Despite stats, publicity still bothers Mihevc
Toronto Sun
Mihevc agreed to speak about suicides in the transit system after the Office of the Privacy Commissioner ordered the TTC to release its suicide numbers to ...

Privacy law helps the government hide
Victoria Times Colonist
It was a good example of how privacy law has vastly enhanced officials' first inclination to say "no" to every request. So it's very enlightening to see how ...

Google, EBay Wanted as Prisoners of Privacy Wars
Bloomberg
Bedrock principles in one nation's culture and law, say, free speech, barely count in a nation that values some other principle more, like privacy. ...

US-Canada to share refugees' biometric info
Canada.com
Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, had expressed a series of concerns about the biometric data sharing when the plan was first announced in ...
 
Finance watchdog fails privacy test
PS News
Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart raised the issue in her annual report to Parliament. Commissioner Stoddart said Canada's financial institutions ...

Edmonton mayor concerned about missing laptops
Edmonton Journal
Provincial information and privacy commissioner Frank Work has said he's “stunned” by how the city has handled the issue, explaining “I'm just amazed this ...

Editorial: Weighing in on Ontario's new jury rules
Law Times - Aurora,Ontario,Canada
The move is somewhat surprising given that it was less than two months ago that Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian issued a highly critical report on the ...

Internet providers to monitor for child porn: Are you afraid your privacy may ...
CBC.ca
By POV The federal Conservative government plans to introduce legislation this week requiring internet service providers to take a more active role in ...

Your Comments: Facebook faceoff
CBC.ca
Facebook was the catalyst for two big Canadian news stories this week, as the popular social networking site continues to ignite debate about privacy issues ... 

Smart grids drag utilities into the swamp of online privacy
Nextgov
The smart grid is rapidly becoming a reality in the US, as utilities have been installing networked monitoring and control equipment, both in their own ...

Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Privacy
EFF (blog)
Another down-side to the proposed settlement is its lack of adequate protections for reader privacy. And although EFF has repeatedly written about the ...

Health gets personal in the cloud - O'Reilly Radar
By Brian Ahier
I'm no fool about this - almost two years ago I wrote the totally skeptical What's next, Google Health? about privacy concerns, ulterior motives, etc. But a year later I wrote I'm putting my data in Google Health. Why? ... 

Canada's no-fly list compiled without adequate info
Canada.com
... with federal regulations for safeguarding the "specified persons list," Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart concluded in an audit, released Tuesday. ...

Quebec woman's Facebook insurance battle highlights need for online prudence
The Canadian Press
Levy, a London, Ont. based independent technology analyst, said any notion that there is privacy on these types of platforms is laughable. ...

Planned medical privacy rules redundant, says commissioner
Edmonton Journal
Information and Privacy Commissioner Frank Work said the bill isn't needed. Paramedics are already able to share information with police under the Health ...

New law worries privacy boss
Calgary Sun
Frank Work said Bill 62, which calls for changes to the province's Health Information Act, could create confusion over whether medics should be treating ...

Calgary police chief says new law that lets EMS share info is necessary
The Canadian Press
Hanson was responding to a news release by Alberta's privacy commissioner, Frank Work, who argues the new amendment isn't necessary. ...  

Facebook members are spooked by friendly ghosts in the machine
Globe and Mail
This clarification was one recommendation Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart made after investigating complaints. She has said she is "satisfied" with ... 

Privacy Concerns Temporarily Block Children's Letters to Santa Claus in 2009
Associated Content
... finally came off Santa's mailbag on November 21, but the United States Postal Service has tightened privacy restrictions for letters from children to Santa.

Letters to Santa will make it to the North Pole afterall
Examiner.com
"It was just a decision we had to make based on privacy concerns, and it is labor-intensive. But it's still nice that we're able to resume this and still ...

  

Lost laptops shock watchdog
Edmonton Journal - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
I just don't have words for this," information and privacy commissioner Frank Work said Thursday. "I'm just amazed this has been going on so long without ...

Missing laptops in Edmonton stuns privacy commissioner
Kelowna.com - Kelowna,British Columbia,Canada
"I'm just stunned," said information and privacy commissioner Frank Work. "The troubling thing is, because they only investigated 50%, I assume they don't ...
  
Privacy concerns over release of BC patient medical data
www.kamloopsnews.ca - Kamloops,BC,Canada
“I'm asking him (privacy commissioner David Loukidelis) to investigate this incident and standards at Interior Health Authority. This is not a small leak of ...

Privacy training a must for frontline workers, says Ann Cavoukian
ITBusiness.ca - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
Includes VIDEO Offering frontline workers training in privacy policies and practices is absolutely crucial, says Ann Cavoukian, Ontario Information and ...

New ASU Research Lab Will Focus On Data Privacy Worldwide
Arizona State University - Tempe,USA
Ann Cavoukian, creator of the Privacy by Design concept and the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has been fundamental in establishing the ...

Health Net says 1.5M medical records lost in data breach
Computerworld
"I will demand immediate answers and action, including at least two years of comprehensive identity theft protection for consumers," he said. ...