CPR for Friday, December 12, 2008

RCMP, privacy commissioner looking into missing mailed passport ... Cape Breton Post - Cape Breton,Nova Scotia,Canada In addition, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is now expanding her examination of security problems at Passport Canada to include transportation ...

Missing Canadian Passports
ShortNews.com - Regensburg,Germany
It has been stated by Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart that “Given the high sensitivity of the personal information involved in processing passport ...

Proposed Bill Aims to Crack Down on Spam
The Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
At the Privacy and Identity Theft Conference held recently in Vancouver, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said Canada's lack of anti-spam legislation ...

Privacy by Design Challenge:
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... something that everyone concerned about privacy can embrace, rather than fear, says Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner. ...

Sony BMG Music Pays FTC $1 Million for Violating Child Privacy Laws
Statesboro Business News - Statesboro,GA,USA
If you have news or press releases about a Statesboro or Bulloch County Georgia business, or news on a business coming to Statesboro Ga please let us know. ...

YouTube launches 'safety center'
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
YouTube also says that the resource guide will make it more straightforward to find out how to manage privacy and safety settings. ...

CPR for Thursday, December 11, 2008

Sensitive passport applications go missing at Canada Post CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada ... passport applications, better privacy and security measures are needed," Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said in her report issued Dec 4. ...

CDT to Obama: advent of "the cloud" makes privacy laws dated
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
The advocacy group is calling for major revision of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and the Privacy Act of 1974. ...

US sues Sony Music over children's online privacy
Reuters - USA
The civil suit, which seeks unspecified monetary penalties, said Sony Music was in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, ...

Review: Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 adds speed and privacy
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Preston Gralla December 10, 2008 (Computerworld) Firefox 3.1 may only be a point release -- from 3.0 to 3.1 -- but its just-released Beta 2 version is a ...

Bailiff admits to privacy blunder
BBC News - UK
A bailiff group has apologised for the "accidental release" of hundreds of e-mail addresses to the recipients of a debt-chasing message. ...

CPR for Wednesday, December 10, 2008

New Privacy Rules Set After Va. Tech Killings
Washington Post - United States
The department modified regulations to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to give schools more latitude in defining a potentially dangerous ...

Google Flu Trends spreads privacy concern
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request asking federal officials to disclose how much user search data ...

DHS creates privacy principles for scientific research
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
The Department of Homeland Security in a data mining report (PDF) sent to Congress Monday laid out a set of principles for implementing privacy protections ...

Microsoft Will Discard Search Data Sooner If Rivals Do Same
PC World - USA
Privacy activists warn that search engine data can reveal a plethora of information about a person and is retained for far too long by companies. ...

CPR for Tuesday, December 9, 2008

ID theft feared with new BC driver's licences
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
And Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says she fears the cards may leave people vulnerable to similar breaches of privacy, which could allow ...

Internet video goes to the movies
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... Hamilton Tiger Cats owner Bob Young, Toronto-based science-fiction author Karl Schroeder and Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart. ...

Education Department Reworks Privacy Regulations
Wall Street Journal - USA
Timothy M. Kaine to study the event found that confusion over privacy laws kept university administrators from sharing details about Mr. Cho's troubling ...

DHS will use new privacy-protection principles
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
By Ben Bain The Homeland Security Department today announced several new privacy protection principles that DHS’ Science and Technology Directorate will use ...

GPS tracking of high credit-risk drivers: Good practice or privacy ...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
But it still would be a gross violation of the buyer's privacy. Current GPS tracking systems allow for a remarkable degree of surveillance. ...

Firefox 3.1 gets some privacy
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
Firefox 3.1 beta 2 is the first chance the public has had to use Mozilla's long-awaited privacy feature. Private Browsing works similarly to Google Chrome's ...

Microsoft Offers to Reduce Search Data in Europe
New York Times - United States
By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN BERLIN — Microsoft offered Monday to abide by a European privacy panel’s request that it reduce the length of time it kept records of ...

CPR for Monday, December 08, 2008

Ars Technica

MySpace gripe about patient sparks federal privacy complaint
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Under HIPAA's privacy rules—except under specific authorized circumstances—health care providers may not share medical information when "there is a ...

EU's unlikely partner for data privacy review: Google
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
By John Timmer | Published: December 07, 2008 - 04:30PM CT The EU is looking into whether its privacy regulations need to be updated to bring them into line ...

Passport applicants at risk of major privacy breaches, federal ...
Globe and Mail - Canada
Passport offices are playing fast and loose with intimate information about citizens, federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said yesterday in her ...

Privacy Commission Warns Passport Personal Data Is At Risk AHN - USA Ottawa, Ontario (AHN) - In her yearly report, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart underscored the manner Passport Canada loosely handles the documents of ...

Survey: The best privacy advisers in 2008
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
This was the third year asking this question (see "The best privacy advisers in 2007" and "The best privacy consultancies"), so we're now able to see some ...

Cal Poly Pomona apologizes for privacy breach
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP POMONA, Calif.—Cal Poly Pomona has apologized for an error that made the personal information of nearly 700 people available on the Internet. ...

CPR for Friday, December 5, 2008

National Post

Passport offices putting personal info at risk, privacy audit finds
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Darren Stone, Canwest News Service - A new report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found that passport offices, such as this one in Victoria, BC, ...

Privacy Issues Given Short Shrift in Passport Operations and ...
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release) - Ottawa,ON,Canada
Ottawa, December 4, 2008 — Privacy concerns are not given enough weight in the day-to-day operations of a number of federal government institutions, ...

Passport office problems threaten privacy: watchdog The Canadian Press - OTTAWA OTTAWA — The federal privacy watchdog says Canadians applying for passports face serious security risks - including identity theft - because of weaknesses ...

City hall e-mail hacking report released
Georgina Advocate - Keswick,ON,Canada
... report on its e-mail system after five complaints to Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian, the Vaughan Citizen has learned. ...

European Court Rules Against British DNA Database
New York Times - United States
Privacy experts say that this represents a higher proportion of its population than do similar databases in other countries. “They’re in the vanguard of ...