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“Crossing the picket lines” to privacy
Call off the strike, some trade unions are protecting more than their members’ collective bargaining rights. In fact, many unions have taken a proactive approach to privacy by creating policies that...
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Laptop Encryption: “I don’t know what we have to do to drive this message...
A summer incident involving sensitive personal information on stolen laptops has brought the issue of data protection once again into the crosshairs of Frank Work, the Alberta Information and Privacy...
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Are the media subject to PIPEDA?
Is there one set of privacy rules for regular businesses and one for the media? In a past case summary, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the “OPC”) found that a radio station which...
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Summer is over but “phishing” continues
BBC News is reporting that thousands of Hotmail accounts have been compromised in a phishing attack, which has reportedly affected at least 10,000 individuals. Phishing involves identity thieves...
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Privacy vs. security in the Internet age
The Federal Government’s recent initiative to modernize law enforcement related legislation for the Internet age has (at least within law enforcement and privacy circles) once again propelled the issue...
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“Identity theft” law comes into force
You may know someone who has been a victim of identity theft. What you may not know is that, before today, police couldn’t charge fraudsters with “identity theft”. That changed when Bill S-4 was given...
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Rogue employees pose risk to privacy compliance, corporate info
The U.K.’s Huffington Post is reporting that a rogue employee of a major mobile phone company has illegally sold millions of customer records to rival companies. Apparently, customers’ personal...
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Redactions gone terribly wrong
CTV News is reporting that the U.S. federal government improperly posted an internal guide to its airport passenger screening procedures on the Internet in a way that could offer valuable tools to...
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Manitoba private sector privacy legislation: An insurmountable goal?
University of Manitoba law student, Courtney Pope, has just drafted an in-depth paper (below) on Bill 219 – The Personal Information Protection and Identity Theft Protection Act. As I’ve previously...
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Mandatory privacy breach notification requirement inevitable
For years now, Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act has contained provisions requiring health custodians to notify individuals if their personal health information is stolen, lost or...
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Monitoring employee e-mail: A privacy primer
Since e-mail has become the dominant form of business correspondence, employers have been increasingly forced to deal with issues related to e-mail use, monitoring and access. It’s crucial that...
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Privacy folks crying wolf on scanners
Will the virtual strip-search scanners soon to be operational in Winnipeg’s Richardson International Airport be an invasion of privacy? Absolutely. Should they be installed despite privacy concerns?...
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A Conversation with Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada
I’m very pleased to be able to post the following conversation with Jennifer Stoddart. Since becoming Canada’s Privacy Commissioner in 2003, Commissioner Stoddart has undoubtedly raised the value of...
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A Conversation with Frank Work, Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner
Continuing a series of blog posts that I’m calling “A Conversation with…” (the first being A Conversation with Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada), I’m delighted to post the following...
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NDP dragging its heels on our privacy
It’s safe to say that the Alberta provincial government is regarded as being right wing. But Manitoba’s? Not at all. So why then is Alberta light years ahead of Manitoba at protecting workers’ privacy?...
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A Conversation with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s Information and Privacy...
Continuing a series of blog posts that I’m calling “A Conversation with…“, I’m delighted to post the following conversation with Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian. Dr....
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Man jailed for secretly filming naked wife: ABC News
In what can only be describe as a bizarre fact scenario, ABC News is reporting that “an appeals court in the US state of Minnesota has upheld a one-year prison sentence for a man who drilled a hole in...
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Camera ban missed privacy point
Last week’s widely reported ruling by Judge Tim Preston that cameras will not be permitted into the Brian Sinclair inquest hinged largely on a desire to protect the privacy rights of witnesses. But...
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Today’s “buzz” on Google Buzz offers lesson for new service roll-outs
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has teamed up with nine other country’s privacy watchdogs today to warn Google and other organizations to better respect people’s privacy rights. The...
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A Conversation with Gary Dickson, Q.C.
Continuing a series of blog posts that I’m calling “A Conversation with…“, I’m really pleased to post the following conversation with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Saskatchewan, Gary...
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