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Submission from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) on cloud computing for our 2010 consultations. We’ll continue to blog and tweet written submissions as they are posted.
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Submission from the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) on cloud computing for our 2010 consultations. We'll continue to blog and tweet written submissions as they are posted.
Read moreMeet Louise.
Louise is a central character in our upcoming Consumer Privacy Consultations - not because of her great hair, but because she's engaged online the way many Canadians are...she buys clothing and books online, she updates her Facebook profile regularly, she's got an iPhone.
Read moreIncorporating privacy into design – A friendly message to the open data community
Here in Ottawa, a group of like-minded citizens held an open data hackfest last weekend, meant to show off cool apps designed by local developers using public municipal data.
Read moreEt tu, Google?
Late yesterday, Canada’s privacy commissioner, along with data protection authorities from France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt to express their concerns about privacy issues related to Google Buzz.
Read moreAspirations of privacy
Last week, researchers from Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania released a study on young peoples’ attitudes and knowledge when it comes to their privacy. Their study found many similarities between young and older Americans when it came to sensitivity about online privacy, bucking the conventional wisdom that “kids don’t care” about privacy.
Read moreVirtual graffiti
The intersection of geolocational apps and social media has produced… virtual graffiti.
Read moreTry out our new privacy quiz for businesses
Understanding how best to manage and protect personal information can be a difficult task for small businesses, so we hope our new mini-quiz will help to identify some issues that organizations need to be aware of.
Read moreLocational services and cool data visualizations
Earlier this month, a rich subset of social media users and technology evangelists descended upon Austin, Texas for the annual SxSW interactive conference. Some see SxSW (South by SouthWest) as an early indicator of developing technology trends. Twitter, the popular microblogging service, broke out as a popular consumer application at the conference two years ago.
Read moreBlast from the Past – How many unused profiles do you have online?
This post, by co-op student Erin Siksay, is cross-posted from our youth blog.
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