Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2014
October 1st marked the start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s an opportunity to share tips and tools to help people stay more safe and secure online.
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From APP-laudable to dis-APP-ointing, global mobile app privacy sweep yields mixed results
Back in May, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) embarked upon its second annual Privacy Sweep, this time with a focus on mobile apps.
Read moreIt’s back to school!
Looking for ways to kick the school year off right?
Read moreAn update on our Internet privacy sweep
Last month, we released the initial results of our Internet privacy sweep. You can read the original blog post to see what we observed. (We should note here that the screenshots and references in that blog post reflect what we saw online during the sweep and were still in place when we originally blogged about the sweep results on August 13.)
Read moreInitial results from our Internet Privacy Sweep: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
You might recall, a few weeks back our Office led and participated in the first annual Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) Internet Privacy Sweep.
Read moreFixing leaky faucets: Raising the bar of privacy protection
“Web leakage” research and follow-up work by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has resulted in improvements to the privacy practices of some popular Canadian websites.
Read moreA First-Person-Sweeper Perspective
Yesterday, our Office participated in the first ever international internet privacy sweep. An initiative of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN), the sweep is a coordinated effort among a number of data protection agencies to address a particular privacy issue. This year’s sweep assessed transparency online.
Read moreGrappling with the impact technology is having on privacy
This week is Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) – a global effort, coordinated by members of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA), to raise awareness about the value of privacy and the importance of protecting it.
Read moreNew presentation helps kids in grades 4 to 6 understand their online footprint
Canadian kids are communicating online more than ever before, and are using tools like Skype sometimes even before they learn to walk. Many of us are astonished at how easily they adapt to new devices that connect to the Internet and at how these devices can quickly become part of their lives, as they use them to chat, surf, post, play and learn.
Read moreCitizens watching citizens
Waiting for his bus, a man watches as two people smash a glass window in an attempt to break into a building. He takes his phone out of his jacket pocket, points it towards the couple across the street, and snaps a photo. He posts it to Twitter. “Incredible,” he writes. “At the corner of Wellington and Fifth.”
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