Trading information for ads, discounts and coupons
How comfortable, exactly, are online users with their information and online browsing habits being used to track their behaviour and serve ads to them?
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It’s all fun and games until someone brings up FiFi
As we mentioned earlier, Twitter is where everyone seems to be these days.
Read moreWhen do you draw the blue line?
We each have personal limits when sharing information online. Sometimes these limits can seem arbitrary or illogical, and sometimes they’re just funny.
Read moreDo your young people “think before they upload”?
Did you know it’s Privacy Awareness Week in the Asia Pacific Region? If you’ve got young people in your life, who you’re trying to impart the privacy-awareness message to, have them check out the three-minute video, featured on our YouTube channel, that the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) launched to mark the week.
Read moreLoose fingers could sink quarterly reports
Twitter. That’s right; I’m going to talk about Twitter, making the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada the official end point for the “Have you heard about Twitter?” meme. (For a quick summary of this meme, listen to this audio from a podcast called Jordan Jesse Go!)
Read moreFurther evidence on how the online and the private truly MESH
Once again, folks from the Office attended “Canada’s web conference”, MESH 2009, in Toronto – a place where flacks, marketers, hackers, people with money to spend, people looking for money, and activists gather and talk about how the web is “affecting media, marketing, business and society as a whole”.
Read moreCaptured on Camera
Today the OPC issued Captured on Camera, a fact sheet intended to help Canadians understand the privacy issues surrounding street-level imaging applications like Google StreetView and a similar product offered by Canpages.(html), (pdf)
Read moreDeep packet inspection and the thoughts of some experts
How does society reconcile the technological benefits and privacy impacts of new technology? Deep packet inspection is just one seemingly neutral technological application that can have a significant impact on privacy rights and other basic civil liberties, especially as market forces, the enthusiasm of technologists and the influence of national security
interests grow stronger.
Second Life: Privacy in Virtual Worlds
A year ago, we asked a law student at the University of Ottawa to examine the virtual world Second Life, and report on what implications this type of environment may have for personal privacy and the protection of personal information.
Read moreTrust me…it’s bleeding.
So says a new report from Dartmouth College telling us that in the US “data hemorrhages” are coming from all over the health sector including hospitals, physicians, laboratories, as well as outsourced service providers.
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