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Children’s Privacy Sweep yields positive changes

So whatever happened with that Children’s Privacy Sweep, you ask?

Required reading for email marketers: a case study in how not to collect and use e-mail addresses

Our Office recently concluded an investigation that has resulted in two important firsts along with some key lessons learned for businesses conducting e-mail marketing.

Mending the consent model: A call for solutions

We all encounter scores of user agreements when we go online. Do you read the full terms and conditions governing your use of a site, or do you just hit the "I accept" button and surf on?

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"You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I've ever heard of," sneers Commodore Norrington, the local military boss, in a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Who did it better? A look at children’s apps/websites and the privacy protective controls on offer

Children are more connected than ever and often miles ahead of their parents when it comes to navigating the Internet and mobile applications (apps).

Child sweepers share observations on web/mobile app privacy

It’s back to school!

Looking for ways to kick the school year off right?

Mind the gap: Poll finds many Canadian businesses believe privacy is important but not taking basic steps to protect customer information

Ten years after Canada’s private sector privacy law came into full effect, our latest survey has found that many Canadian businesses are still not taking the basic steps necessary to protect the personal information of their customers and clients – despite believing that protecting privacy is “extremely important”.

An 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.)