Canadian Patriot Act back as bill C-12
If you’ve followed this blog for some time, I first wrote about the introduction of the bill in May 2010, and then a follow up redux in August 2010 (a summar...
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What info does Facebook have on me?
After the F8 conference, there is even more concern than before about what personal information Facebook has on an individual. I was sent Facebook’s personal...
LinkedIn to approve the closing of your account?
After writing an article yesterday on how LinkedIn opts your name and photo into social advertising by default, it was brought to my attention today that if ...
The cloud is still a bad idea… keep your user’s personal information off US soil at all costs.
There’s an article in the register today highlighting that American organizations are all bound by the US Patriot act, which essentially allows the US govern...
Canadian Patriot Act redux
The article posted in May on the Canadian Patriot Act being introduced to the House of Commons didn’t seem to go much further than “preaching to the choir”. ...
Was I notified either verbally or in writing, of the reason each piece of my information is being collected?
Recently, I was in a local brewery buying a keg, and they asked for a copy of my driver’s licence to write down the number on the deposit form. And then a fe...
Canadian Patriot Act introduced
Today a couple of changes to Canada’s privacy landscape were introduced under the infamous banner of “safety and security”. This will create significant chan...