Privacy
PIAC Comments to Privacy Commissioner of Canada on Cloud Computing
Thursday, Apr 15, 2010PIAC today submitted comments to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner on the privacy implications of cloud computing. This is the second topic in a series of issues that pose a serious challenge to the privacy of consumers. The cloud computing consultation event is scheduled to take place on June 21, 2010 in Calgary. A link to the Privacy Commissioner’s 2010 Consumer Privacy Consultations ...
PIAC Comments to Privacy Commissioner of Canada on Behavioural Targeting
Thursday, Apr 08, 2010On March 15, 2010, PIAC submitted comments to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner on issues that pose a serious challenge to the privacy of consumers. First topic: consumer tracking, profiling and targeting of consumers by businesses. PIAC will be attending the two consultation events discussing consumer tracking, which take place on April 29, 2010 in Toronto and May 19, 2010 in ...
PIAC files Privacy Complaint Against Nexopia
Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010(OTTAWA)— The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), a consumer advocacy group based in Ottawa, yesterday asked the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate alleged violations of Canadian privacy law by Nexopia.com Inc., creator of the Edmonton-based popular youth and teen social networking site, Nexopia. PIAC’s 35 page complaint identified six Nexopia privacy practices that it says ...
Tracking Consumers Online – Behavioural Targeted Advertising and a “Do Not Track List” in Canada
Thursday, Dec 03, 2009(OTTAWA)— The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) today released a report entitled “A ‘Do Not Track List’ for Canada?”, that examines online behavioural targeted advertising and online behavioural tracking. This practice consists of tracking consumers’ online activities to target advertising to individual consumers based on their online history, preferences and attributes. In recent years, ...
Children’s Privacy Threatened by Play Websites and Social Networking
Tuesday, Nov 04, 2008Attention: News and Business Editors November 4, 2008 Children’s Privacy Threatened by Play Websites and Social Networking (OTTAWA)— The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) today released a report, “All in the Data Family: Children’s Privacy Online”, calling for amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) that would prohibit collection, use, ...