Privacy
(Un)Lawful Access Legislation – Ottawa Public Forum
Wednesday, Feb 01, 2012(Un)Lawful Access Legislation – Ottawa Forum ABOUT ONLINE SPYING : The government is trying to push through a set of electronic surveillance laws that will invade your privacy and cost you money. The plan is to force every phone and Internet provider to allow “authorities” to collect the private information of any Canadian, at any time, without a warrant. Learn more and sign ...
Change data breach bill to notify more consumers, New PIAC report
Monday, Jan 09, 2012The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) today released a report entitled “Data Breaches: Worth Noticing?”. The report examines data breach notification in Canada in the private sector in general and in particular whether the proposed federal data breach notification law (Bill C-12) is adequate to protect Canadian consumers. “Data breaches affect consumer confidence in the new ...
Consumers Anonymous? The Privacy Risks of De-Identified and Aggregated Consumer Data
Thursday, Oct 06, 2011Private sector companies may aggregate personal information about their customers for internal purposes and analysis and some companies may sell their aggregated data for profit. Other companies’ business models are founded on combining various sets of aggregated data with sets of publicly available information to produce valuable data sets that help companies make predictions about customers ...
PIAC Report: Can We CAN SPAM in Canada?
Monday, Dec 20, 2010(OTTAWA)— The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) in a report released today entitled, “Can We Can Spam in Canada?” lauded Canada’s recently passed anti-spam law, Bill C-28, as providing real hope for consumers in the fight against unwanted email. PIAC’s report includes a survey of Canadians’ attitudes to spam. While those attitudes are changing to be more accepting of ...
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 ...