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Posts Tagged ‘privacy by design’

Need to know: privacy commissioner’s report on pressing online privacy issues

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

In 2010, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada conducted consultations on current privacy issues, including online tracking, profiling, targeting and cloud computing. The office released its report on the consultations earlier this year, and it’s available online.

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Tags: cloud computing, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, oipc, online targeting, online tracking, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PIPEDA, privacy by design, Privacy Commissioner, profiling, social media, social networking
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Facebook faces privacy questions… again

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Over the past couple of years, Facebook has had run-ins with the Canadian Privacy Commissioner. And Canada’s not alone; privacy watchdogs in the United States and around the world have been critical of Facebook’s willingness to sacrifice users’ personal data in the name of social media…

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Tags: facebook, privacy, privacy and risk management, privacy by design, Privacy Commissioner, privacy rights, social media, social networking, twitter
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Privacy risk management – by design

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

I’ve discussed the Privacy by Design principle before, in the Inside Internal Control newsletter. In case you don’t know, PbD is an approach developed by Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, which proactively embeds privacy protection by default in the design of an organization’s practices and products.

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Tags: confidentiality, employee personal information, PbD, PbD principles, personal information, privacy, privacy and risk management, privacy by design, Privacy Commissioner, privacy legislation
Posted in Human Resources, Internal Controls, IT, Privacy and Security, Privacy and Security | Make a Comment »

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