Topic: Canada

LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook faces regulatory scrutiny in Ireland, site of its European headquarters, over its handling of personal information, the Financial Times reported on Friday.The newspaper said the Irish data protection commissioner is to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook's activities ...

A Q&A with Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart covering social media, smartphones, educating the public and much more.She has faced down Facebook and taken federal public servants to task for misusing their beloved BlackBerries. The spreading use of social media, smartphones and other ...

"We work hard at Google to earn your trust, and we're acutely aware that we failed badly here," Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice president of engineering and research, said in a blog post."So we've spent the past several months looking at how ...

Canada's investigation into the way that Google's Street View cars collected personal information sent by people over Wi-Fi networks has resulted in a number of recommendations for the search giant.. According to Computerworld, when officials from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner ...

Canada's privacy commissioner yesterday declared that Google violated the country's privacy laws, which followed news that Spain's Data Protection Agency plans to fine Google between ?60,000 and ?600,000 ($84,000 and $840,000) per offense due to the Wi-Fi data Google collected with its ...

Canada's privacy commisioner says Google accidentally mapped much more than addressesCanada's privacy commissioner says Google broke Canadian privacy laws when it accidentally collected personal information from unsecured wireless networks while putting together its Street View mapping service.An investigation by Privacy Commisioner Jennifer ...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's privacy watchdog accused Google Inc on Tuesday of violating the rights of thousands of Canadians by inappropriately collecting their personal information in building its Street View service.Google must tighten its privacy protection systems to prevent a repeat of ...

When immigrating to Canada, the government requests a great deal of personal information from individuals to determine applicants' eligibility to enter Canada. This information is collected and kept by various Canadian government departments, embassies, consulates and immigration processing centers around the world ...

Two SC Magazine events in November bring together many of the security industry's leading figures, as well as showcase top vendors.As cybercrimes launched against large and small organizations alike continue – all the while becoming more sophisticated and, now, sometimes focused on ...

Personal Information Protection ? The Devil is in the Details by Stephanie A. McManus LL. B. Three cases in the last two years emanating from the Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada remind us that when it comes to complying with ...