Topic: Canada

Cyber ready?

Canadian businesses may be ill-prepared for electronic threats, says Danny Bradbury.Canadian businesses may be ill-prepared for electronic threats, says Danny Bradbury.Ian Wilms isn't your normal sales director. The Canadian executive, who works in a small, family hardware business, is more educated about ...

Ten nations call on Google to better defend privacy

Officials from 10 nations have banded together to demand that Internet giant Google make greater efforts to defend people's privacy."While we hear corporations such as Google pay lip service to privacy, we don't always see this reflected in the launch of new ...

Ten countries urge privacy changes at Google

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Data protection and privacy chiefs from 10 countries issued a joint letter pushing search engine giant Google to improve respect for data privacy, Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner said on Tuesday.The heads of data protection authorities in Canada, ...
Officials from 10 countries tell Google of their concerns over Buzz and other privacy issuesOfficials from Germany, Canada, France and seven other countries are raising privacy concerns about Google's mapping service and the company's fumbled foray into social networking.Although the concerns they ...
Ten privacy commissioners from countries including Germany, Canada, and the U.K. have sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying the company " failed to take adequate account of privacy considerations" when launching Google Buzz. Google Dashboard, the Ads Preferences Manager ...

When It Comes to Data, Location Matters

If a company has a Web site that collects information on customers, for example it may need to develop sites with different databases for U.S. and Canadian customers. Then it dropped off the radar," Jim Latimer, vice president of client services for ...
There are a several ways to find out who owns a company in Canada.. Visit the Canadian Business Directory, located in the Resources section below, and click on "Search. Call, fax, email, or write to the Canadian company about your question. When ...

Canada investigates Facebook again over privacy

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's privacy czar, who got Facebook to agree last year to better protect users' personal information, will launch a new investigation over complaints that the changes sometimes make things worse.The office of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said on Wednesday ...
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to individuals in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. Check the deadline to make sure that you allow adequate time to prepare your application.. If you have upcoming ...
Google announced on Wednesday that it has launched its Street View service to 11 cities in Canada, including Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, among others.. Whether Google would ever be able to bring Street View to Canada was very much up in ...