Topic: Jennifer Stoddart

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 ...

Facebook users may be targets of blackmail after changes that erode personal security protections on the world's most popular social network website, Canada's privacy czar warned Saturday.In assessing Facebook's announcement that it was embracing third-party integration, privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart expressed concern ...

Facebook users may be targets of blackmail after changes that erode personal security protections on the world's most popular social network website, Canada's privacy czar warned Saturday.In assessing Facebook's announcement that it was embracing third-party integration, privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart expressed concern ...

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 ...

Canada's privacy czar announced on Thursday that Facebook has agreed to changes to better secure the privacy of users of the popular social networking site.The negotiated settlement follows an investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner into Facebook's handling of personal information, such as ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Facebook agreed on Thursday to give its worldwide users better protection over their personal information as the result of negotiations with Canada's privacy commissioner.The changes will give users of the social networking website more transparency and control over the ...

Continuing the social networking/privacy vein, BBC News is reporting that Facebook has violated Canadian privacy laws by holding on to users' personal data for too long. Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says Facebook's practice of keeping user data even after accounts are deactivated ...

A massive security breach at TJX Companies that led to the loss of personal information on millions of customers is a direct result of inadequate security safeguards and poor security planning, an investigation by Canadian privacy commissioners has found.. In a report ...