From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: Amendments to the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) were proclaimed in force on May 1, 2010, and added a new requirement for organizations to notify the Information and Privacy Commissioner of incidents “involving the loss of or unauthorized access to or disclosure of personal information where…
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Can We Rely on Privacy Policies?
Dan Solove introduces an invited article on Concurring Opinions: With the recent case of Saffold v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co., involving a newspaper website that outed an anonymous commenter who was a judge, we invited Woodrow Hartzog to write a post about these issues. Woodrow is the author of a terrific article about the enforceability…
Privacy Awareness Week
Privacy Awareness Week is an annual promotion by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) forum that commenced in 2007. Here are some items related to it this year: From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Australia: A new free online tool to help people protect themselves against identity theft has been launched as part…
A PogoWasRight.org Response to the FTC
Normally, I’m very appreciative of all the FTC has done to protect consumer privacy and our data. But boy, did they blow it this time. On April 30, the FTC issued the following release: Mom has gone out of her way for you over the years. On Mother’s Day, let her know you’re doing the…