Peter Nowak of CBC News reports: Canada’s privacy commissioner, fresh off forcing Facebook to change how it handles users’ data, is ordering Bell Canada to change how it informs internet customers of its network-management practices. In a report dated Aug. 13 and made public on Friday, assistant privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham told the company it…
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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
Declan McCullagh reports that Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting…
Global Privacy Standards in a Global World, The Public Voice
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3rd European Privacy Open Space
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