Antonin I. Pribetic writes: Today’s Court of Appeal for Ontario judgment in Citi Cards Canada Inc. v. Pleasance, 2011 ONCA 3 (Ont. C.A.) is an important victory for judgment debtors and upholds debtor privacy rights under Ontario’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, c. 5, (“PIPEDA”). The appeal dealt with the issue of whether a judgment…
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Privacy in France: 2010 review, 2011 perspectives
Lionel de Souza writes: The beginning of the New Year gives us an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of privacy in France over the past twelve months and also to consider the new challenges and opportunities that will develop in 2011. 2010 was a year of evolution for the French data protection authority, the Commission…
Man claims to be Scotland’s first FourSquare cyberstalking victim
An unidentified 26 year old freelance designer has called in the police after falling victim to the obsessive attentions of a female stalker. The designer’s travails began when he met the woman at an exhibition nine months ago, a chance encounter which quickly turned nasty. What started out as cyberstalking on social media sites has…
S. Korean police say Google collected private data illegally
Google’s problems over Street View collecting personal data from unsecured wi-fi connections are apparently not over. John Ribeiro reports: South Korea has concluded that Google illegally collected personal data while collecting information for its Street View map service, an official at the country’s National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday. The official, who declined to be…