From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Google Inc. contravened Canadian privacy law when it inappropriately collected personal information from unsecured wireless networks in neighbourhoods across the country, an investigation has found. The Privacy Commissioner’s investigation also concluded that the incident was the result of an engineer’s careless error as well as a…
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Privacy watchdog mulls fresh Facebook probe
And of course, we knew it was only a matter of time before the Canadian Privacy Commissioner might open a new investigation of Facebook. Matt Hartley reports: Canada’s Privacy Commissioner is considering launching a fresh investigation into the privacy policies of Facebook Inc. after it was revealed that some of the most popular applications, or…
Spanish agency sues Google over Street View
It would be much appreciated if Google and Facebook took turns getting sued. Like maybe alternate weeks, if not months? And try to batch them by type of violation, if possible? Is that really too much to ask? AFP reports: Spain’s data protection authority said Monday it has filed a suit against Google for allegedly…
HK’s Octopus violated data protection principles
Andy Lau updates us on the Octopus breach: Octopus Rewards Limited violated the principles of personal data protection by collecting and using customers’ personal data under the Octopus Rewards Program, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Allan Chiang said on Monday. In his investigation report on the issue, Chiang said the company collected excessive and unnecessary…