After the initial `hiccups’, there’s more trouble headed towards census operations in Uttar Pradesh. First, the districts had to grapple with shortage of hands to conduct the house-listing survey, and now, officials are having to deal with resistance from citizens. In Lucknow, along with other districts of the state, census workers are having a tough…
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Google is “close” to handing over German wi-fi data
Search giant Google has said it is “close” to resolving issues that have prevented it from passing a hard disk of data to German authorities. The disk contains wi-fi data Google Street View cars gathered by mistake. Pressure to make the data available has been increased by the German regional Information Commissioner that started the…
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner awards $500,000 to 13 projects to advance frontiers of privacy research
Today, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart announced the recipients of her Office’s 2010-11 Contributions Program, which funds privacy research and public education initiatives. Recipients of this year’s Contributions Program are advancing research in a number of areas of interest to Canadians and others around the world: * Targeted online advertising * Data-sharing between governments and commercial…
Ca: BC Hydro fights RCMP on power records
Jane Seyd reports that BC Hydro pushed back when RCMP obtained an order for them to turn over all customer records based on energy usage: North Vancouver RCMP have backed off on a request that would have forced BC Hydro to turn over the records of more than a thousand North Vancouver homeowners using large…