Kathleen Lau reports: Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has taken issue with a security vendor’s criticism of her recent report following the loss of a USB key containing patient health data at Durham Health region. Earlier this week, Websense Inc.’s Canadian country manager Fiaaz Walji said Ann Cavoukian’s order that the Durham Health Region should “strongly encrypt” its data…
Category: Non-U.S.
Cyprus: Phone tapping plan bogged down in legalese
Elias Hazou reports: Debates on amending Article 17 of the Constitution, which would allow police to monitor electronic communications, has become bogged down in tricky legal terrain. The House Legal Affairs Committee has more or less agreed on the broad strokes of a draft bill. Under the proposed legislation, phone and Internet surveillance would be…
We’ve got a file on you – Dutch privacy under threat
Sebastiaan Gottlieb reports: Few people realise how much of their private information is stored electronically. New research in the Netherlands shows that details on the average Dutch citizen are held in as many as 250 databases. Some people’s details are kept in thousands of places. On Friday, the Dutch ‘Big Brother’ Awards will be presented…
Clinton calls parliament chief over bank data deal
Valentina Pop reports: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has called EU parliament chief Jerzy Buzek to voice concern over a vote due next Tuesday in which MEPs could scrap a deal allowing American investigators to track down terrorist funding via European bank transactions. Ms Clinton’s late-night phonecall to Mr Buzek comes on top of…