In the spring of 2010, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada held public consultations on online tracking, profiling and targeting, and cloud computing. The Office received 32 written submissions and held three public events in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. These events were attended by representatives of industry and government, academics, and advocates, as…
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Rapleaf says it has fixed privacy issue with Facebook
Jeremy Kirk reports: A company that compiles profiles of Internet users for targeted advertising said it is no longer passing user identifiers used by Facebook and MySpace to advertising networks due to privacy concerns. Rapleaf, a company based in San Francisco, acknowledged the issue, which was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal series of stories…
White House Unveils Internet Privacy Committee
Elizabeth Montalbano reports: The White House council on technology has formed a new subcommittee to develop principles that will attempt to balance the Internet’s economic opportunity with people’s right to privacy. The National Science and Technology Council’s new Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy also will aim to synchronize the practices of federal agencies with…
ICO issues statement on Google Street View in light of new admissions
An ICO spokesperson issued this statement today: “Earlier this year the ICO visited Google’s premises to make a preliminary assessment of the ‘pay-load’ data it inadvertently collected whilst developing Google Street View. Whilst the information we saw at the time did not include meaningful personal details that could be linked to an identifiable person, we…