Gene Policinski vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center, has this op-ed on StatesmanJournal.com: Beliefs about the right to privacy are colliding ever more frequently with claims of free expression in a Web-wired world. From a courtroom battle about an Internet video in Italy to a fight over gun-permit records in Indiana,…
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Privacy Remains a Social Norm
Anne Cavoukian, Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, had an op-ed in yesterday’s Globe and Mail: Recently, a considerable amount of controversy ensued when Mark Zuckerberg, head of the world’s most popular online social network, Facebook, was misquoted as saying, “privacy is no longer a social norm.” What he actually said was: “People have really…
Privacy’s Trajectory
Tanya Forsheit writes: As many of our readers know, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) will celebrate 10 years this Tuesday, March 16. In connection with that anniversary, the IAPP is releasing a whitepaper, “A Call For Agility: The Next-Generation Privacy Professional,” tomorrow, March 15. Monday morning you can find the whitepaper here. I am…
Privacy rules halted investigation of rogue scientists
Margaret Munro reports: The federal government has been pushing Canada’s largest research council to release the names of scientists who fudge research results, plagiarize reports or misspend grant money, according to federal documents obtained by Canwest News Service. But the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has yet to change its rules, despite pointed recommendations…