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…
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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…
Views on Privacy
Some other articles this week you may wish to read: Declan McCullagh discusses Why no one cares about privacy anymore, but Chris Matyszczyk disagrees in Why people really do care about privacy. SXSWi keynote speaker Danah Boyd agrees that privacy is not dead, as reported by both Daniel Terdiman and Jason Kincaid.