Speaker: Elizabeth Denham, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Topic: The OPC’s Facebook Investigation: How Canadian privacy law made an international impact. Ottawa, Ontario Please click here to RSVP to this event.
The Emergence of an International Framework for Privacy Protection— Next Steps
Marc Rotenberg, EPIC Executive Director Hosted by University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs To register please contact: gspiaji@pitt.edu or 412-648-1336 .
Privacy commissioner to take Ont. government to task for jury background checks
Keith Leslie reports: Crown prosecutors and police in several Ontario communities conducted secret background checks on prospective jurors, Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian will report Monday following an investigation by her office into the illegal practice. The commissioner began the investigation after reports Crown attorneys in Barrie, Windsor and Thunder Bay convinced police to do background…
ICANN studies secretive domain owners
Mikael Ricknäs reports: Approximately 15 percent to 25 percent of domain names have been registered in a manner that limits the amount of personal information available to the public through WHOIS queries, according to the preliminary results of a report from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Domain owners who want to limit…