Op-Ed: Beware of ‘Surveillance by Design’

I feel the need to raise a growing concern regarding the lack of understanding of a key privacy issue – the ease of data linkages in an ever-increasing online world.
In this day and age of 24/7 online expanded connectivity and immediate access to digitized information, new analytic tools and algorithms now make it possible, […]

Protected by Canadian Cloud Security

Canada has a unique opportunity to present itself to the world as a ‘safe harbour’ for Cloud data hosting, safe from risks such as the USA’s Patriot Act – To establish a brand where data hosted here has a kitemark that states ‘Protected By Ca…

Compliance with Privacy Regulations Just got a Lot Easier

Our new agreement with Akamai marks a huge step forward for both consumer privacy online and compliance with regulations created to protect those consumers around the world. While much of the activity to date around compliance—with the US Self-Regula…

Commissioner Cavoukian’s letter to the New York Times entitled “Keeping Privacy Alive”

Applause, applause! Finally, an article on privacy not being dead! As the information and privacy commissioner of Ontario, I have seen an endless stream of seemingly automated articles announcing the death of privacy, in one form or another.