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Facebook is the opposite of anonymous browsing or secure surfing.
Several of our readers have sent email questioning why the Secure Surfing Organization has not published on the moves Facebook is making in its collection, distribution, use and administration of Facebook member personal information.
Frankly there has been so much [...]
If you want an outstanding narrative on the challenges facing personal privacy, click on this link, Digital Dossier, a video that might make you think.
Consider that, for the sake of time and narration, the author is using a trivial number of examples to convey the ideas, but that the sources of data generated [...]
Just one day after the misleading story run by CTV, CBC News Network covered the chatroulette dot com site in its morning news cycle.
The expert brought forward by CBC did not leave the impression that parents are helpless, but advised them to use “content filtering or monitoring software.”
This is the appropriate advice. Where it falls [...]
The Canadian television broadcaster CTV, recently ran a story about how helpless parents are in dealing with sites such as chatroulette dot com. In its national news broadcast, imitating many global media, CTV put on an expert who suggested that parents have little or no control, as even products such as NetNanny may not exclude [...]
by Glenn Caleval
If you are a friend or follow me on Facebook or LinkedIn, you will have seen the cautions from the Secure Surfing Organization about making use of particular “free” services. You may have personally sent me various invitations, virtual gifts or other service addons to share the social networking experience. And you will [...]
One sentence inn the MySpace Privacy Policy reveals there is a Fox in the chicken coup, specifically Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and other other media holdings under the umbrella of NewsCorp or News America Group.
That sentence is:
“MySpace also may share your PII with Affiliated Companies if it has a business reason to do so.”
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by Glenn Caleval
Facebook has taken a major swing at privacy concerns and hit a home run for user rights according to the Secure Surfing Organization.
Instead of offering the litany of excuses and confusion that is the standard fare of the old boys of the internet, Facebook has [...]
PIPEDA Case Summary #2009-008
Report of Findings into the Complaint Filed by the
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
against Facebook Inc.
Under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
by Elizabeth Denham, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Complaint
3. Introduction
4. Section 1 – Collection of Date and Birth
5. Section 2 – Default Privacy [...]Others in this Group An Introduction – Legal Library – July 20, 2009Access to Information Act – Canada – July 20, 2009CANSPAM Act of 2003 – July 26, 2009Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – August 2, 2009Copyright Act of Canada – July 20, 2009Data Protection Act – UK – August 3, 2009Defamation – Libel – Criminal Code of Canada – July 20, 2009False …Read the rest – Findings Against Facebook – Privacy Law Breaches
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