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Facebook aims to appease Cdn. privacy watchdog
Toronto :: Canada | 11 days ago
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In this revision, we're fulfilling our commitment to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to update our privacy policy to better describe a number of practices," wrote Elliot Schrage, Facebook's head of communications, on the site's official blog. "Specifically,...
Tags: Canada, Facebook, privacy commissioner, privacy policy, Toronto, Personally identifiable information, Social network service, Jennifer Stoddart, Criticism of Facebook, Online social networking, Privacy, Technology Internet
Privacy watchdog slams financial database, no-fly list
Ottawa :: Canada | 14 days ago
Credibility Canadians sometimes end up in a federal database that tracks cash linked to terrorist financing and money laundering, based merely on their ethnic origin or other unwarranted grounds, Canada's privacy watchdog said Tuesday. In one case, a financial institution...
Tags: Jennifer Stoddart, Transport Canada, privacy commissioner, privacy watchdog, fly list, commissioner jennifer, money laundering, Parliament, Canada, Ottawa, Terrorist financing, Tax evasion, Financial regulation, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, Public Safety Canada, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Financial intelligence, Anti-money laundering, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Business Finance, Identity management, Social issues, Information privacy, Data privacy, Privacy law, Privacy, Personally identifiable information, No Fly List, Politics, Numismatics, Auditing, Banking, Payment systems, Cheque
Consumer borrowing in Canada 'defying gravity'
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Heating costs should fall this winter for customers who heat their homes with natural gas, thanks to rising supply and falling demand. Nissan's new electric car will be launched in Canada in 2011, beginning with British Columbia, the company announced...
Tags: Transport Canada, salvat army, canadians city, Google Street View, food banks, Canadians, Salvation Army, canadians need, privacy commissioner, annual reporting
Council to vote on strike savings solution
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Windsor city council will decide Monday night how it will return more than $5.7 million saved during the municipal workers strike to city homeowners. Crown prosecutors and police in several Ontario communities conducted secret background checks on prospective...
Tags: Ontario Crown, privacy commissioner, background checks, Ontario Ministry, crown attorney, secret background, prospective jurors, conducting secret, commissioner ann, ontario communities
Facebook agrees to make Canada privacy changes
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility TORONTO: Facebook, the Popular social networking website, agreed on Thursday to make changes to better protect the personal information of its users as a result of negotiations with Canada's privacy commissioner. The changes will give users more transparency...
Tags: Facebook, Canada, privacy commissioner, facebook agreed, social networking, Canadian, personal information, networking site, privacy policy, privacy change
Privacy commission pleased with Facebook changes
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility The federal privacy commissioner says Facebook has addressed her concerns about privacy on the popular social networking site...The company also shared users' information with almost one million third-party developers of Facebook applications. The company...
Tags: Canada, social networking, privacy commissioner, personal information, networking site, privacy policy, facebook agreed, million users, party applications
Facebook, privacy watchdog work to resolve concerns
Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility The federal privacy watchdog says it's having positive talks with popular social networking site Facebook over concerns about use of personal details. "I think that discussions are going well and we remain hopeful," said privacy commission spokeswoman...
Tags: Jennifer Stoddart, Canada, privacy commissioner, privacy watchdog, social networking, privacy law, federal privacy
P2Pnet: Time runs out for Facebook in privacy probe
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
Credibility Is social advertising business Fa$ebook defying Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s federal privacy commissioner? Exactly 30 days ago today her investigation into the company’s privacy policies and practices was released and, “we found serious privacy gaps in...
Tags: Canada, privacy commissioner
Canadian privacy police face off with Facebook
Ottawa :: Canada | 4 months ago
Credibility Canada's privacy commissioner accused Facebook last week of breaching Canadian law by keeping users' personal information indefinitely after members close their accounts. Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart released a report that also accuses Facebook...
'Facebook has privacy gaps'
Ottawa :: Canada | 4 months ago
Credibility OTTAWA: The popular social networking site Facebook is not doing enough to protect the personal information it gets from subscribers, and it gives users confusing and incomplete information about privacy matters, Canada's privacy commissioner said on...
Tags: Canada, privacy commissioner, privacy law, Facebook, Jennifer Stoddart, privacy gaps, social networking, facebook violated, popular social
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