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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...
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Swiss officials said Friday that they had sued Google to try to require it to tighten privacy safeguards on its Street View online service. It is the latest of a series of European objections to the company's handling of personal information.
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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...
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Britain's privacy watchdog said that Google Street View should not be removed or shut down, dismissing concerns that the service was too invasive. Google's Street View program, which carries panoramic, high-quality photographers of street scenes across...
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