Grey Matter: Canada’s Legal System Dysfunctional? | Bruce Pardy Part One: Law professor and executive director of Rights Probe, Bruce Pardy, reveals why a Canadian court wants access to your health records. What does this mean for your privacy? Are we still protected by the law or is the opposite happening? Bruce and host of […]
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By Caryn Lieberman | Global News After Lisa Graston spotted a drone hovering outside the window of her midtown Toronto high-rise condominium for the third time, she alerted neighbours. “It’s really unnerving and it really does sort of shatter any sense of privacy,” she said. Graston managed to snap a photo of the white drone with four propellers from […]
By Naomi Barghiel | Global News Canada Post broke privacy laws by using personal information from the outside of delivered envelopes for a marketing program, the federal privacy watchdog has found. The office of Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a report this week that the data collected by Canada Post for this program includes information about where individuals live and what kind of online shopping they do. The […]
Courts are likely to defer to public institutions to act in whatever way they deem to be in the public good.
“We are simply not at the point of understanding how this data was collected, whether it was properly de-identified, what the risks of re-identification are and why the Privacy Commissioner was not involved in the process.”
Privacy forms the foundation of our freedom. You cannot have freedom in society without a solid foundation of privacy.
The science fiction moment is upon us. A dynamite discussion between Postmedia columnist Anthony Furey and Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s former information and privacy commissioner, unpacks unprecedented concerns around privacy and security in a Vaccine Passport world, the indiscretions of voice recognition technologies and the Internet of Things rollout.