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Drone hovering outside midtown Toronto condo raises privacy concerns

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 […]

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Freedom

Is your data safe with Canada Post? What we know about privacy law violations

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 […]

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Freedom Pandemic Privacy

Court gives universities a free pass to infringe privacy

Courts are likely to defer to public institutions to act in whatever way they deem to be in the public good.

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Freedom

House of Commons votes narrowly to end Public Health surveillance

“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.”

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Freedom Vaccines

Vaccine passports and erosion of privacy

Privacy forms the foundation of our freedom. You cannot have freedom in society without a solid foundation of privacy.

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Freedom Pandemic Privacy

Good thing the cat and dog can’t talk … but the toaster can

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.