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ghosts in the machine: January 2008
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Saturday, January 26, 2008. January 28th is Data Privacy Day. International Association of Privacy Professionals) has declared January 28, 2008 "Data Privacy Day", in an effort to encourage privacy professionals to give presentations at schools, colleges and universities next week on the importance of privacy. To assist privacy professionals in their goal, the IAPP is providing some free materials. Including a slideshow and handouts on teens and social networking. Worthwhile reading for many parents too!
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ghosts in the machine: April 2009
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Monday, April 27, 2009. Lessons from the Identity Trail. The results of their research have been published in a book, On the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society. Which is available for free download. Kerr also provides an overview in this CBC podcast. Which aired on April 17, 2009. Consequently, governments and corporations are able to do things like:. Embrace technologies such as radio frequency identification tags that can be used to track people and merchandise to an...
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ghosts in the machine: Cops want covert cameras in public places
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Friday, May 11, 2007. Cops want covert cameras in public places. Police in Victoria, British Columbia want to install security cameras in public areas around the provincial capital in a bid to fight crime and reduce vandalism. I wrote an earlier post. About the plethora of surveillance cameras in public areas and motorways in the United Kingdom and the concern that this was creating a “surveillance society” there. Meanwhile, in a six-month pilot project. It's a very effective way to secure evidence to su...
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ghosts in the machine: PEW Internet Study: Online Generation Gap Narrowing
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Friday, January 30, 2009. PEW Internet Study: Online Generation Gap Narrowing. The PEW Internet and American Life project released a report this week on Generations Online in 2009. The study shows that while over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old, larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online, according to surveys taken from 2006-2008. Among the key findings:. Photo by: max thinks sees. Do you have any...
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ghosts in the machine: Smile... you're on Candid Camera
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Smile you're on Candid Camera. 8230;and pick up that rubbish, mate! CCTV is very quickly becoming an integral part of crime control policy, social control theory and 'Community consciousness'. It is promoted by police and politicians as primary solution for urban dysfunction. But do these cameras really work, or do they just move the problems along to areas where there is no surveillance? Posted by Sharon E. Herbert. At Wednesday, April 04, 2007. April 18, 2007 at 12:22 PM.
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ghosts in the machine: February 2008
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Monday, February 18, 2008. Canada's Privacy Commissioner on Social Networking. This video, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, wants users of social networks to pause and ask themselves the following questions before posting personal information online:. What judgments or conclusions might others form with my information? Are there some details about my life I would like to keep personal? Who might view or purchase this information about me? Links to this post. A web...
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ghosts in the machine: CCTV is not the best way to combat crime
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Saturday, November 8, 2008. CCTV is not the best way to combat crime. British Columbia’s provincial government is planning to spend one million dollars on a pilot CCTV project to help combat crime in Vancouver, Kelowna and Surrey. According to the province’s Solicitor General, John van Dongen:. Technologies such as CCTV can greatly assist the police and the prosecution in bringing offenders to justice. We believe CCTV can be an important tool in catching criminals and improving public safety. Jonathan Kl...
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ghosts in the machine: October 2008
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Saturday, October 25, 2008. PIPEDA: Guidelines for Covert Video Surveillance. A manager at a railway company uses the zoom lens on cameras, installed for the purpose of monitoring train movements, to watch two employees leaving company property during regular working hours without permission. Which of the above scenarios are in violation of PIPEDA. Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act). The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has prepared a draft guidance document that sets out good pr...
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ghosts in the machine: PIPEDA: Guidelines for Covert Video Surveillance
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Saturday, October 25, 2008. PIPEDA: Guidelines for Covert Video Surveillance. A manager at a railway company uses the zoom lens on cameras, installed for the purpose of monitoring train movements, to watch two employees leaving company property during regular working hours without permission. Which of the above scenarios are in violation of PIPEDA. Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act). The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has prepared a draft guidance document that sets out good pr...
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ghosts in the machine: Homeland Security's Chertoff: more surveillance, less privacy
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Saturday, October 6, 2007. Homeland Security's Chertoff: more surveillance, less privacy. Americans are increasingly more willing to trade privacy for security, according to a recent Washington Post poll. And comments by Michael Chertoff, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security at the International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner's conference. In Montreal earlier this week reflect this outlook. Michael Geist reported on the BBC news site. Chertoff explained that in the autumn the US intends to expan...
