I can’t quite delete my account, but I look at it less and less

Assorted content to end your week.- No, there was never any doubt that any statement which could possibly be interpreted as insufficiently jingoistic in favour of the oil industry was going to give rise to a backlash from the Cons’ oilpatch base. But i…

We store all kinds of personal, private data on our electronic devices, and a McAfee researcher has shown that some of them have a little trouble letting go of it.

The ubiquitous social network somehow always comes out on top

The Globe’s John Ibbitson has a column
that confirms much of the private speculation about lawful access,
namely that the bill is going nowhere so long as Vic Toews remains
public safety minister. This is consistent with the prevailing view
that …

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Martin Papillon offers up some lessons for the NDP in Francois Hollande’s French presidential victory:Being ideological does not have to mean being radical. It means anchoring your platform in a clear…

Not sure how to manage what your kids are playing in the home? You’re not alone, so here I suggest a few tips to keeping violent video games under control.

A trio of Yale students has developed a free service to help users navigate the ins and outs of privacy agreements

The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that portions of the provincial
privacy statute are unconstitutional. The decision, United Food and Commercial Workers,
Local 401 v Alberta (Attorney General), is online. Discussion here,
here,
and here.

Industry Minister Christian Paradis spoke at the Canada 3.0 conference
in Stratford yesterday, providing an update
on the government’s digital economy plans. Paradis trumpeted some of
the measures in the budget as well as the trio of related laws…

The European Data Protection Supervisor has issued a new
opinion
on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, expressing serious concerns
about the impact of the agreement on privacy and data protection (a prior opinion
was released in 2010). The
…

The National Post reports
that plans to introduce new Internet surveillance legislation is
threatening the current British ruling coalition. The bill has yet to
be introduced, but has attracted criticism from MPs from all parties.

It’s a question many are asking – can we still trust Google? (In fairness, it’s a question you could ask of any social company). I’ve written about my falling out of “like” with Google on here a few times recently, and they still continue to piss me off. For example, I completely deleted my Google+… [Continue Reading]

Can We Still Trust Google? originally appeared on Danny Brown – under a Creative Commons license.

The Supreme Court of Canada issued an important decision last week on
the wiretap provisions in the Criminal Code that should have an impact
on the lawful access/online surveillance bill currently before
Parliament. In R. v. Tse,
a unanimous cour…

In the U.S. police can even buy a monthly subscription to customers’ tracking data

Last week, I posted
about a recent Justice Committee report that includes recommendations
that would expand Bill C-30, the lawful access/online surveillance
bill, in several important ways.  Toward the end of the post is a
comment from Bell …

In this week’s radio show, we chat about the phishing scams and how they try to ‘lure’ you out of cash, how Hotmail handles another annoying email problem referred to as ‘graymail’ and what the folks at ThinkGeek.com have cooked up for April Fool’s Day…

The government has placed Bill C-30, the lawful access/online
surveillance bill on hold, but there is no reason to believe it is
going away. In fact, a recent report Standing Committee on Justice and
Human Rights
suggests that the changes coming …

Girls Around Me lets users track neighborhood girls and read their Facebook profiles

Montreal — Community members showed up at the offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Montreal yesterday morning, intent on engaging in a little role reversal. The group came equipped to photograph and interrogate people enteri…