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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:36:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/25/justice-department-also-under-investigation-in-massive-data-breach/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/25/justice-department-also-under-investigation-in-massive-data-breach/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:34:56 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=354029 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/25/justice-department-also-under-investigation-in-massive-data-breach/feed/ 0 OTTAWA – A investigation into the federal government’s loss of personal information on over... http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/12/c-30-may-be-dead-but-you-have-every-reason-to-worry-about-your-privacy/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/12/c-30-may-be-dead-but-you-have-every-reason-to-worry-about-your-privacy/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:15:10 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=349164 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/12/c-30-may-be-dead-but-you-have-every-reason-to-worry-about-your-privacy/feed/ 0 Ottawa's data leak policy remains: don't ask, don't tell, as Jesse Brown explains http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/05/privacy-be-afraid-be-very-afraid-but-dont-be-afraid-of-twitter/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/05/privacy-be-afraid-be-very-afraid-but-dont-be-afraid-of-twitter/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:07:27 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=346701 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/05/privacy-be-afraid-be-very-afraid-but-dont-be-afraid-of-twitter/feed/ 0 Jesse Brown defines the real threats to your privacy http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/18/federal-government-faces-third-class-action-lawsuit-over-privacy-breach/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/18/federal-government-faces-third-class-action-lawsuit-over-privacy-breach/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:31:35 +0000 The Canadian Press http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=339208 http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/18/federal-government-faces-third-class-action-lawsuit-over-privacy-breach/feed/ 0 OTTAWA – Another day, another lawsuit over a massive privacy breach. The federal government... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/26/in-response-to-the-new-facebook-guidelines/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/26/in-response-to-the-new-facebook-guidelines/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:28:01 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=319591 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/26/in-response-to-the-new-facebook-guidelines/feed/ 0 Jesse Brown: I hereby declare myself Mayor of Toronto http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/08/expect-privacy-at-work-youre-not-unreasonable-says-supreme-court/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/08/expect-privacy-at-work-youre-not-unreasonable-says-supreme-court/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:16:01 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=312915 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/08/expect-privacy-at-work-youre-not-unreasonable-says-supreme-court/feed/ 0 Their workplace, their gear, their company, their rules. So what about your rights? Jesse Brown explains http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/19/supreme-court-grants-new-trial-for-teacher-over-nude-student-pictures-on-school-owned-computer/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/19/supreme-court-grants-new-trial-for-teacher-over-nude-student-pictures-on-school-owned-computer/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:36:46 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=305319 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/19/supreme-court-grants-new-trial-for-teacher-over-nude-student-pictures-on-school-owned-computer/feed/ 0 OTTAWA – Bosses who discover employees doing illegal personal business on their work computers... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/12/friends-without-benefit/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/12/friends-without-benefit/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:54:01 +0000 Tamsin McMahon http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302188 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/12/friends-without-benefit/feed/ 0 As the social media site once again tries to grow its revenue, a familiar fear returns http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/04/think-you-have-a-right-to-privacy-online-think-again-says-ontario-court/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/04/think-you-have-a-right-to-privacy-online-think-again-says-ontario-court/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:20:11 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=300315 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/04/think-you-have-a-right-to-privacy-online-think-again-says-ontario-court/feed/ 0 Yes, it was about child pornography—but the implications for the rest of us are scary http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/04/privacy-commissioner-finds-a-big-jump-in-complaints-and-data-breaches/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/04/privacy-commissioner-finds-a-big-jump-in-complaints-and-data-breaches/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:13:37 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=300248 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/04/privacy-commissioner-finds-a-big-jump-in-complaints-and-data-breaches/feed/ 0 OTTAWA – Canada’s privacy commissioner saw a big jump in the number of complaints... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/24/facebook-if-anything-was-exposed-likely-it-was-how-little-we-trust-it/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/24/facebook-if-anything-was-exposed-likely-it-was-how-little-we-trust-it/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:00:08 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=296459 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/24/facebook-if-anything-was-exposed-likely-it-was-how-little-we-trust-it/feed/ 0 Is the glitch with the social network or with its users' brains? http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/07/26/google-facebook-amazon-and-ebay-go-to-washington/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/07/26/google-facebook-amazon-and-ebay-go-to-washington/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:20:30 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=276804 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/07/26/google-facebook-amazon-and-ebay-go-to-washington/feed/ 0 Meet the Internet Association, the big dot-coms' lobby group http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/19/on-second-thought-7/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/19/on-second-thought-7/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:44:07 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=268846 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/19/on-second-thought-7/feed/ 0 Yesterday, the NDP’s Rosane Dore Lefebrve asked Public Safety Minister Vic Toews if he... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/07/the-virtual-self-cbcs-nora-young-talks-about-her-new-book/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/07/the-virtual-self-cbcs-nora-young-talks-about-her-new-book/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:05:39 +0000 Peter Nowak http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=264822 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/07/the-virtual-self-cbcs-nora-young-talks-about-her-new-book/feed/ 0 Ever wondered why we share so much information about ourselves and what happens to it? http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/30/control-alt-erase/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/30/control-alt-erase/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 15:57:01 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=260571 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/30/control-alt-erase/feed/ 0 A Stanford professor wants tech giants to allow kids to permanently erase personal information http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/22/facebooks-stock-has-never-been-lower-with-me/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/22/facebooks-stock-has-never-been-lower-with-me/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 16:48:40 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=260159 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/22/facebooks-stock-has-never-been-lower-with-me/feed/ 0 I can't quite delete my account, but I look at it less and less http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/17/facebooks-secret-rolling-with-the-punches/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/17/facebooks-secret-rolling-with-the-punches/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 16:35:11 +0000 Peter Nowak http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=259245 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/17/facebooks-secret-rolling-with-the-punches/feed/ 0 The ubiquitous social network somehow always comes out on top http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/16/virgin-atlantic-to-allow-passengers-to-use-cell-phones-in-flight/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/16/virgin-atlantic-to-allow-passengers-to-use-cell-phones-in-flight/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 19:58:17 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=259077 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/16/virgin-atlantic-to-allow-passengers-to-use-cell-phones-in-flight/feed/ 0 The last bastion of freedom from the intrusive, ubiquitous, unrelenting tyranny of cell phone clamour is about to disappear http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/08/privacy-simplified/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/08/privacy-simplified/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 17:36:51 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=257438 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/08/privacy-simplified/feed/ 0 A trio of Yale students has developed a free service to help users navigate the ins and outs of privacy agreements http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/13/do-canadian-cops-need-warrants-for-gps-tracking/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/13/do-canadian-cops-need-warrants-for-gps-tracking/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:51:11 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=252306 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/13/do-canadian-cops-need-warrants-for-gps-tracking/feed/ 0 In the U.S. police can even buy a monthly subscription to customers' tracking data http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/02/stalking-women-theres-an-app-for-that/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/02/stalking-women-theres-an-app-for-that/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:52:07 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=250041 Girls Around Me lets users track neighborhood girls and read their Facebook profiles]]> http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/02/stalking-women-theres-an-app-for-that/feed/ 0 Girls Around Me lets users track neighborhood girls and read their Facebook profiles http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/09/score-one-for-luddism-fbi-reverts-to-old-school-tracking-tactics/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/09/score-one-for-luddism-fbi-reverts-to-old-school-tracking-tactics/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:17:07 +0000 Alex Ballingall http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=244917 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/09/score-one-for-luddism-fbi-reverts-to-old-school-tracking-tactics/feed/ 0 For those who feel like strangers in a digital world, who long for the... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/01/googles-new-privacy-or-lack-thereof-policy-goes-into-effect-today/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/01/googles-new-privacy-or-lack-thereof-policy-goes-into-effect-today/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:40:57 +0000 Gabriela Perdomo http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=243138 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/01/googles-new-privacy-or-lack-thereof-policy-goes-into-effect-today/feed/ 0 Today marks the first day Internet giant Google will start sharing the information it... http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/27/after-vikileaks-we-can-protect-privacy-or-outgrow-it/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/27/after-vikileaks-we-can-protect-privacy-or-outgrow-it/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:58:53 +0000 Adam Goldenberg http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=242444 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/27/after-vikileaks-we-can-protect-privacy-or-outgrow-it/feed/ 0 How the Facebook generation is handing the Earth over to the meek http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/21/vic-toews-meet-fake-ann-cavoukian/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/21/vic-toews-meet-fake-ann-cavoukian/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:24:14 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=241051 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/21/vic-toews-meet-fake-ann-cavoukian/feed/ 0 Ironically, Ontario's privacy commissioner (a harsh critic of Lawful Access) also has a detested Twitter doppelganger http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/14/lawful-access-a-creepy-valentine-from-vic-toews/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/14/lawful-access-a-creepy-valentine-from-vic-toews/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:33:38 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=239708 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/14/lawful-access-a-creepy-valentine-from-vic-toews/feed/ 0 No one will 'read emails without a warrant,' he says. Indeed, it may be much worse than that. http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/02/facebooks-going-public-and-so-are-you/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/02/facebooks-going-public-and-so-are-you/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:26:10 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=237236 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/02/02/facebooks-going-public-and-so-are-you/feed/ 0 Why the tech behemoth may accelerate the erosion of privacy http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/18/police-no-good-examples-of-why-we-need-lawful-access/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/18/police-no-good-examples-of-why-we-need-lawful-access/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:28:42 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=234286 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/01/18/police-no-good-examples-of-why-we-need-lawful-access/feed/ 0 Evidence obtained by OpenMedia shows struggle to justify warrantless Internet surveillance http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/12/07/why-not-searching-on-google-is-stupid/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/12/07/why-not-searching-on-google-is-stupid/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:37:20 +0000 Peter Nowak http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=228771 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/12/07/why-not-searching-on-google-is-stupid/feed/ 4 Privacy-concious users complain about the search engine giant–but they do have a choice http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/08/privacys-not-dead/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/08/privacys-not-dead/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:39:02 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=225426 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/08/privacys-not-dead/feed/ 0 Canada's privacy commissioner on how the protection of personal information today starts with taking control http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/the-registry-and-privacy/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/the-registry-and-privacy/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:32:35 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=223003 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/the-registry-and-privacy/feed/ 13 Public Safety Minister Vic Toews first claimed that long-gun registry data needed to be... http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/boo-a-brief-history-of-technology-scares/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/boo-a-brief-history-of-technology-scares/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:50:40 +0000 Peter Nowak http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=222891 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/boo-a-brief-history-of-technology-scares/feed/ 2 People have been worrying about the effects of new technology since, well, fire http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/19/think-youre-not-on-facebook-think-again/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/19/think-youre-not-on-facebook-think-again/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:52:55 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=220552 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/19/think-youre-not-on-facebook-think-again/feed/ 8 The social networking site doesn't need you to be a member to get your data http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/30/caught-in-the-net/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/30/caught-in-the-net/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:00:01 +0000 Chris Sorensen http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/06/caught-in-the-net/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/30/caught-in-the-net/feed/ 4 Will its increasingly complex website be its undoing? http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/21/this-is-my-best-birthday-ever/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/21/this-is-my-best-birthday-ever/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:50:01 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/22/this-is-my-best-birthday-ever/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/21/this-is-my-best-birthday-ever/feed/ 1 Having 700 people remember your big day is gratifying, even if they’re strangers http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/20/fitness-test-abuse/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/20/fitness-test-abuse/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:00:48 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=215129 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/20/fitness-test-abuse/feed/ 0 A Vancouver Island First Nation sues over land claims, and a transgendered woman in Winnipeg accuses police of abuse http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/07/layton-the-final-enigma/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/07/layton-the-final-enigma/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:49:37 +0000 Colby Cosh http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=213396 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/07/layton-the-final-enigma/feed/ 151 Eventually, Canada will begin to oblige men in Layton's position to be excruciatingly forthright about their health http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/24/google-wants-to-see-your-papers/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/24/google-wants-to-see-your-papers/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:17:30 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=211388 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/24/google-wants-to-see-your-papers/feed/ 8 Google will let you use whatever name you want—so long as it's on your driver's license, too http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/21/with-friends-like-these-2/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/21/with-friends-like-these-2/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:08:41 +0000 Chris Sorensen http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=201892 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/21/with-friends-like-these-2/feed/ 13 A tool that lets users export their Facebook ‘friends’ to a rival service may expose the site’s Achilles heel http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/30/the-watcher/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/30/the-watcher/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:52:38 +0000 Aaron Wherry http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=199883 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/30/the-watcher/feed/ 12 Tabatha Southey questions the Internet surveillance portion of the government’s promised omnibus crime bill.... http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/20/high-tech-smear-job/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/20/high-tech-smear-job/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 12:05:22 +0000 Chris Sorensen http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=192704 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/20/high-tech-smear-job/feed/ 0 Facebook’s attempts to plant nasty news stories about Google shows just how intense the rivalry between the two has become http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/17/cleaning-up-privacy-laws/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/17/cleaning-up-privacy-laws/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 13:50:15 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=191349 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/17/cleaning-up-privacy-laws/feed/ 5 Should government or the courts draw the line between free speech and the right to privacy? http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/22/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-doggone-it-apple-tracks-me/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/22/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-doggone-it-apple-tracks-me/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:18:04 +0000 Jesse Brown http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=186459 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/22/im-good-enough-im-smart-enough-and-doggone-it-apple-tracks-me/feed/ 13 So what if your iPhone tells Apple where you've been? http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/29/dont-touch-my-junk/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/29/dont-touch-my-junk/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:40:30 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=159822 http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/29/dont-touch-my-junk/feed/ 9 Are Canada and the U.S. sacrificing privacy in the name of security? http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/07/saying-nein-to-street-view/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/07/saying-nein-to-street-view/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:00:19 +0000 Stephanie Findlay http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=150910 http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/07/saying-nein-to-street-view/feed/ 0 Germans are among the most frequent users of Street View, they reportedly aren’t so comfortable over the possibility of seeing their own houses online