Canadian Tech Experts See Anonymization, or De-Identifying Data, as New Privacy Solution
Canadian privacy experts and technology developers look to data de-identification as a way to protect us all.
by Lee Rickwood
Tag: privacy
Legal Implications of BYOD Pose Threats to Canadian Corporate Data, Personal Privacy
While new hardware and software-based tech solutions are coming forward, BYOD security is ineffective and many current iterations of a BYOD policy inflict extensive hard and soft costs on employees and the corporations they work for.
by Lee Rickwood
Canada’s Moral Compass Points to Apathy on Online Privacy
The issue is often not as much about doing something wrong as it is about doing anything online, and being able to control – even be aware – where, why and how such information is accessed or used.
by Lee Rickwood
Canadians Join Call to Curtail Tech Spying; Sunshine Summits Planned across Country
International organizations are calling for governments around the world to curtail the pervasive state spying and the mass surveillance of innocent individuals.
By Lee Rickwood
Metadata Collection Violates Our Right to Privacy
From the point of view of search engine and social network operators, retail advertisers and mass marketers, political parties and their pollsters, law enforcement or public security agencies, the more information the better.
by Lee Rickwood
New Tools for Online Anonymity, Digital Privacy from Canadian Developers
Corporate meta-data collection and governmental online surveillance activities are worrisome to some, intimidating to others, so new tools for digital anonymity are being developed.
by Lee Rickwood
BYOD Convenience Comes at a Cost
Cost analysis of ‘bring-your-own-device’ workplaces by a major mobile solutions company shows that companies can shift operational costs directly to their employees.
By Lee Rickwood
New Internet Exchange Point Promises Faster Web in Canada
More Canadian IXPs are coming online this year, and that should mean faster Internet service and cheaper prices for Web users in Canada.
by Lee Rickwood