The Ontario Privacy Commissioner’s recently released annual report talks about protecting personal information on mobile devices and the privacy by design concept for the creation of new technology.
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Test your ID theft risk
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner posted a link to a short test to see how you fare in minimizing the risk of ID theft that is on a website managed by the Australian Privacy Commissioner.
This was created for Privacy Awareness Week, which is an annual promotion by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) forum which includes the Privacy Commissioners of British Columbia and Canada.
Encrypt-Stick Encryption Safeguards Your Data
You’re a medical technician and your laptop just got stolen. It contained samples of about a quarter of a million lab tests for reportable and communicable diseases with identifiable names and personal health numbers. Even worse imagine if your name was one of them.
Theft 101: Don’t Steal From A Security Company
Jesse Michaels - January 29th, 2010
What is a thief to do at the Consumer Electronics Show, where most of the new and cool gadgets on display are tethered or protected by some sort of security? Steal a guest book, of course.
That’s what one rather inept thief tried to do, only he picked the worst target possible: the booth of Swann Security, a company specializing in home security equipment. Naturally, Swann’s cameras recorded the entire incident!
