Privacy
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008Last year, PIPEDA - the act that is supposed to guarantee privacy in the Internet age for Canadians was passed into law. It’s a tough law, and requires that every organization (including every business) in Canada must have a privacy policy that is available to anyone that requests it.
Penalties for non-compliance are stiff as […]
Secrets That Hard Drives Can Hold
Sunday, March 16th, 2008What do you do with old hard drives? Toss them out? Sell them to a friend? Stick them in another computer?
Looks like someone decided to sell an old hard drive on E-Bay. Problem was, once the purchaser received the hard drive, he discovered that it contained sensitive police data. It seems that this hard drive […]
Trusting The Government?
Sunday, March 16th, 2008I’ve had some very interesting and forthright email with someone whose political viewpoints are most certainly different from mine. However, the correspondence back and forth has been refreshingly respectful and courteous. We haven’t bashed each other, and have even managed to acknowledge each other’s positions. One of his comments about me as being a libertarian […]
Buying A Color Laser?
Sunday, March 16th, 2008If you’re considering the purchase of a color laser, and your concerned about your privacy, you might want to rethink your purchase. In a revelation that should concern you, it seems that major printing companies have a feature which can track any document printed on a color laser back to you. It’s like a digital […]
E-Mail Privacy
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Let’s carry on our discussion a bit, from last night regarding expectations of privacy. And in that context, let’s talk about e-mail. Most people I know that use e-mail, give no thought to who may read their messages before it arrives in the in-box of the intended recipient. E-mail seems so instantaneous, doesn’t it?
Papers, Please
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Good news!
“America’s Quixote of air travel is back in the fight: John Gilmore, whose legal fight against airline identification (ID) requirements was detailed in a Reason cover story (”Suspected Terrorist,” August/September 2003), has appealed the district court decision to dismiss his case.”