Compliance Management

Ann Cavoukian, privacy commissioner of Ontario, discusses how privacy risks must be considered as smart meters are deployed to homes throughout North America. Many utilities, she says, are overlooking the privacy dangers, such as third-parties gaining access to homeowners' electrical usage patterns, but that mindset must change.

The privacy commissioner of Canada, who has led investigations into the data-handling practices of Google and Facebook, offered a keynote Tuesday at SC Congress Canada in Toronto.

The smart grid certainly brings security concerns, but less-often mentioned are privacy risks, an official said Tuesday at SC Congress Canada.

As more organizations continue migrating to the cloud, what should information leaders at organizations be asking of their provider?

The Canadian government has apologised to a veteran after the privacy commissioner found that it mishandled his sensitive personal information.

As the Canadian Privacy Commissioner concluded an investigation into Google last month, it slammed the company for its unauthorized collection of Wi-Fi data.

There was broad general support for establishing high standards of data security at a public forum convened by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, but most respondents do not feel that the government should take the lead.