Leslie Young reports: Federal institutions reported 256 data breaches in 2014-15, according to the annual report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. That’s up from 228 breaches the year before – which was double the number from the year before that. Read more on Global News.
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Small-Scale Violations of Medical Privacy Often Cause the Most Harm
Note: the following article was reported by Charles Ornstein of ProPublica, Dec. 10, 2015, 5 a.m. and is reproduced under Creative Commons license. Although Ornstein did not mention it in his reporting, the case of Tami Matteson was previously covered on this site in 2013 in a post entitled ” ‘Small’ breach, big harm.” In that article,…
Ca: Alberta Health department flouts privacy law, watchdog finds
Matt McClure reports: Alberta Health is flouting the law by failing to provide the required oversight to prevent snooping and privacy breaches involving electronic health records, says the province’s privacy watchdog. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner released an investigation report Wednesday that found a legally-mandated committee charged with overseeing stewardship of data made…
Hackers Could Take Control Of Your Car, But You Can’t Sue Carmakers For That Risk
Eric Goldman writes: Cars contain millions of lines of software code, which makes them tempting targets for hackers. Further, with the increased automation of cars, we face growing risks that malicious hackers will remotely take control of cars and cause significant personal or property damage. Ideally, car manufacturers would be actively combating this risk, but…
Hong Kong government praised for world-leading data protection protocols despite weaknesses exposed by hacking of VTech
Jack Liu reports: As Hong Kong reels from last month’s hacking of children’s toy maker VTech, global telecoms experts say the city is still one of the world’s leading lights in terms of the importance it places on protecting data privacy. “Hong Kong is at or near the top of the list in addressing the cyber security privacy…
Personal data of Dutch telecom providers extremely poorly protected: how I could access 12+ million records #phonehousegate
Words fail. Just read this post by Sijmen Ruwhof.