Privacy

You check out Facebook to see if one of your friends or someone in your family has done something interesting. Your attention is drawn to a holiday advert. That’s a coincidence, you think, because just before you went to Facebook you had been searching internet for a holiday destination. But…

On this international Data Privacy Day, and after a year of severe abuses, it is worth reflecting on why it is essential to protect privacy.   Privacy is often cast as an abstract or undervalued concept associated with a desire to keep secret certain aspects of our activities or our…

European Citizens have a fundamental right to privacy, it is important for organisations which process personal data to be cognisant of this right. When carried out effectively, anonymisation and pseudonymisation can be used to protect the privacy rights of individual data subjects and allow organisations to balance this right to…

The RCMP has been quietly running an operation monitoring individuals’ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media activity for at least two years, The Tyee has learned. The existence of Project Wide Awake has never been reported. And The Tyee investigation revealed that the RCMP has moved from a “reactive”…

There are two sets of reasons to care about your privacy even if you’ve got nothing to hide: ideological reasons and practical reasons. Ideological reasons Your privacy is a right you haven’t always had. Just like the right to interracial marriage, the right to divorce, female labor, the freedom of…