Tag Archives: government
Canadian Privacy Advocates and Their Privacy Commissioners
What isn’t good, is that the listserv is damnably hard to find – it’s kept very private, and is effectively just word of mouth. This leaves the public out of the discussion, and leaves advocates and commissioners in a bubble that the public should at least be able to find via Google. This is a serious problem, and (to my mind) speaks of a not bizarre, and a potentially problematic, relationship between advocates and officials. Continue reading
Deep Packet Inspection and the Confluence of Privacy Regimes
Given how difficult I found it to find successful SSHRC-related research statements (save for through personal contacts) I wanted to post my own statement for others to look at and download if they so wish. Continue reading
Note: EDLs in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia?
(I lack anything that would substantiate or disprove the claim that New Brunswick’s interest has waned; I also don’t know what the report stated and so can’t know if it would influence the government’s position.) … In particular, the author fails to identify what data is contained within, or emitted from, the EDL (i.e. the proxy identifier), fails to accurately identify the privacy risks that advocates have noted, and implies that EDLs will speed up border crossing times (to date, it looks like it only shaves about .8 seconds off each border cross). My problem is that while the author makes it seem like EDLs are particularly risky from a privacy point of view (which they are), what he is actually talking about are ePassports (and similar smart cards). Continue reading
Update: Mobiles and Your Identity
Last year I authored a post entitled “Mobiles and Your Identity“, where I attempted to unpack some of the privacy and surveillance concerns that are associated with smart phones, such as RIM’s Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone. In particular, I focused … Continue reading
