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- The adequacy of protections for the privacy of Australians online - Report and Recommendations
- On 24 June 2010, the Australian Senate referred the matter of the adequacy of protections for the privacy of Australians online to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee for inquiry and report by 20 October 2010. The report was delivered April 2011.
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- Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet)
- Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Internet privacy has only just begun, by Dan Tynan (InfoWorld). CIO, 22 April, 2013. "For more than a decade we've been hearing that privacy is dead, especially when it comes to online privacy. It's hard to argue with the evidence. Law enforcement agencies routinely obtain location and call data from wireless carriers -- some 1.3 million times in 2011 alone, according to documents obtained by a U.S. Senate committee. Thanks to laws written when fax machines were considered high-tech, government agencies can access data from cloud storage with minimal judicial oversight. And with potential laws like the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), Congress wants to enable private companies to share even more customer data with Uncle Sam..."
Added: 25 April 2013;
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- Online Privacy – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- by Brian Clifton. Measuring Success, March 6, 2013. "Online privacy is a complex subject. Hence I use this slide to neatly sum up the issue by analogy. Essentially, to illustrate the different levels of privacy I use the scenario of an organisation wishing to understand the impact of traffic on their community. In my analogy: The organisation is analogous to a website owner/marketer; The road is the web; a car represents a visitor's browser; The person(s) in the car are the real people who are using the web; Destinations (shops, schools, houses) are the websites. PII = personally identifiable information. Essentially, as you move down this list the data becomes more personal and therefore privacy becomes more important to the visitor. Also it means your legal obligations with privacy increase, as well keeping on top of best practice so that your visitors actually trust you..."
Added: 8 March 2013;
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- Facebook users' privacy goes to a vote
- by Alexei Oreskovic. The Age, December 5, 2012. "Facebook has opened the polls for its 1 billion users to vote on a variety of changes to the social network's policies, including a proposal to scrap the user voting system that Facebook introduced in 2009. Facebook also said it had "clarified" some of the proposed changes, specifying that a new policy allowing it to share user data with recently acquired photo-application Instagram will be carried out in compliance with applicable laws and that Facebook will seek user consent when necessary..."
Added: 5 December 2012;
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- Online privacy issues evolving too fast for government regulation, says Google
- By Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press, October 30, 2012. "Ottawa — Search engine giant Google says it feels no need for governments to regulate online privacy policies. A policy manager for the company's Canadian operations told a House of Commons committee that it would be difficult to determine default positions for the policies. And Colin McKay says that's because the online world is evolving too quickly to set regulations in stone that would endure..."
Added: 1 November 2012;
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- Seizing Opportunity: Good Privacy Practices for Developing Mobile Apps
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, October 2012. "Canada's privacy laws require all businesses to balance innovation and entrepreneurialism with effective privacy protection. This applies to mobile app developers, whether they work on their own, or on behalf of an organization... It is important to recognize the complexity of the mobile app ecosystem and the many players who potentially can access personal information, including developers, service providers, app platforms, and advertisers. All stakeholders have a role to play in protecting the privacy of app users. This guidance is targeted to app developers: it focuses on the design and development of apps and the need to keep privacy top of mind in that creative process. In the future, we may address app privacy from other perspectives. This guidance has been prepared jointly by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Offices of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta and British Columbia to draw your attention to key privacy considerations when designing and developing mobile apps..."
Added: 29 October 2012;
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- Google told to fix privacy policy by EU data regulators
- BBC, 16 October 2012. "EU watchdogs have said Google must revise its privacy policy. It follows the firm's decision in March to consolidate 60 separate privacy policies into a single agreement. The move allowed it to pool data from across its products, including use of its video site YouTube, social network Google+ and smartphone system Android - potentially helping it target adverts..."
Added: 18 October 2012;
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- 'You Have NO Privacy. Get Over It'
- by Graeme Burton. ClickZ, October 16, 2012. "... Many people remain blasé about publishing the intimate details of their life online and, across the world, online privacy is under attack - from commercial organizations that want to know all there is to know about their customers to..."
Added: 17 October 2012;
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- Privacy and Data Management on Mobile Devices
- by Jan Lauren Boyles, Aaron Smith, Mary Madden. Pew Internet and American Life Project, September 5, 2012. "More than half of mobile application users have uninstalled or avoided certain apps due to concerns about the way personal information is shared or collected by the app, according to a nationally representative telephone survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. In all, 88% of U.S. adults now own cell phones, and 43% say they download cell phone applications or “apps” to their phones..."
Added: 6 September 2012;
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- Feds probe mobile app privacy safeguards
- Consumer advocates emphasise how little they know about how mobile firms operate as Commerce Department continues probe of apps amid broader online privacy inquiry. By Kennth Corbin - Framingham. Computerworld, Friday, 31 August, 2012. "The meeting, which focused on procedure as much as policy, saw the airing of a laundry list of concerns that privacy advocates have raised with the way that companies use the information that they collect about consumers through mobile apps. But although this is the third stakeholder meeting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has convened on the subject, many of the participants stressed the preliminary nature of the inquiry..."
Added: 3 September 2012;
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- Targeting vs. Privacy - Who Will Win?
- by Augustine Fou. ClickZ, August 16, 2012. "People probably realize that if they're online or use a mobile device, they're being tracked. But what most people probably don't realize is just how much data is being collected about them for the purpose of targeting ads at them. At some point users will rise up and defend themselves. At that point, what will advertisers do, when they no longer have the data for targeting or are no longer allowed to use the data they already have in such loose and unrestricted ways? Let's investigate..."
Added: 20 August 2012;
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- Incremental Opt-In: The End of the Privacy Problem
- by Jim Sterne. ClickZ, May 10, 2012. "... Simply put, it is up to you to convince people to hand over the keys to their personal data set. No one expects you to convince everybody to hand over all of their data. At least, not all at once. It would be foolish to even try. Instead, ask them to a provide a little at a time...just like in real life..."
Added: 15 May 2012;
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- Privacy and the Internet: Australian attitudes towards privacy in the online environment - in pdf format (240kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). By Alastair MacGibbon. University of Canberra, The Centre for Internet Safety, April 2012. "The Centre for Internet Safety at the University of Canberra partnered with eBay.com.au to survey eBay users about their attitudes towards privacy and how it affects their actions online. The survey was conducted by The Paradigm Shift Research Consultancy in March 2012 and is comprised of a representative sample of 700 Australians who visited eBay in the past 12 months... Key Findings: - 85% of online Australians believe data breach notification should be mandatory for business; - Australians nominated identity theft (86%) and loss of financial data (83%) as their areas of greatest privacy concern; - The financial sector is most trusted on privacy (42%), followed by government and the eCommerce sectors; - Social media is the least trusted industry on privacy (1%). In fact, 61% of respondents nominated the social media industry as having the worst privacy practices; - Overall, women feel more secure than men online, and younger people (18-29 years old) feel more secure than older people (50+ years old)..."
Added: 3 May 2012;
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- Social media sites could face court for Privacy Act breaches
- Failure to comply with the Privacy Act could result in the Privacy Commissioner taking social media websites to court, by Stephanie McDonald, Computerworld, 2 May, 2012. "Social media websites could find themselves in court if they breach Australia’s Privacy Act now that the Privacy Commissioner has been granted new powers to take breaches to court. The new powers allows the Privacy Commissioner to be able to accept undertakings from companies which can be enforced in court; make a determination in own motion investigations, where a complaint has not been lodged by an individual but the Office of the Australian Information Commission (OAIC) has received third-party information of breaches; seek civil penalties for serious or repeated breaches; and carry out performance assessments on private sector organisations..."
Added: 3 May 2012;
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- Survey Finds Facebook and Google Privacy Policies Even More Confusing Than Credit Card Bills and Government Notices
- Consumer Respondents Reveal Little Understanding of Policies, Answering Only Four Out of 10 Comprehension Questions Correctly. PR Newswire, New York, April 24, 2012. "A new survey released today by global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale (www.siegelgale.com) revealed confusion and frustration among consumers regarding Facebook and Google privacy policies. The survey of more than 400 respondents found that users have little understanding of how Facebook and Google track and store user information and activity, and how information is shared and with whom. On a scale of 0 to 100 (with a score of 80 indicating good comprehension), respondents who reviewed Facebook's and Google's privacy policies scored 39 and 36..."
Added: 26 April 2012;
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- How social networks sold your privacy
- by Stewart Mitchell. PC Pro, 23 March 2012. "Stewart Mitchell investigates how sites such as Facebook and Google+ are cashing in on your personal information When Facebook persuaded 800 million users to sign up, few subscribers would have realised they were the raw materials in a multibillion-pound production line, yet this is exactly how the company treats their information. Facebook, Google+ and advertising networks have turned exploiting personal data into an art form – and for the most part, consumers have given the information freely..."
Added: 26 March 2012;
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This category last updated: 25 April 2013
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