By Carl Meyer
The government’s plan to roll out biometric passports next year has been cast in doubt after previous efforts resulted in soaring costs and revised deadlines. At the same time, privacy experts are castigating …

By Dennis Kennedy
Now that more than 200 million people have joined Facebook, lawyers are starting to experiment with this most popular form of social media. It’s not that lawyers feel it’s especially safe to do …

By Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D.
The concept of “stimulus” may soon take on new connotations in the days ahead. The federal government is poised to emplace full-body scanners at airports across the nation, capable of peering …

By The Economist | LONDON
AMERICA has firmed up its response to the security failures that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a Detroit-bound flight with an explosive device in Amsterdam on Christmas …

By Tonda MacCharles
OTTAWA – It took months, but Montreal author Jaspreet Singh finally cleared his name and was cleared to fly.
Based in Calgary last year, Singh was suddenly hit with lengthy interrogations when he tried …

By Pete Cashmore
London, England — A U.K. firm is set to launch a camera to capture every moment of a person’s life. While you may reel at the privacy implications, I’d wager that the high …

By Tom Burghardt
That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché.
It should come as no …

By SARAH LYALL
POOLE, England — It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government …

By Joanna Smith

OTTAWA – A sweeping search through the home of a suspected terrorist – including a drawer full of underwear belonging to his wife – violated the man’s constitutional right to privacy, a Federal …

By Jessica Ravitz
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of “whole-body imaging,” the airport security technology that critics say performs “a …

By Penni Stewart
Spring brings the conference season, a time of travel to far-flung destinations and for international colleagues to visit Canada. Before setting off, however, be aware that global security initiatives are making travel more …

JIM BRONSKILL
The Canadian Press,April 27, 2009
OTTAWA — The Canadian Security Intelligence Service makes a “disconcerting” number of mistakes in applications for eavesdropping warrants, raising potential concerns about liberties and privacy, says a watchdog over the …

Alan Travis, home affairs editor
The Guardian, Monday 23 March 2009
A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection and rights laws, …

BILL CURRY
From Friday’s Globe and Mail
February 13, 2009 at 4:19 AM EST
OTTAWA — Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart delivered a stern warning to the federal government yesterday, saying she is strongly opposed to any legislation that …