This week privacy was in the news …. wait a minute: Since whistleblower Edward Snowden started leaking documents last summer there hasn’t been a week when privacy wasn’t in the news.
What I meant to say is privacy was again in the news: At an M2M conference I covered in Toronto there were questions about handling personal data collected by the so-called Internet of Things. A Florida judge awarded victims of a health insurer’s theft of their personal data US$3 million. Then Ontario’s respected privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian announced that when her current term expires she’ll become director of a privacy and big data institute at Toronto’s RyersonUniversity.
So I thought for this week’s FollowFriday I’d introduce three Canadians who tweet on privacy.
Enter today’s #FollowFriday, or #FF. If you’ve been on Twitter and don’t know what this is, it’s a Friday standby where Twitter users recommend a list of accounts to others. For example, you might tweet, “#FF @itworldca @itbusinessca @compdealernews” to encourage your followers to follow these accounts, especially if you see value in their tweets.
Privacy concerns about non-governmental database listing sex offenders | The Chronicle Herald http://t.co/fYHDYGROML
— David T.S. Fraser (@privacylawyer) March 21, 2014
Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2014-03-19: Viacom Google copyright legal battle resolved http://… http://t.co/T0bUuyG3yA
— Barry Sookman (@bsookman) March 20, 2014
Barry Sookman is a member of the technology law practice at a Toronto law firm.
He’s the author of a six-volume treatise on computer and e-commerce law, co-author of a book on Canadian and international copyright law and a contributing author on a book on Canadian privacy law. And he’s a past chair of the Canadian Bar Association.
His tweets often encompass legal cases from around the world.
http://t.co/fBHT8fNsWi Is the U.S. becoming a police state?
— John Wunderlich (@PrivacyCDN) March 20, 2014
Finally, John Wunderlich is a Toronto information security and privacy consultant who helps organizations manage personal information. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, government departments, health information custodians and IT service providers. He’s also co-author of a legal book on corporate risk and privacy. And he’s a Six Sigma Black Belt.
He tweets several times a day on hot news, mostly on privacy but sometimes on things ranging from climate change to Canadian politics