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Ontario looks to step up privacy protection

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 in News

Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian released a statement calling for stricter approaches to privacy protection in the wake of expanding use of emerging biometric and other surveillance and identification technologies, according to a CBC News article. The document released by the commissioner detailed the expectation that new technologies be required to have privacy protection measures built-in.


Specifically, Cavoukian outlines possibilities such as systems identifying access levels and not necessarily the person in efforts to protect a person’s attributes. Additional suggestions for future privacy restrictions include encryption of video surveillance.

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