VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Privacy commissioners in two Canadian provinces are reviewing whether bars that scan patrons' driver's licenses for security purposes are within the law.
OTTAWA, July 4 (UPI) -- Nearly half of all Canadians have refused to give personal information to a retailer, fearing loss of privacy, a survey indicates.
OTTAWA, June 4 (UPI) -- Canada's privacy commissioner says companies are being lax in protecting consumer data after 2007 saw a "year of data privacy disasters."
OTTAWA, April 25 (UPI) -- The Canadian government is considering legislation that would leave it up to companies to advise customers when data theft occurs.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Privacy advocates oppose a plan to collect personal data on U.S. travelers flying to Europe, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
MONTREAL, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- TJX Cos. failed to have adequate security safeguards to stop hackers from stealing 45.7 million credit-card numbers, a Canadian government probe found Tuesday.
STRASBOURG, France, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Google has urged governments and private businesses to adopt a basic set of global Internet privacy rules.
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- Despite several high-profile compromises of private information, the U.S. Department of Defense is not protecting personal data adequately, a report says.
BRUSSELS, June 18 (UPI) -- European privacy regulators said Internet search engine Google's latest efforts to improve data privacy protection measures are "not enough."
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. search engine giant Google said Tuesday it would cut the time it keeps users' personal search data to 18 months to ease EU concerns.
WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- Lawmakers are concerned about a Department of Homeland Security computer system that mines personal information about U.S. citizens as it looks for terrorists.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence officials require more access to airline data to prevent terror strikes, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff wrote Tuesday.
CANBERRA, Australia, July 23 (UPI) -- Privacy advocates in Australia are warning of an unprecedented governmental sharing of personal information on millions of people.
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) --
