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Bad Privacy Blog by Claudiu Popa

What Can We Learn From Canada Revenue Agency’s Privacy Practices?

When opening a new account on the Canada Revenue Agency’s site, a newly-streamlined process made it easy for me to open an account and even…

Feb 28

What Can We Learn From Canada Revenue Agency’s Privacy Practices?

Feb 28

Principles and Implications of Age Assurance: Towards a Common International Approach

When the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced its recent Exploratory Consultation on the implications of modern age…

Sep 23, 2024

Principles and Implications of Age Assurance: Towards a Common International Approach

Sep 23, 2024

Where are all the privacy pros when the world needs them?

Crimes against humanity and the systematic suppression of human rights should be the lifeblood of privacy, AI and ethics “experts”, but…

Aug 9, 2024

Where are all the privacy pros when the world needs them?

Aug 9, 2024

Make One Deposit and Change Your Life

“I think you all understand the scale of this event and the resources we have mobilized”.

Jun 6, 2024

Make One Deposit and Change Your Life

Jun 6, 2024

560 Million Human Identities Have Been Stolen. Who’s at Risk?

The Ticketmaster / LiveNation Data Breach Will Be Remembered as One of the Largest Cybersecurity Blunders in Modern Times. What Subset of…

Jun 2, 2024

560 Million Human Identities Have Been Stolen. Who’s at Risk?

Jun 2, 2024

Protecting Children’s Data: What Will It Take?

Proposed legislation takes a multifaceted approach to student data privacy, but do these ideas make sense — and will they stick?

May 17, 2024

Protecting Children’s Data: What Will It Take?

May 17, 2024

Data Breaches in Canada’s Education Sector are Nothing New

It’s Not a Matter of Cover-Ups. It’s a Matter of Disincentives.

Apr 19, 2024

Data Breaches in Canada’s Education Sector are Nothing New

Apr 19, 2024

No Expectation of Privacy in Public? I Beg to Differ

Canadians are rapidly discovering smart vending machines with Internet-connected cameras installed “in many facilities across North…

Mar 4, 2024

No Expectation of Privacy in Public? I Beg to Differ

Mar 4, 2024

Rule #1 of Breach Response: Regain Trust by Working Backwards from the Worst Case Scenario

As part of a rapid fire succession of TV interviews earlier this week, I had the opportunity to read a 12-page report prepared for the…

Feb 23, 2024

Rule #1 of Breach Response: Regain Trust by Working Backwards from the Worst Case Scenario

Feb 23, 2024

The Privacy Pitfalls of EdTech AI — Navigating the ‘Big 7’ Narratives

Beware the dark side of EdTech AI: exploiting big data for profit under the guise of idealistic benefits.

Jan 30, 2024

The Privacy Pitfalls of EdTech AI — Navigating the ‘Big 7’ Narratives

Jan 30, 2024

Privacy at Risk: The Controversial Reality of Google’s Facial Data Collection from Children

Unveiling a disconcerting initiative, Google is actively gathering intricate details like eyelid shape and skin tone from children.

Jan 30, 2024

Privacy at Risk: The Controversial Reality of Google’s Facial Data Collection from Children

Jan 30, 2024

Will the Deteriorating Security Landscape Bring Privacy Down With It?

“The financial cybersecurity landscape in 2024 will be characterized by evolving threats, increased automation, and the persistence of…

Dec 20, 2023

Will the Deteriorating Security Landscape Bring Privacy Down With It?

Dec 20, 2023

Do Privacy Breach Victims Deserve to Know About Potential Identity Abuses?

Unsurprisingly, aggregators of financial data are a major target of cybercrime. Some mortgage lenders and brokers have taken steps to…

Dec 20, 2023

Do Privacy Breach Victims Deserve to Know About Potential Identity Abuses?

Dec 20, 2023

SEC New Cybersecurity Rules. What Does it Mean for US Businesses?

As of this morning, public companies operating in the U.S. now have 4 (four) days to disclose “material” cybersecurity incidents and data…

Dec 20, 2023

SEC New Cybersecurity Rules. What Does it Mean for US Businesses?

Dec 20, 2023

What the Dickens is “Virtual Privacy Awareness”?

This may come as a surprise to those recently impacted by viral clips of the “Ella” video purporting to be about privacy, but at its core…

Dec 3, 2023

What the Dickens is “Virtual Privacy Awareness”?

Dec 3, 2023

Is It Time for the Media to Discuss Privacy Harms with the Public?

I don’t envy those who will have to clean up a 1.5 TB data breach going back to the last millennium, involving compromised personal…

Nov 24, 2023

Is It Time for the Media to Discuss Privacy Harms with the Public?

Nov 24, 2023

Should Schools Use X (Twitter) to Confess to Losing Private Student Data?

Every breach of children’s privacy is severe and has the potential to cause lasting harms. Since the watershed year 2016 when many…

Nov 15, 2023

Should Schools Use X (Twitter) to Confess to Losing Private Student Data?

Nov 15, 2023

Disinformation, Tracking and Privacy Breaches Go Hand in Hand

As the team from Canada’s only cybersafety foundation briefed me on disinformation campaigns from the current conflict in the Middle East…

Nov 15, 2023

Disinformation, Tracking and Privacy Breaches Go Hand in Hand

Nov 15, 2023

We Should All Use a Password Manager, For Privacy’s Sake!

For the third annual World Password Day Survey, Bitwarden polled over 2,000 internet users globally (United States, United Kingdom…

Nov 15, 2023

We Should All Use a Password Manager, For Privacy’s Sake!

Nov 15, 2023

What’s wrong with this picture: While the Internet has monetized personal data, consumers have been…

Ever wonder how advertisers see you as you surf the Web? Here are some examples of actual labels automatically affixed to Internet users: >…

Jul 14, 2023

What’s wrong with this picture: While the Internet has monetized personal data, consumers have been…

Jul 14, 2023

Bad Privacy Blog by Claudiu Popa

Bad Privacy Blog by Claudiu Popa

Fīat jūstitia, ruat cælum. Personal musings on data protection fails, snafus & oddities, written & edited by Claudiu Popa; author, educator, booknerd.

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