Volume I

Issue : 6: September 18, 2003

• Three Privacy Studies Recently Released
• Florida Supreme Court Rules State Employees Are Not Required to Disclose Emails
• Over 27 Million Victims of Identity Theft In The Last Five Years
• CIRA s New Policies and Amendments Effective as of September 25 2003
• UKs Advertising Standard Authority Issues First Spam Decision
• Delivery of Pop up Ads Found to be Legal
• Harvard Publishes UDRP Guide
• U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds City Refusal to Include Link To Publication Critical of City Officials
• U.S. Recording Industry Takes Action Against Individual Users and Announces Amnesty
• U.S. Justice Department Files Injunction to Shut Down RxDepot
• First Case Under Amber Alert Legislation
• Ontario To Use Software to Meet Privacy and Access to Information Laws
• Alberta Court of Appeal Upholds Acquittal of Spammer
• FDA Warns Website Selling Canadian Pharmaceuticals

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Ontario To Use Software to Meet Privacy and Access to Information Laws

IBM and the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) have launched a joint project to create an electronic template of current privacy legislation in an attempt to address privacy concerns and to ensure compliance with the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act (FIPPA). It is anticipated that the electronic template will permit different divisions within companies and government to access information contained in their databases and simultaneously comply with the FIPPA. The software, developed by IBM, operates by building privacy rules into a database. A company can then ensure that the information that is stored and disseminated complies with the FIPPA requirements. The software will be tested at an Ontario Ministry to determine its efficacy.

For a copy of the Joint Press Release, visit:

http://shorl.com/ganetoresyda