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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Three Privacy Studies Recently Released

Three recent studies have been released on the issue of privacy. They are as follows:

EPIC - 2003 Privacy and Human Rights Report - On September 5, 2003, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, released its annual survey on privacy and data protection. The report reviews the state of privacy in over fifty countries around the globe. This study reveals that governments have enhanced their surveillance powers at the cost of intruding into fundamental human rights including privacy.

European Union - New Technology and Respect for Privacy in the Workplace - This comparative study focuses on the relationship between Internet and email use at work and privacy. The study is based on reports of individual nations submitted by the European Industrial Relations Observatory On-line's (EIRO) national centers.

Ontario - The Security-Privacy Paradox: Issues, Misconceptions and Strategies - The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and Deloitte & Touche, released a report on August 2003, dealing with security and privacy issues in organizations that use personal information of individuals. The paper seeks to clarify the "security-privacy paradox for senior executives and other professionals", and puts great emphasis on the issue of privacy.

For further information on the New Technology and Respect for Privacy study, visit:

http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2003/07/study/TN0307101S.html

For a copy of the 2003 Privacy and Human Rights Report, visit:

http://www.epic.org/bookstore/phr2003/press_advisory.html

For a copy of the Joint Report on Privacy Released in Ontario, visit:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?F348248D5