Ignore privacy commissioner, says PI lawyer

AgentSmith — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:10:07 +0000

After a growing number of complaints against insurance companies, Canada’s privacy commissioner released guidelines to protect people against covert video surveillance, characterizing it as an “extremely privacy-invasive form of technology” to be considered “only in the most limited cases”. “Covert surveillance is an intrusive act and if there are other means to resolve a dispute, we believe they should be explored first,” assistant commissioner Elizabeth Denham has told the Canwest News Service . But lawyer Norman Groot, speaking for the Canadian Association of Private Investigators, says PIs needn’t be “deterred” by her views.

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Google Maps Track Iran Protests

Adi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:50:53 +0000

As the protests in Iran continue for the second week, a Google user named Xárene Eskandar is following the activity on a Google Maps page, logging the events each day as they’re reported. The latest map from Wednesday , tracks events by the hour and shows the movement of special forces vans and military helicopters as they close in on protesters as well as the location where protesters have reported seeing or hearing gunshots. Although the protests began as dissension against the election results, they appear to have quickly evolved into a mass movement for civil rights reform, marked by iconic images of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman who was slain by a government sniper on Saturday while watching the protest in the street.

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