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Ninety per cent of the data in the world today was created in the last two years. It has been remarked, for example, that “[t]here was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every two days, and the pace is increasing.“1 Welcome to the age of Big Data. This data is being generated by sensors and humans, from practically everywhere, and at a blistering pace that surely will continue to only increase. As some refrigerators are now sold Internet-ready and prescription pill vials are now reporting on their status via the cellular network, there are big changes on the horizon.
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Source: GPS by Design
With the shift from industrial manufacturing to knowledge creation and service delivery, the value of information and the need to manage it responsibly have grown dramatically. At the same time, rapid innovation, global competition and increasing system complexity present profound challenges for informational privacy.
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Ann Cavoukian (City of Ontario, Canada),
David Vladeck (FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection),
Alexander Macgillivray (Twitter)
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The Harper government says laws are needed to respond to the rapidly changing online world. Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian tells Steve Paikin why she is concerned that Bill C-30 goes too far.
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Privacy by Design is a concept that is virally spreading around the globe. The powerful concept of engineering privacy directly into the design of new technologies, business practices and networked infrastructure, in order to achieve the doubly-enabled pairing of functionality and privacy, has gained significant adoption by governments, researchers and industry, in any number of sectors.