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The Woman Who's Making Your Privacy Her Business

Posted by samzenpus on from the never-disobey-mother dept.

davecb writes "The woman who faced down Facebook and was dissed by Silicon Valley business boys as 'an old-fashioned scold' is really one of the early advocates for using the internet for access to information, and to open up government. The Globe and Mail has an interview with Jennifer Stoddart, the privacy commissioner of Canada, who went up against Facebook for all of us, and made them back down."

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  1. "The Woman Who's Making Your Privacy Her Business" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My mom?

  2. Not private enough? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always thought that our privacy commisioner's identity should be unknown. Maybe he/she could appear on TV in a hood, speaking through a voice scrambler.

  3. Re:Idealist by SIR_Taco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Eh-men my fellow Canadian!

    (couldn't resist)

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  4. Re:"The Woman Who's Making Your Privacy Her Busine by antdude · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, your mom. :)

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