Privacy Commissioner urges Canadians to take control of on-line personal information

OTTAWA - As more Canadians live their lives on-line, the Privacy Commissioner is cautioning them to take greater responsibility for securing their privacy and thinking twice about what they post on the Internet.In the Commission’s annual report to Parliament, tabled Tuesday, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart noted that many people have been fired, missed out on job interviews and academic opportunities, and been suspended from school for instant messages, wall posts and other types of on-line correspondence they mistakenly thought were private conversations with friends."Such openness can lead to greater creativity, literacy, networking and social engagement. But putting so much of their...