Technology creates new privacy risks for Canadian youth

OTTAWA - Young Canadians are facing a host of privacy risks that previous generations never had to worry about, says the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. From ‘nanny cams’ to cell phone monitoring to a permanent trail of their online communications, youth privacy issues were at the forefront of the Commissioner's 2011 Annual Report to Parliament on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada's federal private-sector privacy law, that was tabled in Parliament this week. "While the young show agility in using any new kind of digital communication, and recognize the importance of protecting their privacy, they are also often unsuspecting...