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WIRELESS SECURITY: Ontario Privacy Commissioner wants to see more action, too

TORONTO – Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner says she, too, would like to see the Canadian wireless industry do far more for their customers on the security front. Dr. Ann Cavoukian told Cartt.ca in a recent interview that she supports the CRTC’s renewed insistence on holding our wireless carriers’ collective feet to the fire when it comes to helping their customers protect the data on their mobile phones when they are lost or stolen. “Absolutely, they should be doing more,” said Dr. Cavoukian of the country’s wireless service providers. “I mean, it's no longer just you lose your cell phone,”...