Canadian blogger publishes privacy manifesto
In wake of the recent spotlight on online privacy regulations -- stemming from an incident earlier this month where Facebook Inc. banned a user for trying to export his data from the social networking giant onto a rival site -- a Canadian tech blogger has created a new set of guidelines which aims to bring established privacy principles to online companies.
In his guest column to popular tech blog GigaOm, Alec Saunders, co-founder and CEO of Ottawa-based Iotum, outlined his "Privacy Manifesto for the Web 2.0 era." Saunders based his privacy standards on common legislation that currently exists in Western Europe and Canada, but is largely absent in the United States. The goal, Saunders explained, is to make consumers and businesses more aware of the importance of fair privacy policies on the Web to protect personal information.
