Huffington Post: Some people worry that certain companies have access to too much of our personal information, and they question the use those companies sometimes make of that data. Such worries should not be dismissed altogether, but objectively speaking, governments are by far the greater threat to our privacy, as recent spying scandals amply demonstrate. And because of these scandals, privacy watchdogs are finally starting to pay more attention to the privacy threat posed by governments.
Montreal’s La Presse newspaper revealed on Friday, April 11, that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was considering creating a new position of Inspector General to oversee the intelligence community in order to protect the public, in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations regarding certain activities of the National Security Agency (NSA).
