As demonstrated across Canada recently, potentially privacy-invasive technologies are entering our everyday lives with increasing regularity. In recent weeks and months, Canadians have pondered the possibility of surveillance cameras on buses, radio frequency identification technology in trash bins and have witnessed the entrance of facial-recognition technology into casinos. Privacy is affecting what many view as "low tech" industries, writes Brian Bowman for the Winnipeg Sun. Bowman adds that we'll see more of this in the coming year and, accompanying it, we'll hear more calls for privacy by design, the embedding of privacy within such technologies.
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