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The Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute operates downtown Toronto, ON, and is a part of Ryerson University.

The Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute is located at the Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM).

On the picture: one of the rooms of TRSM.

The Privacy Institute undertakes research about privacy and cyber crime issues such as workplace surveillance, biometrics, monitoring, identity theft, security breaches, and online social networks.

Find out about special conferences, talks and presentations on our News & Events page.

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Dr. Avner Levin

Telephone:

(416) 979-5000 x7690

Email Address:

avner.levin@ryerson.ca

Position Currently Held:

Director, Privacy & Cyber Crime Institute.

March 12th, 2013:

Read the official statement from Charmaine Borg about Bill C-475.

 

February 19th, 2013:

US-based cyber security and threat intelligence centre Mandiant released a report that exposed China's cyber attacks on US. The People’s Republic of China responded at a news conference that it had nothing to do with large-scale cyberattacks against more than a hundred U.S. businesses.

Read the latest articles on this topic from leading analysts of The New York Times, BBC, Venture Beat, and All Things D. Check out our News Page to access the video from Mandiant that shows how the attacks have been executed.

 

We celebrated International Privacy Day

on January 28, 2013

The Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute hosted an event "Social Media and Privacy: at home, at work and on the road" on Monday, January 28, 2013.

Dedicated to the International Privacy Day, this was a big event to raise awareness about privacy concerns and discuss current privacy issues and solutions to protect personal privacy.

We published one of the presentations from the event online - the slides from Shayan Mashatian's talk "Personal Data Protection: a guide for mobile developers". It is available HERE.

 


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RECENTLY PUBLISHED

 

  • Howard Simkevitz and Avner Levin are the authors of a new book, "The Law of Employee Use of Technology".

  • Roy Ng is the author of a chapter on Information Security Assurance and Risk Management in a new book dealing with the subject.

 

  • Wendy Cukier and Avner Levin are the authors of a chapter on cyber-crime in a new book, now out, titled “Crimes of the Internet”.