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Mayor's opt-in email strategy signals new privacy paradigm at City Hall

26 May 2011

Do you need to be more careful about emailing anyone at Vision City Hall? Imagine the following. A concerned citizen emails former Premier and MLA Gordon Campbell last year with a question about support for daycare in his Vancouver-Point...

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City Manager stonewalls on access to information request

27 Sep 2010

Is access to public information being stonewalled again by Dr. Penny Ballem? First the Mayor saluted communism. Now we can say that in at least one instance Vancouver City Hall is about as transparent as the Politiburo once was....

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Google Lane View?

10 Oct 2009

Beam me up, Scotty! Google's Street View ducks down several Vancouver back alleys When I attended Google's media event this week I heard the company's representative state, "Street View images are only taken from public streets." I took that...

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Google Street View makes Canadian debut in Vancouver

7 Oct 2009

Google Street View launched today in VancouverCityCaucus.com as promised made it down to the Google Street View national launch today at the St. Regis Hotel. First, a wee plug for the venue. As someone who used to stumble around Seymour...

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Vision FAIL on membership list privacy

29 Jul 2009

Vision Vancouver have let their membership down on a basic matter of trustCityCaucus.com was contacted by BC's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) in response to our complaint last Spring against Vision Vancouver. The gist of the original...

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Has the Vision Vancouver board been caught trying to dupe BC's Privacy Commissioner?

23 Jun 2009

Vision responds to our complaint, but questions remain It came in as a terse email response from Vision Vancouver staffer Kurt Heinrich. Hello, Please see the attached response to your complaint. Yours, Kurt Heinrich Vision Vancouver...

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CityCaucus.com files complaint against Vision Vancouver with Privacy Commissioner

1 Jun 2009

Vision betrays the spirit of BC's Privacy Act with their membership form, says CityCaucus.com Just a quick note to our readers to update them on a story we first posted in early April. We learned through our sources that...

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Privacy Commissioner asked to investigate FOI request

14 May 2009

In response to an FOI, Vancouver's top bureaucrat told staff she sent no emails from her City account in December '08 A while back, CityCaucus.com asked for a copy of Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem's emails for the first...

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Jang shills for NDP, some Vision members hopping mad

5 May 2009

Coun. Kerry Jang at NDP rally as posted on Flunging Pictures Flickr page The unscrupulous use of private information continues by Vision Vancouver, who have opted to share their database with "other progressive organizations" (aka BC's NDP party). CityCaucus.com...

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The Negative Option Brotherhood

10 Apr 2009

Are NDP phonebanks calling unsuspecting Vision members thanks to "negative option billing"?The story about Vision members getting pestered by BC NDP phone calls is getting more interesting. Yesterday CityCaucus.com reported that Vision Vancouver members who requested not to be...

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Are Vision membership lists being used for the BC NDP campaign?

9 Apr 2009

Vision Vancouver is using "negative option billing" to fool members into sharing private info CityCaucus.com has received a report that people who signed up as Vision Vancouver members are now being repeatedly called by BC NDP phonebanks. The people...

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BC Privacy Commissioner asked to review FOI requests

5 Apr 2009

Last week we reported that an FOI we placed with the City asking for copies of all outgoing email for the City Manager for the first three weeks came up empty handed. We were advised by the City Clerk's Office...

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