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The privacy commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart created her own list of new year’s resolutions to protect Canadians and Canadian businesses from increasingly dangerous threats to Canadians privacy rights.

Her 2008 list of suggested New Year’s resolutions for businesses in Canada:

1. Protect personal information with strong security. More than 162 million records were compromised by theft or loss in 2007, triple the number of data losses for the previous year, according to a USA Today analysis of breaches in the U.S., Canada and other countries. The disastrous breach involving Winner’s and HomeSense stores is an example of what can go wrong if businesses don’t invest in the latest security.

Click here for her complete list.