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Canadian regulator, known as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, may outline new proposals on protecting the privacy of Facebook users in response to complaints by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa.

As the regulator's report found, Facebook provides with the privacy practices information not completely and often confusingly.

As it became known on Thursday, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is to announce new credit card rules. That comes a day after the U.S. Congress ruled out legislation restricting, that Barack Obama is to sign into law on Friday. The legislation requires to provide the information of when and how a credit card company can raise an individual's interest rate, who can receive a card and how much time people are given to pay their bill. 

This week Australia's state government of New South Wales started an education campaign, aiming to fight against "sexting”. The representatives warn these images or sexually explicit text messages can be posted on the Internet or forwarded to others, which can end up in harassment or even sexual assault.

In the year 2006 the United State Congress passed a law to prevent banks and financial institutions from allowing their customers to make deposits at online gambling sites. So, most players have found it difficult to deposit money into their online gambling accounts and since the law was implemented online gambling sites have to use other depositing methods like e-cash options and wire transfers trying to get round the prohibition.