privacy
5 unwritten rules of customer confidentiality
You can gain tremendous trust with customers by simply following these five unwritten rules of customer confidentiality. Ignore them at your peril.
How to stand out from your online competition
How is a real estate salesperson supposed to stand out from her competition online? It’s a question that webmasters and marketing assistants hear often and struggle to answer.
Christopher Alexander: Will Zillow’s arrival in Canada disrupt the real estate industry? [Updated]
U.S. real estate listing website Zillow has arrived north of the border. Could this be the start of the For Sale By Owner (FSBO) era? It’s unlikely.
Facebook and protecting your online privacy
Despite our fiercest battle cries to #deletefacebook, most of us won’t. Here are three things you can do on Facebook to help protect your privacy online.
Broker files privacy complaint against Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission
Broker Martina Robinson filed the complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, alleging that her personal information was disclosed to the Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission without her consent
Protecting purchase history data: What would virtual office websites do with it?
The issue of permitting virtual office websites (VOWs) to publicly display sold data – a property’s purchase history – is still before the courts. Just what would VOWs do with the disputed data if it was made public?
Privacy rights at heart of competition tribunal appeal, says TREB
TREB is once again arguing that clients’ privacy rights will be breached if certain data is exposed on the Internet on virtual office websites (VOWs).
Judge cites privacy in issuing stay order of TREB decision
A Federal Court of Appeal judge says that TREB “has raised at least one serious issue with respect to the possibility that the tribunal’s order failed to take adequate consideration of property owners’ privacy rights.”
Privacy and competition
Make no mistake about this whole mess, the issue is about privacy. The private information of homeowners related to the most important thing that is in their possession, their home.
