June 20, 2023 Parliament must limit government powers over the private sector in the proposed Canadian cybersecurity legislation, say several civil rights groups, arguing the current version risks eroding civil liberties, privacy, and democratic freedoms. The call came more...
June 9, 2023 Yintao Yu, a former executive at ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has made serious allegations against the ruling Communist Party that members of the party utilized TikTok's user data to identify and locate protesters more...
June 5, 2023 The United States Air Force has denied press reports that an AI-controlled drone purposely harmed its pilot during a simulation. In an official statement, the U.S. Air Force stated that no such exercise involving AI more...
May 31, 2023 Organizations that want to sell software and hardware to the Canadian defence department will soon have to meet requirements of a new cyber security certification program. Defence Minister Anita Anand said today the government is more...
May 31, 2023 The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has been chastised for failing to disclose the real cost of the ArriveCan app. As a consequence, the agency received the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in more...
May 16, 2023 How far the United States should go to regulate artificial intelligence systems will be at the heart of a U.S. government hearing today featuring the testimony of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose firm is behind more...
May 11, 2023 Canada’s privacy commissioner says the government’s proposals to modernize Canada’s federal private sector privacy law are “a step in the right direction,” but must go further to protect fundamental privacy rights. The statement from Privacy more...
May 8, 2023 Two years after the international Ransomware Task Force issued 48 recommendations for governments, the technology industry, and civil society to deter and disrupt the ransomware model, there are mixed signs of success. The FBI scored more...
May 1, 2023 ChatGPT has been reinstated in Italy following the fulfilment of Garante, Italy's data protection agency, requirements ahead of the April 30, 2023, compliance date. OpenAI told customers that it filters and eliminates sensitive material such more...
April 25, 2023 The U.S. government needs the private sector to work with it to blunt cyber attacks, a senior justice department official told infosec pros at RSA Conference 2023. “We want to work hand in glove with more...
