November 11, 2022 By June 30, the United States plans to announce more than $42 billion in broadband infrastructure grants to states and territories. The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will be responsible for providing more...
November 2, 2022 What was billed by the Canadian Marketing Association as a keynote speech on the Trudeau government’s proposed private-sector privacy legislation by a senior minister turned into a two-minute welcome to the CMA’s annual privacy conference. more...
November 2, 2022 Thirty-six countries, including Canada, have agreed to work together more closely fight ransomware. At the end of a two-day summit in Washington on Tuesday the countries involved in last year’s Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) agreed more...
November 2, 2022 Shares of Snap and Meta rose 3.4% and 2.2%, respectively, after Brendan Carr, a Federal Communications Commissioner, proposed that the U.S. government ban TikTok. Brendan Carr, one of five FCC commissioners, told the media site more...
November 1, 2022 This afternoon the Trudeau government begins its campaign to convince businesses that there’s nothing to fear in its second attempt to update the federal privacy law covering the private sector. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne will more...
October 25, 2022 As Canada’s public and private sectors launch new digital identity programs, federal, provincial, and territorial regulators say rights to privacy and transparency must be fully respected throughout their design and operation. “The development and implementation more...
October 21, 2022 As Cybersecurity Awareness Month draws to a close, a data breach in Yukon is a reminder there’s a long way to go to make sure employees are cyber-aware in everything they do. A Whitehorse man more...
October 20, 2022 Last summer, the federal government proposed changes to the Telecommunications Act that it says will force Canadian telecom providers to toughen cybersecurity. However, a researcher at a university think tank says the legislation is full more...
October 14, 2022 The carbon-based units are again responsible for a huge breach of security controls at an organization. This time it was an employee of the City of Hamilton, who hit an email ‘send’ button too fast more...
October 12, 2022 Taiwanese Economic Affairs Minister Wang Mei-Hua has said that Taiwan, which produces the vast majority of the world's most advanced computer chips, must remain safe from a Chinese invasion if semiconductor supply chains are to more...
