December 5, 2023 NVIDIA has received a warning from U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo regarding its efforts to redesign chips for the Chinese market in response to recent U.S. export restrictions on advanced chips. The company has been more...
December 5, 2023 Canada must quickly pass legislation to oversee social media platforms, says an expert in cybersecurity law, including appointing an independent regulator who can levy “hefty” financial penalties. “It is time to act now,” Emily Laidlaw, more...
November 28, 2023 Social media platforms should be forced by the Canadian government to toughen their privacy practices, an expert told a parliamentary committee looking into illicit data harvesting by apps like China-based TikTok for foreign governments on more...
November 23, 2023 Canada’s privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into the theft of 24 years of data of federal employees from two government-contracted relocation firms. As we reported earlier this week, the Treasury Board said data as more...
November 22, 2023 Ottawa should consider squeezing the provinces to enact similar federal, provincial and territorial privacy laws across Canada, says a new paper from the C.D. Howe Institute, which argues commonality will benefit businesses and consumers. “The more...
November 20, 2023 Ottawa now says the data theft at companies that handle moving arrangements of federal staff includes that of members of the Canadian Armed Forces, current and former federal employees, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel more...
November 15, 2023 Toronto’s public library system has acknowledged that the ransomware gang that hit it last month stole personally identifiable data of employees. “At this point in our investigation we believe current and former staff employed by more...
November 15, 2023 Six days after being asked for comment, the government of Ontario is still considering a public response to recent cyber attacks on hospitals in the province. Last week, an IT World Canada reporter asked for more...
November 2, 2023 Canada has announced a ban on WeChat, a Chinese messaging and social media app, on government devices. The app is popular in China and among Chinese diaspora communities around the world, but Western governments have more...
October 30, 2023 U.S. president Joe Biden today issued an Executive Order establishing new standards for the use of artificial intelligence applications in the U.S. federal government, government-funded programs and critical infrastructure sectors. The goal, the White House more...
