December 23, 2022 The fallout from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to follow Facebook and its parent, Meta Platforms. Reuters reports that Meta has agreed to pay US$725 million to resolve a U.S. class-action lawsuit accusing Facebook more...
December 1, 2022 Information that hackers got from an August hack of password management provider LastPass was used to compromise the company again, its CEO has acknowledged. “We have determined that an unauthorized party, using information obtained in more...
December 1, 2022 The ability of victims of data theft in Ontario to sue organizations for failing to protect their information under a fledgling privacy right has been almost eliminated by a ruling of the province’s appeal court. more...
November 29, 2022 Another fine has visited tech giant Meta, as Ireland's Data Protection Commission slammed the company with a €265 million fine (about $276 million) after an April 2021 data leak exposed the information of more than more...
November 28, 2022 Utilizing API security flaws fixed in January, over 5.4 million Twitter user records containing non-public information were stolen through an internal bug and leaked online on a hacker forum. Last July, malicious actors began selling more...
November 25, 2022 Most data analytics staff worry about number crunching and outputs. But a lawyer has warned IT pros that proposed legislation before Parliament should also be on their minds. “Understand them and understand what your company more...
November 22, 2022 Ottawa’s second attempt at overhauling federal legislation regulating how businesses collect and use personal data of Canadians still favours the private-sector, says a leading technology and human rights group. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab more...
November 15, 2022 Google has agreed to pay US$391.5 million and to be more upfront with consumers about its privacy and data capture practices in a settlement with 40 U.S. states. The deal, announced Monday, comes after the 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 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...
