January 24, 2023 Here’s a quick primer on Canada’s data privacy laws for commercial firms: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to firms that collect personally identifiable information, unless there are provincial statutes. Some more...
January 23, 2023 A hacker leveraged an Application Programming Interface (API) to steal the personal information of 37 million customers over two months, undetected, from American cellular carrier T-Mobile. The acknowledgment by the carrier in a filing Thursday more...
January 13, 2023 Fourteen years after being introduced by a Canadian privacy commissioner, Privacy by Design (PbD) is about to become an international privacy standard for the protection of consumer products and services. On Feb. 8, the International more...
January 9, 2023 Meta Platforms has been fined €390 million (approximately $414 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for its handling of user data for serving personalized ads. The fines mark the end of two lengthy more...
January 9, 2023 As the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, faces uncertainty and sanctions from the American government, 2023 will be critical. America has been working hard to clip TikTok's wings since last year. America has taken numerous more...
January 5, 2023 Twitter account information on 200 million users, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Donald Trump Jr., is now available for free on a hacker forum, according to security researchers. The researchers at Privacy Affairs, a more...
December 27, 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 2, 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 30, 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...
