February 8, 2024 Officials from four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta — largely offered polite criticism of the country’s proposed artificial intelligence law to Canadian parliamentarians for over an more...
February 7, 2024 Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract personal data from military members’ government-issued computing devices. Parliament’s privacy and more...
February 6, 2024 Canada, the United States, France and the U.K. are among 25 countries, as well as groups representing nations, vowing today to take action on the abuse of commercial spyware by certain governments and law enforcement more...
February 6, 2024 Canada, the United States, France and the U.K. are among 25 countries, as well as groups representing nations, vowing today to take action on the abuse of commercial spyware by certain governments and law enforcement more...
February 6, 2024 Mozilla has unveiled a novel subscription service through Mozilla Monitor, aimed at addressing the widespread concern of personal information being mishandled and sold by data brokers online. This service offers a proactive approach to finding more...
February 2, 2024 For the second meeting in a row, Conservative MPs shortened witnesses’ testimony at committee meetings looking into proposed cybersecurity legislation for overseeing critical infrastructure providers. They did it by bringing forward and forcing debate on more...
January 29, 2024 A US Senator, Ron Wyden, has raised concerns about the National Security Agency (NSA) purchasing Americans' personal data, including their internet browsing habits, from data brokers. In a letter to US Director of National Intelligence more...
January 25, 2024 Data Privacy Week is a period when organizations should reflect on whether they are at least doing the basics, says British Columbia’s privacy czar. “The basic fundamentals” are what privacy pros need to be pondering more...
January 25, 2024 Organizations aren’t making much progress in convincing the public their data is being used responsibly in artificial intelligence applications, a new survey suggests. The report, Cisco Systems’ seventh annual data privacy benchmark study, was released more...
January 22, 2024 Promoting Canadians’ fundamental right to privacy, addressing the privacy impacts of new technologies like artificial intelligence, and championing children’s privacy rights will be the priorities of the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) for more...
