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Inadequate ID authentication blamed for 2020 data thefts at Canada Revenue, ESDC

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The theft of tax and employment records of 48,000 of Canadians four years ago was the fault of poor IT authentication security, says the...

Meta may not bring some products to Canada unless proposed AI law changed, Parliament told

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Officials from four of the biggest tech companies in the world — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta — largely offered polite criticism of the...

Defence department upbraided for not doing PIAs on data extraction tools

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Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract...

More countries to act against misuse of spyware

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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...

Tories again cause testimony on proposed cybersecurity bill to be shortened

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For the second meeting in a row, Conservative MPs shortened witnesses’ testimony at committee meetings looking into proposed cybersecurity legislation for overseeing critical infrastructure...

More work needed to blunt public’s AI privacy concerns: Report

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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,...

Responding to challenges of new tech, children’s rights among federal privacy czar’s priorities

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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...

Data Privacy Week: Get ready for tougher regulation

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In 2023, regulators around the world stiffened or vowed to tighten their data privacy and cybersecurity laws. Expect more of that in 2024. With Data...

American regulator slams data broker for selling mobile location data without consent

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In a warning that American data brokers need to be careful about selling precise geolocation information of mobile phone users, the U.S. Federal Trade...

Ontario healthcare providers now face possible fines for ‘severe’ data privacy violations

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Healthcare providers covered by Ontario’s privacy law have an extra incentive to follow provincial data protection regulations: They now face administrative fines for serious...

Canadian Senator temporarily loses control of X account

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The office of Canadian Senator Amina Gerba has confirmed the Quebec parliamentarian’s account on the X/Twitter social media platform was hacked this week. Walter Calderon,...

Stolen Gold X accounts are increasingly being peddled on dark web, says report

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Cybercrooks have increased the number of new or stolen Gold checkmarked accounts from the X/Twitter platform offered for sale; they are a valuable way...

Ban ransomware payments, Emsisoft urges governments

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A major cybersecurity company is urging governments to forbid all organizations in their countries from paying ransomware gangs, arguing it would at least make...

Scraped images of sexually abused children found in AI training database

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Thousands of images of sexually abused children scraped from the internet are part of a commonly-used database used to train artificial intelligence image generators,...

U.S. drug store chain banned from using facial recognition for five years

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Rite Aid, an American drug store chain, will be banned by a regulator from using facial recognition applications to identify suspicious customers for five...
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