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Educating Canadians is key to address cybersecurity threats: CTS panel
Internet and Governance | 11/06/2023 6:32 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Cybersecurity and data privacy were the focus of the Canadian Telecom Summit’s second panel of the day, moderated by insurance company Marsh Canada's...
Regulating TSPs, not suppliers, in cybersecurity bill will be ineffective: Telus exec
telecom | 11/22/2022 3:55 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s vice president and chief security officer said the government’s cybersecurity bill is ineffective in that it attempts to regulate supplier...
PHAC lack of transparency “appalling”, Cavoukian tells Ethics committee
Internet and Governance | 02/11/2022 10:06 am EST
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
CTS panelists hope privacy bill, C-11, ‘dies quickly,’ say Canada is losing ‘military edge’ in digital age
Internet and Governance | 11/15/2021 9:07 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA -- Ontario’s former privacy...
New privacy legislation mixed bag in terms of enforcement, experts say
telecom | 12/18/2020 1:24 pm EST
When the federal government’s proposed new privacy legislation, Bill...
Canada could track COVID-19 through cellphones: experts
telecom | 03/20/2020 3:25 pm EDT
As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location...
As tech gains steam, rules on facial recognition still developing
Media | 07/18/2019 5:38 pm EDT
As facial recognition becomes increasingly accessible to police and other authorities, its use is prompting debate about what rules govern or should constrain the technology...
Experts say there is no road map for a Facebook-OPC court fight
Media | 05/01/2019 4:17 pm EDT
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal...
Google Canada on the defense over Google+, Sidewalk Labs
Media | 10/23/2018 5:57 pm EDT
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...
Lack of cybersecurity framework mind-boggling: Telus exec
telecom | 06/04/2018 8:09 pm EDT
TORONTO — A security executive at Telus Corp. told an industry conference...
House ethics committee backs right to be forgotten in Canada
Media | 03/01/2018 5:23 pm EST
The government should consider including frameworks for a right to erasure...
Privacy, cybersecurity, spectrum key for connected cars: senators
telecom | 01/30/2018 7:17 pm EST
Earmarked spectrum, cybersecurity improvements and increased privacy...
As programmatic ads grow, GDPR could pose a problem: expert
telecom | 01/04/2018 6:16 pm EST
Automatic, data-based advertising has grown significantly over the years...
Privacy improvements in Bill C-59, but some concerns remain: experts
telecom | 06/22/2017 5:16 pm EDT
In their initial impressions of the government’s biggest attempt to...
IMSI catchers difficult to identify: Rogers’ Cawthray
telecom | 06/05/2017 5:12 pm EDT
TORONTO — IMSI catchers present a challenge for telecoms because...
Regulations could help IoT device security, privacy: experts
telecom | 06/01/2017 6:15 pm EDT
GATINEAU, Que. — The advent of 5G networks and the accompanying rise in Internet of Things (IoT) devices will bring different and heightened security and privacy risks, experts told a conference focusing on the next generation of wireless networks.
“I’m really...
Cavoukian launches international privacy organization
Media | 10/17/2016 4:19 pm EDT
Ann Cavoukian, executive director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson University, is founding an international privacy organization, according to a press release Monday. The International Council on...
Privacy commish in contact with Rogers, Yahoo about breach
telecom | 10/06/2016 6:43 pm EDT
The federal privacy commissioner’s office said it has been in touch with Rogers Communications Inc. and Yahoo Inc. regarding the breach of millions of Yahoo email accounts...
Password disclosure law up for ‘public discussion’: Goodale
telecom | 08/17/2016 9:31 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The federal minister of public safety indicated Wednesday a willingness to engage with a freshly passed resolution from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) calling for a...
iPhone encryption issue one to watch: privacy commissioner
telecom | 02/23/2016 11:24 pm EST
OTTAWA — Canadians should be keeping an eye on the FBI's request to gain access to an iPhone connected to the Dec. 2 San Bernadino, Calif., attack, according to Canada's...
Privacy issues around wearables come into view
Media | 06/19/2015 3:17 pm EDT
As wearable technology moves further into the mainstream, thoughts are turning toward how individual privacy can be protected with such devices that track and transmit information as personal as health data and real-time location. Among the projects the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is slated to tackle over the next year is an analysis of fitness-tracker privacy and security. This project “will examine the relationship between the data collection and transmission practices of fitness-tracking devices, the cloud services they integrate with and how third parties may obtain access...
Bill C-13 needs amending: Geist
telecom | 05/29/2014 9:13 pm EDT
Law professor Michael Geist called on the government to strike out parts of the lawful-access provisions in its so-called cyberbullying bill at an appearance on Parliament Hill on Thursday, saying that Bill C-13 should be amended...
Ont. privacy commish blasts federal cyberbullying bill
telecom | 05/28/2014 3:21 pm EDT
Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner on Wednesday criticized the federal government’s so-called cyberbullying bill, C-13, saying it would “invade the privacy of every...