Feds put $500K toward privacy program for driverless cars

telecom | 06/25/2018 4:06 pm EDT

The federal government is infusing the University of Alberta with $500,000 for a pilot on enhanced privacy for connected and autonomous car communications. The government’s goal is to “help address technical, policy and regulatory issues related” to the technology, a Monday press release said. The funding is part of the government’s $2.9-million program called Advance Connectivity and Automation in the Transportation System, which looks to help jurisdictions across the country prepare for the next generation of transportation. That funding includes support for research,...

BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns

Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST

A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift funding away from the Broadcast Participation Fund (BPF), the organization that helps bring consumer interests in front of the commission has filed its first registrations to lobby the regulator and the...