Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their dispute over the Online News Act, with the tech giant agreeing to annually compensate news organizations $100 million and continue sharing Canadian news content on its platforms. Heritage minister...
Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the Online News Act, shedding some light on what platforms and news organizations can expect from the...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
The committee studying the Online News Act...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against...
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that it has not been called to testify about the Online News Act that it is considering halting the...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
A Federal Court judge has denied an application by the British Columbia...
Canada’s Competition Bureau is joining with 10 other nations for a Monday...
Two new faces will be stepping into critic roles...
NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the incoming Liberal cabinet to “rethink their badly-flawed handling of the big tech file,” after whistleblower Frances Haugen released...
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier...
A Quebec judge has ruled that Facebook Inc. can bring forward evidence the company believes will assist it in challenging a proposed class-action lawsuit. Facebook has been accused by an...
During a hearing on Facebook, Inc.’s relationship with the federal government Monday, multiple members...
The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from being shared on its platform within Australia, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault denounced the...
The Bloc Québécois is pushing the federal government to take “urgent” action to support local media by imposing new taxes on web giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In the House of Commons...
On the second day of a preliminary hearing into a dispute between Facebook and the federal privacy watchdog Thursday, the social media giant presented arguments to a Federal Court judge that the court...
The motto of Facebook Inc. is, famously, "move fast and break things." ...
The federal government plans to begin imposing sales taxes on foreign digital services on July 1, 2021...
Facebook Inc. is asking a judge to throw out significant chunks of an...
Independent producers will be able to access a $50 million insurance...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...
Facebook Inc. must pay a $9 million penalty to the Competition Bureau after making "false or misleading claims" about the privacy of personal information on the main Facebook platform and its Messenger app, according to a Tuesday release from the Competition Bureau. The social media giant will also pay $500,000 to the bureau for the cost of the investigation, which took place between 2012 and 2018. The investigation found that despite telling users they could control who had access to...
Facebook Inc.'s request that Federal Court throw out a report from the...
The Office the Privacy Commissioner has filed a much-anticipated notice of application in Federal Court...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters...
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia...
As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth of tax credits it pledged to news media, the Quebec government has unveiled a newspaper assistance...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
OTTAWA — The concept of privacy should factor more prominently in competition law when it comes to regulating social media and big data, a conference heard on Thursday. “Users need to be able...
A consortium of data stewards launched an informal network last week that looks to promote the anonymization of personal information in Canada in the wake of data privacy concerns sweeping the...
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner plans to file in Federal...
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday it is...
Facebook Inc. will solicit the advice of an advisory group as part of its effort to ensure its ad registry captures key issues leading to the 2019 federal election. The group of five will include former NDP deputy leader Megan Leslie, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Ray Novak, University of Manitoba’s Ry Moran, McGill University’s Antonia Maioni, and University of Victoria professor David Zussman, it said in a Monday press release. The company announced in the release details of its “Ad Library,” which intends to fulfill a legal requirement under elections...
Despite heightened interest in the impact of social media on Canadian elections, Facebook Inc. said it has not heard of any Canadian institutions that have applied to view the social media giant’s...
OTTAWA -- Democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said the government...
While online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...
OTTAWA — Canada’s elections commissioner said his office has nurtured a good relationship with employees of the tech giants and doesn’t expect that to deteriorate going...
OTTAWA — The head of the Conservative Party’s 2019 national election...
The French government will work with Facebook Inc. on a new initiative to...
Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a joint-request by...
MPs in Canada and the United Kingdom have stepped up their efforts to get the chance to grill Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a parliamentary committee hearing. The chairs of two...
Almost 50 million Facebook user accounts have been affected after hackers...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he plans to...
Facebook Inc. will introduce a pilot project aimed at securing election campaigns for the United States midterm elections this fall. The company said in a blog post that past elections have shown that candidates, politicians...
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs collectively...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it handles user privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal – this time,...
Facebook Inc. is adding verification of photos and videos to its fact-checking of content on its social...
As politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...
Facebook Inc. filed a suit against BlackBerry Ltd. Tuesday accusing the device-maker of allegedly infringing on six of its patents, including voice messaging technology and security components, following BlackBerry’s suit...
According to a recent report from the CBC/Radio-Canada Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project, 72 per cent of English-speaking Canadians have used a social networking service in the past month, with just over half of those using...
Facebook Inc.’s social media service will list lower on the newsfeed news items — and notify Canadians who share them — which are determined to be untrue, according to a release on Wednesday. This coincides with the launch of a fact-checking effort being led by...
A European Union committee has approved a controversial copyright directive that critics say could interfere with the sharing of online content. At issue are two articles under the directive. The...
Following nine public meetings that began in March, the House committee...
TORONTO — A security executive at Telus Corp. told an industry conference...
OTTAWA — Whistleblower and data scientist Christopher Wylie testified at...
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
As stories about security and personal data breaches make the headlines,...
OTTAWA — Two sides of the data-use debate squared off at the House ethics...
OTTAWA — There is no reason for political parties to be using social...
OTTAWA — The chairman of the Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday that he will look to hold hearings on the possibility of taxing advertising on non-Canadian internet platforms. “What I will undertake is that we will...talk about hearings that...
Advertisers on Facebook Inc. should expect changes — like less reliance on third-party data and better consent tools — to the platform after the privacy breach revelations this spring, says...
Facebook Inc. will add itself to the federal lobbyist registry, the company said after its head of public...
OTTAWA — Testimony from Facebook Inc. representatives at the House ethics...
Facebook Inc.’s attempt to reach out to members of the Parliamentary...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics committee Tuesday that the data of the roughly 620,000 Canadians used by Cambridge Analytica could theoretically be used to influence a Canadian election, and called for more oversight of data use by...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will participate in an investigation into the activities of AggregateIQ Data Services Ltd. according to a post on its website on Thursday....
Facebook Inc. released its estimates of how many people were affected by...
The federal government has announced that mandatory breach notification rules found in the 2015 Digital Privacy Act will come into force Nov. 1 this year, according to an order-in-council dated March 26. As originally reported...
Facebook Inc. announced a series of new measures to harden the platform against misinformation Thursday, saying it has needed to ban a Macedonia-based ring spreading fake news during the late 2017 Alabama senate race, and will now...
Over the last month, the number of people who hold an unfavourable public...
An Ontario lawmaker is pushing for consent-based privacy legislation focused on governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the private sector. On Wednesday, the Personal Information Protection Act...
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan couldn’t tell MPs or reporters...
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used...
OTTAWA — Treating social media companies, such as Facebook Inc., as broadcasters could help keep them in line with election regulations and curb unwanted influences resulting from unbalanced perspectives, a law professor at the University of Ottawa argued Wednesday....
Citing its early developments in timestamp interfaces, encryption...
Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information...
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...
Canadian programmatic digital ad spending will account for two-thirds of display advertising by 2018, says a recent report from market research company eMarketer Inc. released on Tuesday. Programmatic ads are purchased and placed using automated technology and often rely on user data to optimize the level of impressions, according to analysts at eMarketer. They are quickly becoming the most popular way for companies to connect with potential customers as they’ve been embraced by large internet companies like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, says eMarketer. This is evident in...
In a release on Monday, the Quebec government announced $36.4 million over five years in new investments supporting the province’s print media moving to digital. Announcing the funding over a Facebook Inc. livestream, Quebec...
Facebook Inc. has named Garrick Tiplady its new managing director of Facebook Canada and Instagram...
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has released an analysis of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), but cautions that there are still challenges for the adoption of practises...
Canada will be the testbed for Facebook Inc.’s new advertising transparency policies, according to a...
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
Facebook Inc. is testing a feature to provide context to the many news reports often shared through the...
Facebook Inc. will cooperate with the U.S. Congress on its investigation into Russian meddling in the...
Despite the abundance of social media platforms in existence, Facebook Inc.’s popularity among anglophone Canadians stands head and shoulders above other options, according to a new Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report. MTM, a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, reported...