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Pornhub parent company broke privacy law by failing to obtain valid consent for content uploads: OPC

Internet and Governance | 03/01/2024 5:38 pm EST

The Montreal-based company behind Pornhub and other major adult websites broke Canada’s privacy law by sharing intimate content on its platforms without obtaining valid...

CRTC uses forensic tools sparingly, ETHI committee told

Internet and Governance | 02/08/2024 5:37 pm EST

The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the House of Commons Committee on Access to Information, Ethics and Privacy was told Thursday. The panel is continuing its investigation into the use of tools that can extract data from personal devices. ...

ETHI committee hears departments don’t use tools to spy on Canadians

Internet and Governance | 02/06/2024 5:14 pm EST

Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for...

Privacy Commissioner unveils its privacy rights strategic plan 2024-2027

Internet and Governance | 01/22/2024 4:53 pm EST

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) unveiled its Strategic Plan...

INDU hears Canada must not surpass European or Quebec privacy laws

Internet and Governance | 11/24/2023 5:06 pm EST

While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and...

Quebec, E.U., provide templates for AI rules: INDU committee told

Internet and Governance | 11/10/2023 4:19 pm EST

Canada should look to other jurisdictions when it comes to regulating artificial intelligence, the House of Commons Industry Committee was told Thursday. The panel is...

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...

AIDA needs to be scrapped, civil society groups tell committee

Internet and Governance | 11/03/2023 5:14 pm EDT

A quartet of civil society groups appeared before the House of Commons...

Bill C-27 fails to protect rights of Canadians, say civil society groups

Internet and Governance | 11/02/2023 6:39 pm EDT

A coalition of civil society groups are calling on the government to make...

Dufresne recommends changes to Digital Charter Act

Internet and Governance | 09/29/2023 5:45 pm EDT

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is happy the government is open to altering the Digital Charter...

Champagne to introduce amendments to Digital Charter Act

Internet and Governance | 09/27/2023 3:57 pm EDT

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...

Dufresne releases annual privacy report to Parliament

Internet and Governance | 09/19/2023 2:21 pm EDT

The Privacy Commissioner is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could have an impact on...

Class action suit against Facebook can proceed, SCC

Internet and Governance | 08/31/2023 5:03 pm EDT

A class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over age discrimination can move forward, after the...

Canadian Digital Regulators Forum established to address digital policy

Internet and Governance | 06/09/2023 12:25 pm EDT

The Competition Bureau, CRTC, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...

OPC appeals court Facebook decision 

Internet and Governance | 05/15/2023 3:31 pm EDT

The federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner has filed notice that it intends to appeal last month's decision from the Federal Court striking down its challenge to Facebook's data collection practices.  In a notice of appeal filed with the court on Friday, the OPC...

OPC calls for changes to Bill C-27

Internet and Governance | 05/12/2023 12:27 pm EDT

While calling it an "improvement" over both the current existing private-sector privacy law and a "step...

MP plans legislation to protect workers from ‘bossware’

Internet and Governance | 03/07/2023 1:32 pm EST

A Toronto MP is looking to introduce legislation that will cover the use of...

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...

Rogers found to have violated PIPEDA through voiceprint program

telecom | 10/07/2022 3:49 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. violated a customer’s privacy by not deleting...

Pandemic has altered cybersecurity landscape: CIRA survey

telecom | 10/05/2022 4:29 pm EDT

Just over half of IT security professionals feel their organization in more...

Ethics Committee calls for moratorium on use of facial recognition tech

telecom | 10/04/2022 5:07 pm EDT

Parliamentarians on the House of Commons Ethics committee are calling for a...

Privacy watchdogs call for better health data practices 

telecom | 09/21/2022 4:41 pm EDT

Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial privacy commissioners are...

Canadian politicians subject to police surveillance, Ethics committee told

telecom | 08/09/2022 6:32 pm EDT

The Parliamentary committee looking at so-called on device investigation...

RCMP not using Pegasus, Ethics committee upset with lack of information

telecom | 08/08/2022 6:50 pm EDT

The RCMP are not deploying the Pegasus system to conduct surveillance on...

Ethics committee to study RCMP’s use of ‘device investigation tools’

telecom | 07/26/2022 5:42 pm EDT

The House of Commons Ethics committee will hold...

Quebec class-action goes after Google for $50 million

Media | 07/11/2022 5:25 pm EDT

The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google for allegedly failing to obtain "sufficient consent" from individuals who do not require the creation of a Google account to collect their personal information when they use its...

Cell phone border search bill, with higher search threshold, passes Senate

telecom | 06/21/2022 5:24 pm EDT

Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks...

Gov. tables three-headed private sector privacy reform bill

Media | 06/16/2022 5:45 pm EDT

Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...

Government introduces two-part cybersecurity bill

telecom | 06/14/2022 6:45 pm EDT

The government’s new cybersecurity bill, introduced on Tuesday, is taking a two-pronged approach. One...

Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill 

Media | 06/13/2022 5:56 pm EDT

The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back against the government's effort to establish a legally novel threshold for the search of personal digital...

Dufresne pledges to continue Therrien’s work as Privacy Commissioner

Internet and Governance | 06/13/2022 3:54 pm EDT

Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...

Philippe Dufresne appointed Privacy Commissioner

telecom | 06/09/2022 2:19 pm EDT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...

OPC calls for higher threshold on border cell phone search bill

telecom | 06/06/2022 5:01 pm EDT

When it comes to the government's plan to lower the threshold governing the...

OPC needs budget doubled, Therrien says in swan song

telecom | 06/03/2022 5:19 pm EDT

If the government reintroduces its online privacy bill, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will...

Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs

Media | 06/01/2022 5:48 pm EDT

Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...

New legislation needed to cover growing privacy issues: Therrien

Media | 05/26/2022 4:07 pm EDT

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that would cover consent issues, forbid widespread data collection, hold collectors accountable and permit audits by his office.  He laid out these prescriptions in a speech to the International...

Bill S-7 would “weaponize the Customs Act”: Senator

telecom | 05/04/2022 4:06 pm EDT

A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold...

Therrien endorses Ethics report on data dive, makes further recommendations

telecom | 05/04/2022 3:58 pm EDT

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection...

Ethics committee seeks changes to privacy laws, opting out of data collection

telecom | 05/03/2022 5:34 pm EDT

The House of Commons’ Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and...

Privacy watchdogs call for legal framework governing facial recognition

telecom | 05/02/2022 4:24 pm EDT

Along with counterparts from the provinces, the federal privacy watchdog...

Facebook lied in Security Committee: Rodriguez

Media | 04/27/2022 4:28 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort to get companies like Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Twitter Inc. to compensate news outlets for their content, in the wake of comments from a Facebook official to...

OPC not consulted, privacy experts concerned on cell phone border search bill

telecom | 04/13/2022 5:44 pm EDT

A new Government-backed Senate bill now seeks to establish a new framework...

Device search bill will safeguard traveller rights: Gov.

telecom | 03/31/2022 6:15 pm EDT

In what it says is an effort to safeguard travellers' rights when entering...

Put national moratorium on facial recognition for law enforcement, lawyer tells HoC committee

Media | 03/21/2022 5:01 pm EDT

The Canadian government should place a national...

Public and private sector privacy laws need an update: Therrien to Ethics committee 

telecom | 03/03/2022 4:31 pm EST

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has followed...

PHAC data dive legal but not necessarily ethical, Parliamentarians told

telecom | 02/28/2022 5:38 pm EST

The gathering of mobility cellphone data by the Public Health Agency of...

Telus, Blue Dot stress Health Canada never received personal data

telecom | 02/18/2022 5:26 pm EST

It would be impossible for the government to re-identify mobility data of...

Government is using surveillance in data dive, Ethics committee told

telecom | 02/14/2022 4:05 pm EST

A panel of academics reiterated that the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) need to be updated to reflect changes in the...

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...

House adopts Ethics report, Liberals vote against measure

telecom | 02/08/2022 6:38 pm EST

The House of Commons passed an Opposition motion endorsing the Ethics...

Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committee

Media | 02/07/2022 4:43 pm EST

Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...

Duclos and Tam face Ethics committee over data collection, RFP extended again

telecom | 02/03/2022 7:42 pm EST

Data being collected by private companies on behalf of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was de-identified, aggregated and depersonalized, Health Minister Jean-Yves...

Few stakeholders fully support Heritage proposal for online harms: report

Internet and Governance | 02/03/2022 7:12 pm EST

The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...

Tories attack government over PHAC data tracking, Huawei delay

telecom | 02/02/2022 3:38 pm EST

Two Conservative MPs lambasted the Liberal government on Tuesday over data...

Tam refuses to appear before Ethics committee, Duclos to testify on Thursday

telecom | 01/31/2022 4:56 pm EST

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has declined an...

Clearview goes to B.C. Supreme Court to fight privacy order

Media | 01/25/2022 6:11 pm EST

A controversial artificial intelligence and facial recognition software...

Ethics committee votes for data hearing, Health Canada amends RFP

Internet and Governance | 01/13/2022 5:09 pm EST

OTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously  Thursday...

Opposition seeks emergency probe into Health Canada cellphone tracking

telecom | 01/10/2022 5:21 pm EST

A group of four Opposition MPs is asking for an emergency meeting of the...

UPDATED: Conservative MP Brassard demands investigation into cellphone tracking

telecom | 01/07/2022 4:17 pm EST

Conservative MP John Brassard wrote a letter Jan. 5 to Privacy Commissioner...

Court rejects BCCLA request to intervene in OPC v. Facebook court case

Media | 12/10/2021 1:20 pm EST

A Federal Court judge has denied an application by the British Columbia...

ISED, EU, on a mission to tame “wild west” of digital identification technologies 

telecom | 11/22/2021 3:49 pm EST

The federal government is working with the European Commission to examine the political and technological landscape for digital credentials -- individual or organizational...

Panelists call on government to rethink C-11

Media | 11/17/2021 4:59 pm EST

The Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian...

UPDATED: Rayes replaced by John Nater as Heritage shadow minister

Media | 11/09/2021 3:24 pm EST

A Conservative MP who was outspoken on the revised Broadcasting Act, Bill...

RCMP seeks to develop encrypted data solutions for investigation purposes

telecom | 11/04/2021 5:03 pm EDT

The RCMP is looking for an artificial intelligence decryption system that...

Quebec court moves ahead with proposed class-action against Google

Media | 11/02/2021 5:30 pm EDT

A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet Inc.’s Google to dismiss, or alternatively stay, the proceedings of a proposed class action lawsuit...

Nova Scotia Department of Justice failed privacy obligations: watchdog 

telecom | 10/28/2021 5:37 pm EDT

The Nova Scotia provincial privacy watchdog has admonished the province's...

Google seeks to appeal court decision on PIPEDA application 

Media | 09/29/2021 4:47 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...

RCMP looking to expand its digital policing services

telecom | 09/22/2021 6:37 pm EDT

The RCMP is seeking to expand its digital policing services, months after the Office of the Privacy...

Ontario privacy watchdog says province should update privacy law, even without feds

Media | 09/07/2021 5:59 pm EDT

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...

Gov announces plans for Digital Safety Commissioner to combat online harms

Internet and Governance | 07/29/2021 6:11 pm EDT

The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...

Court decides PIPEDA applies to Google search, “right to be forgotten” debate kept alive

Media | 07/09/2021 5:39 pm EDT

A court decision that Canada’s federal private...

Summer recess: your parliament update

Media | 06/25/2021 6:30 pm EDT

With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...

ArriveCAN app usage needs information safeguards: OPC’s Therrien

Media | 06/21/2021 6:00 pm EDT

The ArriveCAN app -- which travellers into Canada must now use to submit COVID-19 related information upon arrival, according to a Monday announcement from the Public Health...

Federal Court judge strikes elements of key-OPC affidavit in Facebook case 

Media | 06/16/2021 5:02 pm EDT

A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...

RCMP violated Privacy Act: OPC; RCMP lied: Angus

Media | 06/10/2021 7:03 pm EDT

Four months after the federal privacy watchdog declared that Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass...

Canadians concerned about job loss, privacy with AI, but hopeful it will make life easier: Report 

telecom | 06/07/2021 6:13 pm EDT

A report by the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) on Canadians’ views on artificial intelligence has found those surveyed are most concerned...

CIRA poll finds Canadians support new privacy laws and cyber attack prevention measures

Media | 05/26/2021 6:19 pm EDT

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority...

OPC finds privacy protections of EdTech company lacking

Media | 05/21/2021 5:17 pm EDT

A Canadian educational technology company used by the York Region District...

Privacy Commish wants power to triage complaints and requests

Media | 05/10/2021 6:42 pm EDT

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner needs to be able to decide what to...

Regulator needed to deal with tech-facilitated gender violence: report

Media | 04/30/2021 12:03 pm EDT

Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for...

LinkedIn disputes privacy breach claims

Media | 04/29/2021 5:19 pm EDT

Professional networking platform LinkedIn will have its applications for a summary trial heard in the...

Experts question effectiveness of online harm regulator

Media | 03/31/2021 6:03 pm EDT

Panelists reflecting Wednesday on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s...

OPC seeks future-proof updates to public sector privacy laws

telecom | 03/25/2021 7:36 pm EDT

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner wants Canada’s yet-to-be revamped...

Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass surveillance: privacy commissioners

Media | 02/03/2021 6:43 pm EST

The facial recognition technology company used by dozens of police departments across the country engaged in illegal mass surveillance before it withdrew itself from the...