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...
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. ...
Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) unveiled its Strategic Plan...
The government needs to set clear standards of...
While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and...
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...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Cybersecurity and data privacy were the focus of the...
A quartet of civil society groups appeared before the House of Commons...
A coalition of civil society groups are calling on the government to make...
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is happy the government is open to altering the Digital Charter...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
The Privacy Commissioner is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could have an impact on...
A class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over age discrimination can move forward, after the...
The Competition Bureau, CRTC, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...
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...
While calling it an "improvement" over both the current existing private-sector privacy law and a "step...
Stakeholders who submitted responses to the federal government’s...
A Toronto MP is looking to introduce legislation that will cover the use of...
MISSISSAUGA – Criticism of Telus Corp.’s...
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 Communications Inc. violated a customer’s privacy by not deleting...
Just over half of IT security professionals feel their organization in more...
Parliamentarians on the House of Commons Ethics committee are calling for a...
Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial privacy commissioners are...
The CRTC has clarified the rules around the...
The Parliamentary committee looking at so-called on device investigation...
The RCMP are not deploying the Pegasus system to conduct surveillance on...
The House of Commons Ethics committee will hold...
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...
Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
The two ministers responsible for the Act...
The government’s new cybersecurity bill, introduced on Tuesday, is taking a two-pronged approach. One...
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...
Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...
The government's effort to convince...
When it comes to the government's plan to lower the threshold governing the...
If the government reintroduces its online privacy bill, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
Given that the data contained on personal digital...
The government's attempt to create a brand new...
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...
A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection...
The House of Commons’ Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and...
Along with counterparts from the provinces, the federal privacy watchdog...
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...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
A new Government-backed Senate bill now seeks to establish a new framework...
Facial recognition technology (FRT) needs human...
In what it says is an effort to safeguard travellers' rights when entering...
The Canadian government should place a national...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has followed...
The gathering of mobility cellphone data by the Public Health Agency of...
It would be impossible for the government to re-identify mobility data of...
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...
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
The House of Commons passed an Opposition motion endorsing the Ethics...
Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...
A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...
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...
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...
Two Conservative MPs lambasted the Liberal government on Tuesday over data...
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has declined an...
A controversial artificial intelligence and facial recognition software...
OTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously Thursday...
A group of four Opposition MPs is asking for an emergency meeting of the...
Conservative MP John Brassard wrote a letter Jan. 5 to Privacy Commissioner...
A Federal Court judge has denied an application by the British Columbia...
The federal government is working with the European Commission to examine the political and technological landscape for digital credentials -- individual or organizational...
The Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian...
MISSISSAUGA -- Ontario’s former privacy...
A Conservative MP who was outspoken on the revised Broadcasting Act, Bill...
The RCMP is looking for an artificial intelligence decryption system that...
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...
The Nova Scotia provincial privacy watchdog has admonished the province's...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner will be...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...
The RCMP is seeking to expand its digital policing services, months after the Office of the Privacy...
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...
The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...
A court decision that Canada’s federal private...
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...
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...
Editor’s note: This article contains...
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...
Canada has laws that would hold companies...
Four months after the federal privacy watchdog declared that Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass...
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...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority...
A Canadian educational technology company used by the York Region District...
Following an analysis of Bill C-11, the federal...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner needs to be able to decide what to...
Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for...
Professional networking platform LinkedIn will have its applications for a summary trial heard in the...
Panelists reflecting Wednesday on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner wants Canada’s yet-to-be revamped...
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...