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Canadian experts urge Parliament to pass AI law fast

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Canada should pass the Liberal government’s proposed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence in a few weeks, 75 AI researchers and startups say in an...

Commercial spyware-maker QuaDream to close, say reports

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An Israel-based commercial spyware company whose iPhone hacking technology is allegedly used by governments to compromise the phones of political opponents and reporters is...

Federal court backs Facebook in fight with Canada’s privacy commissioner

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The federal privacy commissioner’s attempt to have Facebook take responsibility for the Cambridge Analytical scandal under Canadian privacy law has been rejected by a...

Spend to improve data protection and customer trust, urges BC privacy commissioner

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Companies hoping to save money by not investing in data protection technologies don’t get much sympathy from British Columbia’s information and privacy commissioner. “It’s one...

Canadian privacy commissioner to probe ChatGPT

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ChatGPT is being investigated by Canada’s Privacy Commissioner for possibly using personal information without permission. “AI technology and its effects on privacy is a priority...

Law enforcement scrambling to keep us safe amid rapidly evolving technologies : CCA report

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Canadians are now ‘digital-by-default’, accessing their work and essential services daily, online. But this has led the way for malicious actors to increasingly target...

U.S. departments restricted from use of commercial spyware by Presidential order

Howard Solomon -
American federal government departments and agencies have been limited from using commercial spyware unless they have approval from the White House. The restriction came in...

ABC Life Literacy Canada announces new digital literacy resources to combat online fraud

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ABC Life Literacy Canada is releasing new resources which aim to educate Canadians on online fraud.  In 2022, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre received fraud and...

Parliamentary committee’s demand for third party emails from Google, Meta is wrong: Business group

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A small change in a parliamentary committee’s official demand for corporate messages held by Facebook parent Meta hasn’t altered the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s...

Coffee Briefing Mar. 7 – Roger’s Cybersecure Catalyst launches new program; DMZ Demo Day; New roaming plans for telecom companies

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Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed...

Senior LastPass developer’s home computer hacked as part of last year’s data theft; decryption keys stolen

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Password management provider LastPass has admitted that part of last August’s breach of security controls included hackers compromising the home computer of one of...

Canada bans employees from using TikTok on federal devices

Howard Solomon -
Federal employees have been banned from using the Chinese-based TikTok video app on Canadian government-issued computing devices. “Effective Feburary 28, the TikTok application will be...

Breaking news: Canadian privacy commissioners investigating TikTok

Howard Solomon -
Canada’s federal privacy commissioner, along with three provincial privacy commissioners, has started an investigation into TikTok, examining how the video-streaming platform collects the personal...

Zoho launches new unified communications platform

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Today, global technology company Zoho unveiled its unified communications platform, Trident, and added new capabilities to its virtual office platform, Zoho Workplace. Trident seeks to...

Data Privacy Week: Build privacy and usability into products, says Telus exec

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Data Privacy Week should be a time when IT and business leaders discuss how to support the inclusion of privacy engineering in their products,...
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