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Data Privacy Week: Consumers, companies differ on privacy priorities, says study

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Consumers and business leaders have different priorities when it comes to data privacy, according to recent studies by Cisco Systems. The contrast was revealed in...

B.C. college says info of students, employees at risk following cyber attack

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A British Columbia community college says personal information of some students and employees may have been copied by a cyber attacker earlier this month. Okanagan...

Many boards don’t see privacy as a priority: Survey

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Many boards don’t make put privacy as one of their organization’s priorities, a survey of professionals suggests. According to the annual state of privacy survey...

Home Depot Canada criticized by privacy commissioner

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The Canadian division of Home Depot didn’t get customers’ consent before sharing details of customers’ e-receipts – including encoded email addresses and in-store purchase...

Compromised API led to data theft of 37 million T-Mobile customers

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A hacker leveraged an Application Programming Interface (API) to steal the personal information of 37 million customers over two months, undetected, from American cellular...

Privacy by Design to become an ISO standard next month

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Fourteen years after being introduced by a Canadian privacy commissioner, Privacy by Design (PbD) is about to become an international privacy standard for the...

Stolen data on 200 million Twitter users now being given away

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Twitter account information on 200 million users, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Donald Trump Jr., is now available for free on a hacker...

Meta to pay US$725 to U.S. Facebook users over Cambridge Analytica scandal

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The fallout from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to follow Facebook and its parent, Meta Platforms. Reuters reports that  Meta has agreed to pay...

Ad-free search platform launches in Canada

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Search engine Neeva launches today in Canada to provide users with a tracking-free and ad-free alternative to search platform Google. Following its launch in the...

LastPass admits new hack, some customer data exposed

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Information that hackers got from an August hack of password management provider LastPass was used to compromise the company again, its CEO has acknowledged. “We...

Proposed privacy law lets personal data be ‘exploited’ by Canadian firms: Citizen Lab

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Ottawa’s second attempt at overhauling federal legislation regulating how businesses collect and use personal data of Canadians still favours the private-sector, says a leading...

Google to pay US$391 million for misleading Android users on location tracking

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Google has agreed to pay US$391.5 million and to be more upfront with consumers about its privacy and data capture practices in a settlement...

Privacy rights must be respected in digital ID systems, say Canadian regulators

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As Canada’s public and private sectors launch new digital identity programs, federal, provincial, and territorial regulators say rights to privacy and transparency must be...

Hamilton employee mistakenly sends email blast with all names and addresses visible

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The carbon-based units are again responsible for a huge breach of security controls at an organization. This time it was an employee of the City...

Study reveals consumers have conflicting beliefs about digital privacy protection

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New research from GetApp shows that Canadian consumers have conflicting beliefs about who should bear the responsibility for protecting digital privacy, with 41 per...
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