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

Howard Solomon -
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...

RCMP, FBI part of global take-down of Genesis criminal market

Howard Solomon -
Police from 17 countries, including the FBI and the RCMP, have shut down the Genesis Market, one of the biggest criminal websites for selling...

Canadian privacy commissioner to probe ChatGPT

Howard Solomon -
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

Ashee Pamma -
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...

Okta’s new partner program set to debut on Monday

Paul Barker -
Identity and access management service vendor Okta Inc. is slated to launch a new partner program called Okta Elevate on Monday, which the company...

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

Samira Balsara -
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

Howard Solomon -
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...

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

Howard Solomon -
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

Ashee Pamma -
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

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

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

Howard Solomon -
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

Howard Solomon -
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...
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Ericsson whistleblower hits jackpot with US$279M payout

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Regional head of cloud professional services at Amdocs Americas discusses challenges in clients’ cloud journeys

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Bell, Rogers, Telus, SaskTel ask the CRTC to not extend MVNO policy to IoT/M2M markets

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