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Search engines, social media platforms to come under Canada’s AI law, says government

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The government of Canada has come through with more information on amendments to its proposed privacy and artificial intelligence legislation, although the exact wording...

Sony’s PlayStation unit hit by MOVEit hack

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The division of Sony Group behind the PlayStation video consoles and games is the latest American-based organization to publicly acknowledge being victimized by the...

Google is covered by Canada’s privacy law, Federal Court of Appeal rules

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A Canadian court has again rejected Google’s claim for an exemption from federal privacy law for its search engine results in case raising the...

Champagne squeezed to produce proposed amendments on privacy, AI bills

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Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s attempt to get parliamentary committee hearings on privacy and AI legislation off to a good start has backfired, with the...

Liberals to add ‘fundamental right to privacy’ to proposed law, but no details yet

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Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne tempted members of a parliamentary committee meeting Tuesday with promises of big amendments to proposed Canadian privacy and AI legislation...

Experts urge changes to proposed Canadian privacy, AI laws before today’s hearing

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In advance of the start of committee hearings on proposed Canadian privacy and artificial intelligence legislation today, 45 groups, experts, and academics released an...

Data on 3.4 million mothers, children stolen from Ontario registry

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Data on 3.4 million Ontario mothers, newborns, and children collected over the past 10 years has been stolen from the MOVEit file transfer server...

Data breach reports up, led by financial sector: Canadian privacy czar report

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Canada’s privacy commissioner received 681 reports of corporate data breaches in its last fiscal year, up six per cent over the previous 12-month period. And...

Musk stirs controversy with move by X to collect biometrics

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Elon Musk has risked losing subscribers with his overhaul of Twitter, right down to renaming the service ‘X.’ But with the platform still surviving, he...

Privacy czars urge websites to block data scraping

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Privacy and information commissioners from 12 jurisdictions including Canada, the U.K., China, and Australia have urged social media companies to do more to prevent...

U.S. division of CIBC apparently sideswiped by MOVEit hack

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Another Canadian bank’s U.S. division has apparently been sideswiped by the MOVEit file transfer server vulnerability. CIBC National Trust of Chicago, part of the Toronto-based...

Google to add more granular security controls to Workspace

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Google will soon improve its automated AI-based data protection capabilities in its Workspace productivity suite for organizations storing data in Google Drive. The enhanced features...

VMware, NVIDIA team up, launch major GenAI initiative at VMware Explore

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The generative AI (GenAI) offensive continued yesterday with VMware Inc. and NVIDIA announcing an expansion of a partnership the two said is designed to...

LinkedIn collaborates with CLEAR to bring free identity verification to Canadian users

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Professional social media platform LinkedIn is teaming up with CLEAR, a secure identity company, to introduce free identity verification services for its users in...

Former Tesla employees stole data of over 75,000 staff, company says

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Over 75,000 current and former employees of car manufacturer Tesla are being notified their personal information was stolen in an insider data breach. Tesla notified...
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