The House of Commons Industry Committee is continuing its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act. Wednesday evening it made haste in getting through many facets of the legislation. The panel picked up where it left off, with a sub-amendment from...
The House of Commons industry Committee continued its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act Monday. The dozen-member panel had officials from the...
The House of Commons industry committee continued its clause-by-clause...
The Montreal-based company behind Pornhub and...
The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the...
Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) unveiled its Strategic Plan for 2024-2027, setting a roadmap for trust, innovation, and the protection of fundamental privacy...
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...
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 Canadians’ future privacy dealings. Philippe Dufresne sounded the alarm as he tabled the most recent annual report to Parliament Tuesday. Also on the commissioner’s radar is...
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...
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 consultation on the future of competition policy in Canada urged for greater consultation between various...
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...
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 tools (ODITs) was told that some politicians are being looked at as security risks. Former CSIS agent...
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...
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 Minister François-Philippe Champagne Thursday announced the launch of a suite of privacy reforms aimed at updating Canada's private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and...
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...
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 users of its app had “their movements tracked and recorded every few minutes of every day, even when their app was not open,” according to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) and several...
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...
A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection of mobility data issued by the House of Commons Committee on Ethics committee. The MPs released...
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...
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 up his testimony to the House of Commons Ethics Committee with a detailed letter outlining issues of consent and...
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...
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
The House of Commons passed an Opposition motion endorsing the Ethics Committee recommendation that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) delay a request for proposal (RFP) regarding mobility data tracking. The vote was 173-156 with the governing Liberals voting against....
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...
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 House Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to study the Public Health Agency’s...
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...
The Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian...
MISSISSAUGA -- Ontario’s former privacy commissioner hopes the government's proposed privacy bill -- likely to be reintroduced by the Liberal government after Bill C-11 died...
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...
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 in its effort to combat online harms in five categories -- terrorist content, hate speech,...
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...
Editor’s note: This article contains...
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court battle between Facebook Inc. and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) stemming from a...
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,...
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 Supreme Court of British Columbia related to two separate proposed class-action suits against it over alleged privacy violations. In the first instance, LinkedIn -- which...