Privacy

Reddit sells user data to undisclosed AI company

An AI company has reportedly struck a $60 million annual deal with Reddit to use the platform's user content for training its AI models....

Inadaquate ID authentication blamed for 2020 data thefts at Canada Revenue, ESDC

Data of 48,000 Canadians stolen, says federal privacy commissioner -- and attackers were also able to fraudulently get COVID-19 and unemployment insuranc

Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, Feb. 9, 2024

This episode features discussion on a deepfake video conference call that tricked an employee into wiring US$25 million to crooks, why the U.S. Federal Trade Commission called the cybersecurity of a company "shoddy," 

Cyber Security Today, Feb. 9, 2024 – A record US$1 billion paid to ransomware gangs last year, and more

This episode reports on ransomware payments, a US$10 million bounty on a ransomware gang

Meta may not bring some products to Canada unless proposed AI law changed, Parliament told

Officials from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta offered polite criticism of AIDA. then Meta

Meta may not bring some products to Canada unless proposed AI law changed, Parliament told

Officials from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta offered polite criticism of AIDA. then Meta

Defence department upbraided for not doing PIAs on data extraction tools

Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract personal data from military members’ government-issued computing devices. Parliament’s privacy and ethics committee has been looking into a news report that 13 federal departments — including defence — have access to

More countries to act against misuse of spyware

Countries vow to create guidelines to ensure spyware is used r

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