Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has issued a statement to celebrate the Canada Data Privacy Week with the concrete example of the effectiveness of its office operations. The Commissioner detailed that Home Depot was transferring data traffic information of its customers to Meta, without the consent of the customers. The Commissioner had investigated...
The federal government of Canada has presented a bill by which it would compel companies in the energy, telecommunications, finance, and transportation sectors to either increase their cybersecurity systems or face expensive penalties in case of a breach. The bill is entitled Act Respecting Cyber Security and was presented by Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne...
The Canadian Arnprior Regional Health announced that it suffered a cyber attack compromising data dating back since 1996. The center has published the list of medical data that might have been impacted, while investigation is still ongoing. The impacted information includes names, dates of birth, contact information, health card numbers, dates of hospital visits including...
The Canadian media outlet CP24 informs that it has received a news from IKEA according to which it would have notified the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada of a data breach involving the personal information of nearly 100k customers. Find more on CP24 here.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada adopted a joint statement underlining that the heads of Canada’s privacy protection authorities recommend new laws to delineate when the use of facial recognition by police is acceptable. The Facial recognition has emerged as a tool of significant interest for police agencies in Canada. Used responsibly and...