OPC’s privacy breach risk self-assessment tool
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s privacy breach risk self-assessment will guide you through a series of questions that will analyze key details of the breach to assess…
Privacy and Information Security news stories affecting Canada and the Fediverse.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s privacy breach risk self-assessment will guide you through a series of questions that will analyze key details of the breach to assess…
23andMe on Sunday filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. after struggling with the fallout of a data breach and weak demand for its ancestry testing kits that featured in Oprah…
A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for regulations to protect customers’ personal and genetic data in light of biotech company 23andMe’s uncertain future. The genetic…
Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re…
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented “backdoor” that could be leveraged for attacks. The…