Privacy and Information Security news stories affecting Canada and the Fediverse.
A Vancouver Island man pleaded guilty in what police are calling the “most prolific case of voyeurism ever prosecuted in Canada.” The Saanich Police Department said investigators identified at least…
“What kind of doctor was dr. pepper,” Utah real estate agent Kouri Richins once asked a search engine. (Sadly, there was no actual Dr. Pepper.) But it was Richins’ less…
Federal privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a special report to Parliament on Thursday that there had been more than 42,000 confirmed individual data breaches at the Canada Revenue Agency…
Commissioners from four of Canada’s privacy watchdogs have found that OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws while developing and training its early models of ChatGPT. Philippe Dufresne, Canada’s privacy commissioner, was…