Privacy and Information Security news stories affecting Canada and the Fediverse.
Canada’s privacy commissioner says LinkedIn has paused training its artificial intelligence models on data from Canadian users. Philippe Dufresne says his office was informed of the pause by the tech…
Canada needs to update its tools to protect privacy. Privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has advice. http://t.co/dPWF2hJDm3 -> Canada Post makes an appeal… for junk mail? http://t.co/t3aRLzNKlG -> Serious Privacy Flaw…
Hate to nag, but #IAPP Toronto Symposium is offering free WiFi. Encryption free. No WPA2, no WPA… not even WEP? -> PIPEDA is not keeping up with today’s privacy protection…
Microsoft warns of a new Trojan hijacking Facebook accounts. http://t.co/PfNDXBQLgs -> Lookout targets privacy-invading mobile ad networks. http://t.co/B7V31r2LkM -> What if Facebook updated your privacy settings in real life? ->…
The genome hacker: Yaniv Erlich shows how research participants can be identified from ‘anonymous’ DNA. http://trl.ca/62 German court says ‘Nein’ to Apple’s ‘global consent’ on Fanbois’ privacy. http://trl.ca/67 Canadian federal…
SpiderOak unveils Hive, a streamlined file service with ‘100-percent’ privacy. http://t.co/2um4vXA4qP -> Apple’s privacy policy violates German data protection law: Berlin court. http://t.co/cStLRhS0zq -> Facebook pokes Manitoba – Social-media giant…