Canadian Security News

If you’re not familiar with Ever it is, or we should say, was, a cloud storage app for photos. According to Ever, the reason behind their closing down is increased competition from Google and Apple, who tout their own, more robust cloud...

Given the recent Coronavirus pandemic, everything has started to move to the digital world, and we’re finding ourselves reliant on policies that aren’t ready to handle this new weight. A perfect example is the federal Personal Information...

Multiple organizations and experts striving to protect human rights, civil liberties and privacy are calling on the federal government to ban the use of facial recognition technology by intelligence agencies and federal law enforcement. At the...

The federal government has finally launched its COVID-19 exposure app after delays to make it user-friendly. Merely eight days after it went into beta testing, residents of Ontario are now able to voluntarily download the COVID Alert app...

The questionable ways in which political parties collect data could endanger the democratic process and have harmful consequences for Canadian democracy. In a 2019 investigation report by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner...

A few days ago on the 21st of July, The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a letter aimed at video teleconferencing (VTC) providers to set expectations for privacy and security of users. The thinking is that with the recent...

After pressure over its questionable practices, Clearview AI has decided to allow Canadians to opt-out of its facial recognition database, but there's a catch. If you're a Canadian resident who wishes to remove yourself from the apps search...

All around the world, the COVID-19 Pandemic has drawn in an army of scientific advisers -doctors, epidemiologists, and health strategists- to help combat both its spread and effects. In this, Canada is no exception, but whereas most nations...

The right to be left alone is often treated as one of the most fundamental rights of mankind, but according to the company Clearview AI, this right doesn’t extend to your image- well, not if you happen to be Canadian it doesn’t. The Company,...

The stories about faults in Zooms data privacy have been coming thick and fast these past few months, with Zoom-bombed classes, threats to children’s privacy, and even governments banning the platform altogether. The COVID-19 lockdowns...