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https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/use-of-facial-recognition-in-four-b-c-canadian-tire-stores-broke-privacy-law-report/537315

Use of facial recognition in four B.C. Canadian Tire stores broke privacy law: Report | IT World Canada News Four independently-owned Canadian Tire affiliate stores in British Columbia that installed facial recognition applications for security broke the province's privacy law, B.C.'s information and privacy commissioner has ruled. "The investigation showed that the stores did not adequately notify custome...

'Curat0r'

Google has to pay Quebec man $500,000 for not deleting link to defamatory article | IT World Canada News Google has been ordered to pay a Quebec man $500,000 in moral damages for not removing a link in its search engine to an article wrongly alleging he was convicted of a sexual offence. However, it was the judge's refusal to agree that Google is a mere neutral messenger of information that may be of

Scammers gonna scam...

CIRA’s guide to spotting CRA scams Tax season is here, and criminals are attempting to scam Canadians by posing as the CRA. Learn how to distinguish legitimate communications from the fraudulent.

Trust but verify will not work when trusted suppliers are compromised.
What if your bank's chain if trust is broken?
The 'human firewall ' with knowledge and 'spidey senses' may be the only tool we can rely on here .
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/infected-app-on-employees-pc-led-to-3cx-compromise-report/537253?

Infected app on employee’s PC led to 3CX compromise: Report | IT World Canada News An employee who downloaded an infected application onto their own PC is being blamed for last month's compromise of the 3CX VoIP desktop client. In a report issued today, 3CX said the results of an investigation by Mandiant showed the incident started last year, when a 3CX employee downloaded and in...

Harley find my fone!!!

https://www.peelpolice.ca/Modules/News/index.aspx?newsId=71b923c1-253e-4809-8e06-923a60ba3896

U guess digital bits have a smell?
;-)

Peel Police's First-Ever Electronic Storage Detection Dog Meet Harley, the first dog in Canada trained to seek out digital storage devices through scent and deployed with the Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) to support officers during search warrants. ...

First. If you need your backup from the cloud, bad news.
Second, who has your backups, and possibly the means to decrypt them? Second bad news!

Breaking news: Western Digital hit by data breach, My Cloud backup services are down | IT World Canada News Hard drive and cloud storage provider Western Digital says it has suffered a breach of security controls and data theft. In a news release this morning the California company said that on Mar. 26 it identified a network security incident involving Western Digital’s systems. "In connection with the...

https://channeldailynews.com/news/hackers-using-onenote-instead-of-macros-to-deliver-malware-report/80465?

Hackers using OneNote instead of macros to deliver malware: Report | Channel Daily News For years, threat actors have been hiding macros in emailed Microsoft Office documents as a way to deliver malware. When an unwitting employee clicks on the attachment to see the document, the macro runs silently in the background and leads to an infection. But as Microsoft tightens security around....

Only 'commercial spyware '!
That's nice. RCMP chimes in too.

U.S. departments restricted from use of commercial spyware by Presidential order | IT World Canada News American federal government departments and agencies have been limited from using commercial spyware unless they have approval from the White House. The restriction came in an executive order issued Monday by President Joe Biden, which says the administration believes technology has to be used in ac...

With all of the experience with digital identity loss, we need to tread carefully.

Once government ID goes digital the ability to enact digital damage to a person (including corporate entities) will be increased and more serious.

Would a government be able to 'reverse the damages ' as a credit card company would?

And more importantly, to what end will this bring us?

Inquiring minds 'wanna' know.

Canada is moving faster on digital ID than most think, says ATB Ventures | IT World Canada News Canadian businesses should be working on digital ID solutions in anticipation of the release of federal and provincial initiatives, says an Alberta government innovation lab. "There's a huge appetite from the private sector to leverage government [digital] ID, and as soon as it becomes fully adopted...

Leak? Hack? Data loss in the end...

Breaking News: CFIB confirms data up for sale was stolen from the association | IT World Canada News An association representing Canadian small and medium-sized businesses has acknowledged someone recently stole and put up for sale a database of its prospects. Dan Kelly, chief executive officer of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said Thursday the database is "mostly old information...

Maybe you should too...

https://channeldailynews.com/news/canada-bans-employees-from-using-tiktok-on-federal-devices/80305?

Canada bans employees from using TikTok on federal devices | Channel Daily News Federal employees have been banned from using the Chinese-based TikTok video app on Canadian government-issued computing devices. “Effective Feburary 28, the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices,” Treasury Board president Mona Fortier said in a statement today...

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/02/21/supreme-court-internet-section-230?

Then all advertising has to go?

They made me buy the special Tim Horton donut and now I am diabetic?

The Supreme Court doesn’t want to break the internet with Section 230 case SCOTUS heard a case that could upend the internet, but it looks like the justices probably won’t.