TELUS Fight Against COVID Cited by Privacy Professionals
by Lee Rickwood
To make informed decisions based on real-world information is to use data for good – particularly in a pandemic.
by Lee Rickwood
To make informed decisions based on real-world information is to use data for good – particularly in a pandemic.
by Lee Rickwood
Data ethics will be the new currency as public protection and privacy regulation become the guidelines for digital decision-making in 2021.
by Lee Rickwood
By requiring and then presenting information about an app’s data collection activities, Apple is giving us tools to protect ourselves online.
by Lee Rickwood
Without tough laws to level today’s digital playing field, data privacy and security disputes can pit people against corporations (or their own governments). The legal, financial and administrative muscle the enterprise can muster far outstrips that of most individuals to protect themselves.
by Lee Rickwood
Under the new Act, Canadians could demand that their information on social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter, be permanently deleted. And the country’s privacy commissioner could order them to comply.
They were rescued this time. That makes this particular story of how two men and their vehicle fell through the ice a happy one, but sadly, that’s not always the case. Long a hazard for the residents of Canada’s Far…
Much of today’s technology is designed to deceive and manipulate us — not to protect us, our privacy or our property. Into our smartphones and our social media sites and our connected digital gadgetry, product designers have embedded certain techniques…
by Lee Rickwood
Public consultations by the Ontario government to improve the province’s privacy protection laws are so important – especially now.