In a post for the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cybersecurity Insights blog, University of Vermont's Joseph Near and David Darais break down three threat models to consider when using differential privacy. Threat models are "what kind of adversaries we want the system to prot...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner released a report this week revealing the office’s findings with respect to a survey of organizations’ data breach record-keeping practices. They surveyed seven telecommunication companies (which were not named) to get a sense of whether organizations were keep...

In an op-ed for The Globe and Mail, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law Internet and E-commerce Law Canada Research Chair Michael Geist writes the federal government should recalibrate its digital agenda when it launches its new legislative agenda later this month. Geist warns Canada may face a pro...

The Manitoba Metis Federation is filing a human rights complaint against the Manitoba province alleging discrimination over the collection and sharing of COVID-19 data, CBC News reports. The federation said the province has not created a data-sharing agreement that would notify it when Metis people ...

Yukon Information and Privacy Commissioner Diane McLeod-McKay sided with a Yukon News journalist in keeping an access-to-information inquiry before the Department of Justice open, the Yukon News reports. The inquiry into documents relating to department training of staff on access requests can now c...