On June 15, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released the results of the “2020-21 Survey of Canadians on Privacy-Related Issues.” The goal of the OPC's research was to better understand how Canadians grasped and perceived privacy-related issues as well as what their general awareness...

On June 15, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released the results of the “2020-21 Survey of Canadians on Privacy-Related Issues.” Between November and December 2020, a 14-minute random digit dialing telephone survey was administered to 1,502 Canadian residents 16 years or older. The ...

A bill under consideration by the New York City Council to require online food delivery platforms to share data with establishments is raising objections from the platforms and privacy activists, the New York Amsterdam News reports. Under the proposal, customers’ names, phone numbers, email and deli...

Workers and consumers affected by the recent wave of ransomware attacks in the U.S. have begun filing lawsuits seeking damages from the incidents, The Washington Post reports. Colonial Pipeline and California-based hospital system Scripps Health are among companies being sued over insufficient cyber...

Ars Technica reports Ukranian authorities confiscated unencrypted servers from Canadian virtual private network provider Windscribe. Windscribe acknowledged potential consequences of leaving the servers unsecured, including conditions that would allow a hacker to overtake systems and view web traffi...