The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada submitted feedback on the Department of Justice's cybercrime protocol that aims to decrease cyberattacks and protect citizens' sensitive data. The protocol states law enforcement agencies should be able to access electronic devices when a cybercrime i...

Nova Scotia Health fired an employee after they allegedly accessed the health information of 2,690 patients while working at St. Martha's Regional Hospital, the Canadian HR Reporter reports. The organization said it is working to strengthen its cybersecurity system and will "not tolerate any unautho...

The European Parliament approved a provisional agreement to create the European Health Data Space, a portal allowing patients to access health data including information located in another member state. Some data will be anonymized or pseudonymized to be used in research. Upon approval from the Coun...

The Court of Justice of the European Union's Advocate General Athanasios Rantos issued a nonbinding opinion in a case regarding personalized advertising based on public statements around sexual orientation. Rantos opined such disclosures make data "manifestly public," but subsequent public consumpti...

European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs approved a proposal for an open banking system that would "keep (EU citizens') financial data safe and efficiently use them to get a better financial service." The framework would allow consumers to "decide how and by whom their financ...