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- A good canvass of different challenges that varying types of AI technologies and systems pose for the Canadian legal system.
- From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.
- The intensification of great-power competition, shifting trade relationships, and rapid advances in artificial intelligence have placed the question of AI sovereignty at the forefront of policy debates across advanced democracies.
- Follow this privacy and security guidance to protect users and their personal information when creating AI help applications.
- New provincial guidance from Ontario, BC, and Alberta outlines privacy compliance requirements for AI medical scribe tools in Canadian healthcare.
- Architect of Canada’s Early Military Cyber Capability: The Operational, Intellectual, and Professional Legacy of LCdr (Ret’d) Robert Garigue In the late 1990s, as Western militaries began …
- More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.
- To be trustworthy, the use of generative AI to automate public consultations requires more transparency.
- Nearly two months after age restrictions for under-16s were introduced, we revisit five teenagers on how they’re experiencing – or getting around – the ban
- In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.
- The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
- Destructive payload unleashed on 10-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.
- Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later.
- On May 7, 2025, Kingston Police used a drone to catch distracted drivers in the act. Now, at least two of the 20 tickets issued that day have been withdrawn.
- After months of uncertainty hanging over the RCMP, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the government is committed to keeping Mounties in the business of day-to-day policing across the country — while signalling that improving the federal crimes wing is his priority.
- The project consisted of three phases. The first focused on technical aspects of differential privacy. Researchers were able to conclude that there is an important lack in consistency and consensus on a proper definition for differential privacy. Researchers determined a suitable language and identified opportunities, challenges and limitations when implementing differential privacy within existing frameworks. These challenges were grouped into 3 themes: technical implementation, privacy and utility trade off, and disclosure risks. In the second, exploratory phase researchers conducted several experiments to delve deeper into the intricacies of differential privacy. Phase 2 allowed us to answer fundamental questions about the […]
- T-Mobile is preparing to test a new AI feature that translates live phone calls, without needing specific devices or apps.
- More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed data into a controversial U.S. Border Patrol predictive domestic intelligence program that scans the country’s roadways for suspicious travel patterns. “We ask […]
- Discord will soon force users around the globe to prove their age or access a more limited version of the app, hinting at a future with a more gated web.
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