All posts tagged "privacy"

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  Trudeau outlines Canadian data privacy reforms

  Canada’s privacy commissioner is to be given enhanced powers to establish a new set of online regulations, protecting citizens’ privacy and their rights over the data collected on them by

  • Posted December 26, 2019
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  Campaigners raise alerts over UK health data sharing deals

  Privacy campaigners have criticised a contract between the NHS and Amazon allowing the tech giant to use health information, and deals that give pharmaceutical companies access to patient record data.

  • Posted December 12, 2019
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  Shared Services Canada allocated $200m to enhance IT infrastructure

  The Government of Canada has earmarked C$197m (US$150m) to support the migration of 12 legacy data centres to more modern facilities, and for activities to support the “establishment and adoption

  • Posted December 12, 2019
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  Opinion: the ‘power of where’ – realising the potential of geospatial data

  For millennia maps have guided exploration, supported trade and allowed us to defend our nations and maintain the social fabrics of our societies. They tell the story of human endeavour

  • Posted December 6, 2019
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  UK education department faces sanction over data protection breaches

  The UK Department for Education (DfE) is facing disciplinary action for what a watchdog has called “wide ranging and serious concerns” over data protection breaches. Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s

  • Posted November 27, 2019
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  Canada launches data governance standardisation initiative

  Experts from government, industry and civil society have established a ‘Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative’ with the aim of developing a data standards roadmap. Its work “could be incredibly illuminating,

  • Posted November 18, 2019
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  Businesses to trial Australian government’s AI principles

  Five companies in Australia, including some of the country’s biggest, are to trial eight artificial intelligence (AI) principles developed as part of the government’s AI Ethics Framework. Microsoft, National Australia

  • Posted November 11, 2019
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  US bill proposes personal liability for company executives over data misuse

  US Democrats are championing a bill which, if passed, would make it a criminal offence for company bosses to lie to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about privacy practices. The

  • Posted October 28, 2019
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  EC financial crime chief calls for stronger international collaboration

  Governments must work more closely together to address financial crime, fostering collaboration between dedicated national units and aligning regulatory frameworks, the European Commission’s leading financial crime official said yesterday. Raluca

  • Posted October 3, 2019
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  Irish Data Protection Commission slams Public Services Card

  A ‘public services card’ in Ireland designed to help citizens access services, receive welfare payments and crack down on fraud has been heavily criticised by the country’s data protection authority.

  • Posted August 27, 2019
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