As with most technological developments, there are two sides of the coin. ChatGPT may present businesses with a never-ending pool of opportunities, but the same resource can be exploited to help criminals infiltrate systems more effectively.
Canada Post has been scanning address data from the outside of envelopes it delivers and selling it to third-party mail marketing lists. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPCC) found that this violates a Privacy Act requirement to obtain authorization from individuals before collecting information in this way.
CRA has lost about $190 million in payments made to scammers since 2020, with the highlight item being a $40 million tax refunds scam in which the perpetrator simply logged into an account and requested the astounding sum of money using false T4A income reporting slips.
Already unwelcome in parts of the US, Clearview AI has been shown the door in Canada. The controversial facial recognition company's practices are in violation of the country's privacy laws.
Canada’s House of Commons experienced a data breach from a recent Microsoft vulnerability and leaked the personal information of lawmakers and legislative staff members.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned of hacktivists breaching critical infrastructure via Internet-exposed ICS devices, posing serious safety risks.
Four Canadian privacy agencies are launching an investigation to determine if donut giant Tim Hortons has obtained meaningful user consent for the data collection of personal information on their app.
Canon services suffered an outage caused by Maze ransomware attack affecting internal applications, email servers, Microsoft Teams, and the U.S. website for six days.
A Canvas hack has leaked nearly 280 million records from faculty, staff, and students across 8,809 colleges, online learning platforms, and school districts.
Car-sharing giant Zoomcar has disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 8.4 million people after a threat actor contacted the company claiming to have accessed its data.
