Canada introduces the Online Harms Act, which aims to hold platforms responsible for reducing exposure to damaging content and create a digital safety regulator
RECOMMENDATION Her Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House … Darren Major / CBC News : Long-awaited online harms bill proposes new regulatory bodies, Criminal Code changes Ananya Gairo...
Canada's government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms run by Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia
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Vaccine passport app Portpass, which has 650,000+ registered users across Canada according to the company's CEO, had a security flaw exposing private user info
Sarah Rieger / CBC News : Tweets: @tommy_slick , @sarahcrgr , @sarahcrgr , @bonstewart , @francesca6365 , @dartmouthderek , and @tylerrdawson Tweets: Tom Ross / @tommy_slick : Huge no bueno right her...
Amazon selects New York City and Arlington, Virginia for its new headquarters, receiving $1.5B in performance-based incentives from NY and $573M from VA
I've been thinking about your regret minimization … Sissi Cao / Observer : Amazon's HQ2 in Long Island City Will Make These 5 Residential Nightmares Worse Patrick Sisson / Curbed : Amazon HQ2 subsidie...
Profile of Open Observatory of Network Interference, an organization collecting evidence of internet censorship in 200+ countries with help from ~50K volunteers
Matthew Braga / CBC News : Tweets: @torproject . Thanks: @mattbraga Tweets: The Tor Project / @torproject : As network filtering and censorship technology become easier to obtain and use, data collec...
As US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for Mark Zuckerberg to testify, he and Sheryl Sandberg remain publicly silent on the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Plus, four other questions … Jonathon Gatehouse / CBC News : Facebook CEO Zuckerberg conspicuously absent as data scandal grows Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic : Where Is Mark Zuckerberg? ResearchBu...
University of Toronto study finds China maintains precise data on its citizens, and report by leading Chinese paper says it's up for sale for about $105/person
Saša Petricic / CBC News : Tweets: @aaronwall , @peterwsinger , and @irenethomaidis Tweets: @aaronwall : “a single number that would determine how far you could be trusted to hold a job or travel or ...