Ottawa announced it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices in response to privacy and security concerns. The federal government said it will also block the Chinese-owned social media app from being downloaded on official devices in the future. The new rule follows the app鈥檚 intense scrutiny in the United States and also concerns of covert Chinese influence on Canadian affairs. ()听
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Published on: 1 Mar 2023
The federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions of unsuspecting travellers at Toronto鈥檚 Pearson International Airport in 2016. The six-month initiative, meant to pick out people the Canada Border Services Agency suspected might try to enter the country using fake identification, is detailed in a document obtained by The Globe and Mail through a freedom of information request. The project is the largest known government deployment of the technology in Canada to date.
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Published on: 22 Jul 2021
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has named China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea鈥檚 state-sponsored cyber activity as posing the 鈥済reatest strategic threats鈥� to Canada鈥檚 critical infrastructure, intellectual property, and political events like elections.
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Published on: 20 Nov 2020
Cyber security breaches at , , , and underscore t
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Published on: 18 Dec 2019
Google鈥檚 AI fest offers an ominous glimpse of the robot future: Machines fooling humans into thinking they are people raise obvious ethical concerns (source: )
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Published on: 10 May 2018
To support six research projects in fields from neuroscience to food safety and Arctic ecosystems
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Published on: 15 Apr 2016
"Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company鈥檚 chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December鈥檚 terrorist attacks in San Bernardino." ()
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Published on: 17 Feb 2016
六合彩开奖结果 School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Benjamin Fung has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC Tier 2) in Data Mining for Cybersecurity. Dr. Fung's research program aims to enhance the data sharing and data mining capabilities for healthcare and cyber security professionals.
CRC Tier 2 chairs are awarded to exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. For each Tier 2 Chair, the university receives $100,000 annually for five years.
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Published on: 12 Feb 2016
