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The federal privacy watchdog and three of his provincial counterparts will jointly investigate Canadian use of facial-recognition technology supplied by U.S. firm Clearview AI.

The main federal political parties have developed and published privacy policies, as required by a new law, but none has adopted the stringent measures Canada's privacy commissioner and chief electoral officer say are necessary to protect the personal information of voters.

Equifax contravened Canada's privacy law and fell short of its obligations to Canadians during and after a global data breach in 2017, federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.

More than one in five Canadian companies say they were hit by a cyberattack last year, with businesses spending $14 billion on cybersecurity as they confront greater risks in the digital world, according to a new Statistics Canada survey.

A man who says a Google search reveals outdated and highly personal information about him will be the test case that helps a judge decide whether the search engine must remove the links from its results.

The B.C. Green Party says it does not believe its members' personal information was stolen, after the party worked with a Victoria-based tech company that's mired in an international privacy scandal.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. isn't providing details as to why some Canadians have been singled out with requests to hand over additional personal information to secure their $25 gift card related to the alleged bread price-fixing scandal.

Equifax Inc. says it has revised down the number of Canadians affected by its high-profile data breach to about 8,000 customers - from 100,000 previously estimated.

The NEB is great at censoring information it doesn't want the public to see. But a senior official admits it was careless about protecting my own personal bank account information.

Equifax Canada says approximately 100,000 Canadian consumers may have had their personal information compromised in the massive cyberattack on the credit data company made public earlier this month.

Canada's privacy watchdog launched an investigation into the massive Equifax Inc. data breach

As COVID-19 restrictions ease and restaurants start to welcome customers back, one thing Canadians may soon have to get used to is providing their personal information before they grab a bite.