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For Print Use Only. The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: The antitrust onslaught against Facebook last week focused its case of harm in a familiar place: privacy. Whatever [...]

Byline: VASS BEDNAR Lead Executive director of McMaster University's master of public policy in digital society program The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Facebook in tandem with 48 [...]

Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights. A showdown looms. Privacy concerns in Europe have [...]

Byline: JOSH O'KANE, BILL CURRY TORONTO, OTTAWA -- Lead Ottawa plans to overhaul its two-decadeold private-sector privacy rules to give Canadians greater control over how companies handle their data, while [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead Alberta's Information and Privacy Commissioner says she was not consulted on proposed changes to the Health Information Act, but will review them as they are [...]

Byline: Geoffrey A. Fowler The campaign messages are coming fast and furious now. 'Hi Geoffrey, I'm Jess w/People's Action,' reads one. 'Voter Alert for Geoffrey Fowler!' says another. And the [...]

Byline: Charles Lane For Print Use Only. In the continuing protests over policing and racial injustice, the latest flashpoint is Evanston, Ill., where Northwestern University students and others are calling [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE, PATRICK WHITE Lead Six-year-old Ljubica Topic was playing outside the family's Windsor home on May 15, 1971, when a neighbour lured her away with the promise of [...]

Byline: LAUREN KRUGEL, THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Lead Crowded exam halls echoing with pencil scratches, rustling papers and supervisors' footsteps have been replaced with solo tests in bedrooms or [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY -- Lead CALGARY Crowded exam halls echoing with pencil scratches, rustling papers and supervisors' footsteps have been replaced with solo tests in bedrooms or at [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY, CHRIS HANNAY OTTAWA -- Lead The Canada Infrastructure Bank paid $3.8-million in termination benefits as part of a major shakeup of the organization's senior management, documents show. [...]

Byline: Reed Albergotti Lawyers representing a Google employee suing the company want to know whether the search engine giant believes it's allowed to view his digital communication, a case that [...]

Byline: JAMES KELLER, Staff CALGARY -- Lead The Alberta government is calling on Ottawa to ensure the RCMP use a provincial law that allows police to warn those at high [...]

Byline: Ty Tagami Shonte Smith's sister has been lying in a hospital bed since August, kept alive by a ventilator. The teacher from Emanuel County was taken to an Augusta [...]

Byline: JAMES KELLER, Staff CALGARY -- Lead Police forces and unions in Alberta say they support making more of their disciplinary process public, but they argue that publicizing every complaint [...]

Byline: Natalie Grover Pregnant women's alcohol consumption could be recorded on their child's medical records under plans for England being considered by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), [...]

Byline: Simon Goodley The ride-hailing app Wheely has written to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after claiming it is being pressured into potentially breaking European privacy law by handing [...]

Byline: MOLLY HAYES, Staff Lead Three months after a law took effect in Saskatchewan that allows police forces to warn those at high risk of intimate-partner violence, the RCMP are [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima Two of the nation's largest surveillance agencies repeatedly violated either the law or related court orders in incidents reported last year despite training on the procedures set [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield University of Alabama faculty members were threatened by department leaders Aug. 24 with 'serious consequences' if they shared news of coronavirus infections on campus. Arizona State University, [...]

Byline: By, Brett Gibbons The coronavirus test and trace programme introduced in England broke a key data protection law, according to privacy campaigners. The Department of Health and Social Care [...]

The ruling is the latest twist in a campaign by privacy-rights activists in Europe to prevent personal information from being transferred to countries with looser protections. LONDON -- Europe's top [...]

Byline: Rachel Lerman California's privacy law, often called the broadest law for digital privacy in the United States, can finally be enforced starting Wednesday. And despite industry calls for the [...]

From Minneapolis to Buffalo, Homeland Security officials dispatched drones, helicopters and airplanes to monitor Black Lives Matter protests. GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The Department of Homeland Security deployed helicopters, airplanes [...]

Byline: Michael Kleinman and Charanya Krishnaswami In the terrifying, uncertain days following 9/11, Congress authorized measures empowering the most sweeping surveillance the United States had ever seen. These measures, the [...]

Social Media Children's Groups Say TikTok Broke Promises TikTok, the popular app for making and sharing short videos, has flouted an agreement it made with the Federal Trade Commission to [...]

Some property owners and building managers are informing residents when a neighbor has tested positive. But they don't have to. Q: Last week, I received a notice from the managing [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When the first case of the coronavirus in Silicon Valley was discovered in late January, health officials were faced with a barrage of questions: What city [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss WASHINGTON - With tens of millions of American students now learning online after their schools closed amid the global coronavirus pandemic, some U.S. senators are urging the [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE, Staff Lead In its bid to contend with coronavirus, Israel has taken a step few other democracies would openly consider: Hundreds of people have started getting warnings [...]

Byline: MICHAEL GEIST Lead Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law Canadian privacy law is now widely regarded as outdated and [...]

Byline: KRISTY KIRKUP, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead The federal Privacy Commissioner's office said Friday that it has opened an investigation into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's use of facial-recognition technology. [...]