On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced “Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts.” If passed into law, it will significantly reform the Telecommunications Act as well as impose new requirements on federally regulated critical infrastructure providers
September 13, 2022
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October 21, 2021
Ontario 360’s new paper, How to Improve Energy Forecasting in Ontario, outlines operational and policy reforms to improve forecasting as part of the Ontario government’s long-term energy planning. The paper is co-authored by University of Toronto adjunct law professor George...
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October 19, 2021
Civil society can expect governments to justify using digital surveillance beyond the pandemic as a means to protect national security, implement governance priorities, and serve future public health interests. Read Irene Poetranto and Loutus Ruan’s piece for the Carnegie Endowment...
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October 12, 2021
https://citizenlab.ca/2021/10/clean-up-in-the-digital-aisle-privacy-concerns-with-sobeys-inc-caper-carts-system/
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October 6, 2021
Ontario 360’s latest policy paper, “How Ontario’s Mid-Sized Cities Can Thrive,” outlines a new policy framework to help Ontario mid-sized cities attract investment, jobs and opportunities using place-based strategies. The paper is co-authored by policy consultants Blair Gibbs and Carly...
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September 30, 2021
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784594
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September 28, 2021
In, “Pandemic Privacy: A preliminary analysis of collection technologies, data collection laws, and legislative reform during COVID-19,” Citizen Lab researchers undertake a preliminary comparative analysis of how different information technologies were mobilized in response to COVID-19 to collect data, the...
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Close to half of all Indigenous Peoples in Canada live in urban areas. Although the Canadian constitution and case law set out the responsibilities of provincial and federal governments to Indigenous Peoples, they shed little light on the relationships between...
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September 13, 2021
While analyzing the phone of a Saudi activist infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, Citizen Lab researchers discovered a zero-day zero-click exploit against iMessage. The exploit, which we call FORCEDENTRY, targets Apple’s image rendering library, and was effective against Apple...
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Technological innovation can raise the returns to some skills while making others less valuable or even obsolete. Ian Fillmore, along with Munk School’s Jonathan Hall, study the effects of such skill-altering technological change in the context of men’s professional tennis,...
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In this study, researchers including the Munk School’s Linda White demonstrate why oversight and monitoring of the home child care (HCC) sector deserves more scrutiny and policy attention in Canada. Focusing on Ontario as a key case given its population...
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