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Salesforce Einstein poses data-sharing dilemma for CIOs

Analytics tool works best if every Salesforce customer shares anonymized data for mass processing. Will CIOs agree?

Federal data breaches up 16 per cent, Canadian privacy commissioner reports

"Accidental disclosure" was most common cause of incidents, according to the annual report

Most makers of IoT devices still don’t explain how personal info is used: Report

Almost 60 per cent of devices looked at didn't adequately explain how personal information is collected, used and disclosed

Ashley Madison attack aided by credentials theft: Report

Among the lessons learned, says Canada's privacy commissioner, is use multi-factor authentication for administrators, have a governance framework, be transparent about data handling

Many federal managers had unneeded access to employees’ personal information: CBC

New federal pay system gave 70,000 managers access to personnel records

Canada’s privacy laws need to be updated. But don’t look to Europe or the US for guidance, experts say

Canadian experts such as Michael Geist, Daniel Tobok, and Ann Cavoukian weigh in on Canada's data privacy approach

Breach notification reporting can be complicated without proper skills, tools

Reporting breaches under the Digital Privacy Act becomes complicated if a company doesn’t know when it was breached or how much data was touched by a bad actor

U.S. law can’t force American service providers to turn over foreign data: Court

American appeal court says law doesn't apply outside U.S. A Canadian privacy lawyer comments

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