Reading Time: 5 minutesDisponible en français. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It can be found in search engines, connected cars, smartphones and chatbots such as ChatGPT. Although AI offers many benefits, it also poses a number of risks, particularly to privacy. Privacy… Read More ›
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The Growing Importance of Open-Source Intelligence to National Security
Reading Time: 6 minutesDisponible en français. Intelligence agencies around the world, including the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), are increasingly acquiring, analyzing, using and sharing publicly available information (see Figure 1). Given the scale of data involved, artificial intelligence (AI) – particularly machine learning… Read More ›
Privacy by Design: Origin and Purpose
Reading Time: 5 minutesDisponible en français. Protecting Privacy In an era of rapid technological advances in which giant social media corporations have access to the data of millions of users and data breaches occur frequently, privacy has become a topic of much discussion… Read More ›
The Right to Be Left Alone and Police Powers in Canada: Is an Update Needed?
Reading Time: 2 minutes(Disponible en français : Le droit de ne pas être importuné et les pouvoirs policiers au Canada : une mise à jour s’impose‑t‑elle?) One of the pillars of the law is predictability. Yet decisions of Canada’s highest court on the… Read More ›
Technological Advances and Privacy
Reading Time: 4 minutes(Disponible en français : Avancées technologiques et protection de la vie privée) Some of the technological advances that have emerged in the last few years have had or could have a significant impact on privacy and data protection. For instance,… Read More ›