Expert: Canada bans TikTok on all government devices

Published: 1 March 2023

Ottawa announced it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices in response to privacy and security concerns. The federal government said it will also block the Chinese-owned social...

Experts: Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto’s Pearson airport

Published: 22 July 2021

The federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions of unsuspecting travellers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in 2016. The six-month initiative, meant to...

Expert: 2020 National Cyber Threat Assessment

Published: 20 November 2020

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has named China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea’s state-sponsored cyber activity as posing the “greatest strategic threats” to Canada’s critical infrastructure...

Expert: Cyber security, cyber attacks, and data breaches

Published: 18 December 2019

Cyber security breaches at LifeLabs, Desjardins, Capital One, and TransUnion underscore t

Expert: Google Duplex / AI

Published: 10 May 2018

Google’s AI fest offers an ominous glimpse of the robot future: Machines fooling humans into thinking they are people raise obvious ethical concerns (source: Financial Times)

$1.2 M for McGill from CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Published: 15 April 2016

McGill Newsroom To support six research projects in fields from neuroscience to food safety and Arctic ecosystems

Expert: Apple vows to resist FBI demand to crack iPhone

Published: 17 February 2016

"Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company’s chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the...

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