The use of online health platforms is on the rise, allowing us to track and share our personal data. While such platforms have promise, significant scientific, ethical and privacy questions remains.
You leave bits of your personal data behind online, and companies are happy to trade in them.
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Data privacy regulations are being adopted to protect internet users. Today, humans need to read those rules to ensure compliance. New research suggests machines could interpret them in real time.
A national digital ID system would hold huge amounts of personal information.
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A new digital ID system will gather piles of personal information in one place – and you won’t have full control over who has access
Monaco and Japan have some of the highest life expectancies in the world. But calculating an individual’s life expectancy will require taking data analysis several steps further.
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Predicting life expectancy remains in the realm of science fiction, but it may soon be possible. Are we prepared for such information? And who else would benefit from this knowledge?
Your social media data is immeasurably valuable.
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A proposed bill would force tech companies to tell users how much their data is worth. But how can a single number capture data’s power to predict your actions or sway your decisions?
New research reveals that many 19- to 24-year-olds are highly concerned about how organisations collect and use their data. This could be the beginning of a significant push back.
Companies aren’t living up to their privacy policies’ promises.
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States like California have been at the forefront of privacy innovation in recent decades. A possible federal law could bring their experimentation to a halt, harming consumers.
Written as the Cold War became entrenched, 1984 was meant as a warning on the nature of state power. Understanding this power is even more important today.
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While shifting cyber safety education beyond privacy is a step in the right direction, teachers already have to contend with an overcrowded curriculum.
Blockchain technologies can empower people by allowing them more control over their user data.
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A new scam tricks families based overseas into paying a ransom for Chinese students in Australia who have supposedly been kidnapped.
A cell phone user thumbs through the privacy settings on a Facebook account in Ottawa in March 2018. Canadians need to start making companies accountable for mining and using their personal data without their consent.
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Canadians — and consumers around the world — have the power to hold industries accountable for misuse or unauthorized use of our data. It’s time to use it.
Personality tests played a central role in the recent Facebook scandal over corporate harvesting of personal data. Why are businesses so interested in them?
Every month, over two billion people worldwide log into Facebook.
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Facebook’s users have wildly different expectations about privacy and security. What may look like inadequate oversight in some places may be considered an overreach in others.
Some of the Facebook and Instagram ads linked to a Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Several critical Canadian elections are ahead. Here’s what governments and social media companies must do to assure Canadians that their online personal data won’t be used to manipulate results.
The genome is becoming the unit of currency for all kinds of genetic testing.
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Do you own your own genetic data? The future of genomic databases is almost here, and now is the time to figure out how we are going to allow this information to be used.