Canada’s privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into the IDScan.net data breach, examining the company’s security safeguards and its notifications to people whose identification information was affected. Commissioner Philippe Dufresne’s […]

Google is beginning a gradual Canadian rollout of machine-learning age assurance that estimates whether an account holder is under 18. Accounts classified as belonging to minors will receive additional protections, […]

Toronto Pearson International Airport is piloting four facial-verification e-gates with Air Canada, extending biometric processing to domestic and US-bound departures. One gate is operating for domestic passengers and three are […]

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by shoppers who say Cadillac Fairview collected their biometric data through cameras built into mall directories, leaving them without a […]

Canada has opened a supplier-qualification process for the modernization of the front end of the Canadian Immigration Biometric Identification System, the platform that supports biometric collection for the country’s immigration […]

The Ottawa Police Service has been approved to move ahead with the first phase of a facial recognition program, joining a shared network with three other Ontario forces and adding […]

Canada has introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, proposed legislation that would create a new digital-safety framework and set a minimum age of 16 for holding a social […]

Fime has been accredited by the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada as an official auditor under the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework, becoming the first DIACC-accredited auditor based in Quebec. […]

Welcome to the latest edition of the AI Update, where we continue to track the major developments in artificial intelligence and their implications for identity security and cybersecurity more broadly. […]

Welcome to the latest edition of the AI Update, where we continue to track the major developments in artificial intelligence and their implications for identity security and cybersecurity more broadly. […]