News Summary July 6th 2024
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Your FIPA Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday July 6th. Several of the Canadian National, Provincial, and International stories that hit our radar over the past week include:
- A former BC IT branch manager breached privacy regulations to help his son with neighbour disputes.
- Access to Information sheds light on big oil influencing and coopting political parties and Governments.
- Helpful news to help keep people’s passwords safe.
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Our Contributors
- Writing: Shaun Fisk
- Production: Patrick Farnsworth
- Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
- News stories sourced through Canadian Press NewsPro and Feedly
Show Links
- Former IT manager loses B.C. court battle over stolen files
- As fall elections loom, are fears for the state of democracy in Canada justified?
- Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models
- European Union accuses Facebook owner Meta of breaking digital rules with paid ad-free option
- European Union's competition boss signals fresh AI scrutiny for Microsoft-OpenAI deal and Google
- AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?
- UN adopts Chinese resolution with US support on closing the gap in access to artificial intelligence
- As police increasingly use facial recognition technology, calls grow for regulations
- Inside a former TC Energy exec’s claim he got pro-pipeline messaging ‘stuck on government letterhead’
- 'Foreign visitors want to experience Indigenous tourism, but federal supports lacking: internal documents
- https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/07/03/news/indigenous-tourism-federal-supports-lacking
- Ontario alone in locking down inmates due to staff shortages: lawsuits
- One Tech Tip: What to do when you have too many passwords to remember
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