/newsroom/taxonomy/term/7967/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-canada-bans-tiktok-all-government-devices-346492 <p>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 media app from being downloaded on official devices in the future. The new rule follows the app’s intense scrutiny in the United States and also concerns of covert Chinese influence on Canadian affairs. (<a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-tiktok-ban-canada-government-devices/?login=true" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Globe and Mail</a>) </p> Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:46:37 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 293907 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-ottawa-tested-facial-recognition-millions-travellers-torontos-pearson-airport-332052 <p>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 pick out people the Canada Border Services Agency suspected might try to enter the country using fake identification, is detailed in a document obtained by <i>The Globe and Mail</i> through a freedom of information request. The project is the largest known government deployment of the technology in Canada to date.</p> Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:22:30 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 270382 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-2020-national-cyber-threat-assessment-326374 <p>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, intellectual property, and political events like elections.</p> Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:20:23 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 249782 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-cyber-security-cyber-attacks-and-data-breaches-303626 <p>Cyber security breaches at <a href="https://business.financialpost.com/technology/lifelabs-hack-may-have-compromised-personal-info-of-15-mln-canadians-2">LifeLabs</a>, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/potential-scope-of-desjardins-data-breach-widens-to-include-another-2-million-credit-card-holders-1.5391021">Desjardins</a>, <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/capital-one-target-of-massive-data-breach-6-million-canadians-impacted-1.4528804">Capital One</a>, and <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6012007/transunion-data-compromised-canadians/">TransUnion</a> underscore t</p> Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:56:16 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 191323 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-google-duplex-ai-287133 <p>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: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/99635a6e-540b-11e8-b3ee-41e0209208ec">Financial Times</a>)</p> Thu, 10 May 2018 17:35:58 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 39770 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/12-m-mcgill-cfi-john-r-evans-leaders-fund-260432 <p><strong><em><a href="/newsroom">ƻ����Ժ Newsroom</a></em></strong></p> <p><em>To support six research projects in fields from neuroscience to food safety and Arctic ecosystems</em></p> Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:34:05 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 25730 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/apple-vows-resist-fbi-demand-crack-iphone-259132 <p>"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 shooters in December’s terrorist attacks in San Bernardino." (<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-wants-apple-to-help-unlock-iphone-used-by-san-bernardino-shooter/2016/02/16/69b903ee-d4d9-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html"><em>The Washington Post</em></a>)</p> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:47:30 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25314 at /newsroom /newsroom/benjamin-fung Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 24419 at /newsroom