Navigating Canada’s Privacy Landscape
Understanding Your Compliance Obligations Privacy is a rising concern for organizations across sectors, as well as a renewed focus for legislators and regulators. Canada’s privacy legal landscape is complex, with federal and provincial laws, sector specific laws, and common law forming a network of protection for individual privacy rights. It is important for organizations to…
How Effective Is Your Privacy Program?
Developing a Mature Privacy Program Most organizational leaders understand privacy as a priority. They know that their organization needs a legally compliant privacy policy and a qualified privacy officer, and that new technological tools should be evaluated from the perspective of privacy. Once these basics are in place, however, they often have a harder time…
Getting Your Organization on Board with Privacy
Establishing a culture of privacy Ten years ago, privacy was a new conversation for many organizations. Today, the leaders of most large organizations are talking about it. Boards’ and executives’ top concerns are: Meeting increased regulatory requirements Preventing or responding to data breaches Navigating the pitfalls and prizes of data analytics In the age of…
Seizing the Opportunities of Big Data
What Data Analytics Can Do for You Nearly everyone, from the world of business to academia and government, seems to be talking about Big Data. Endless pieces of information, from billions of sources, are being collected and evaluated, often in real time. It’s one of the most important features of our current technological climate. It…
Data for Democracy Project
Monitoring Elections The Data for Democracy Project aims to identify and recommend strategies, tools, and technology to protect democratic processes and systems from social media misinformation and disinformation. By creating a technology solution that permits observers to monitor election interference, we offer a unique and bipartisan approach to election monitoring. Built by experts in technology,…
Disinformation is polluting democracy
Disinformation campaigns and the future of elections United States citizens are still recovering from the aftermath of the election. KI Design’s media monitoring data shows that 39% of online election sentiment is negative. Voters have experienced sustained disinformation campaigns that have compromised the electoral system and undermining public confidence in democratic processes. Disinformation – false…
Series: Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World
Over the past decade, privacy has become an increasing concern for the public as data analytics have expanded exponentially in scope. Big data has become a part of our everyday lives in ways that most people are not fully aware of and don’t understand.
Moving from Access Control to Use Control
Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 5 I would like to outline a new concept of use control: a way of designing AI systems so that personal data can be used only for specified purposes.
Is AI Compatible with Privacy Principles?
Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 2 Many experts on privacy and artificial intelligence (AI) have questioned whether AI technologies such as machine learning, predictive analytics, and deep learning are compatible with basic privacy principles.
Do We Need to Legislate AI?
Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 1 In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data have subtly changed many aspects of our daily lives in ways that we may not yet fully understand. As the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) of Canada states, “AI has great potential in improving public and…
Why Canadian Privacy Enforcement Needs Teeth
Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 7 This seven-part series explores, from a Canadian perspective, options for effective privacy regulation in an AI context. In this series on bringing privacy regulation up to date for a world of big data and AI, I have discussed the need for revised legislation, the continued relevance…
Implementing Use Control: The Next Generation of Data Protection
Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 6 In my last few posts, I have discussed the crucial difference between access control and use control as tools for protecting privacy in an AI context. Access control has been highly effective in managing security threats – so much so, in fact, that external hacks are…