• Big Data’s Big Privacy Leak – Metadata and Data Lakes

    Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 3 This seven-part series explores, from a Canadian perspective, options for effective privacy regulation in an AI context. For a long time, access control has been the principal means of protecting personal information. Fifty years ago, this meant locked file cabinets. Today, much of our personal data…


  • ACCESS CONTROL IN BIG DATA

    Access Control in a Big Data Context

    Bringing Privacy Regulation into an AI World, Part 4 This seven-part series explores, from a Canadian perspective, options for effective privacy regulation in an AI context. Access control, the ability to control access to information, has long been the primary tool of online security. The great advantage of access control is that it tells you…


  • 5 Questions About Elections and Disinformation

    With a US election campaign ramping up, many people around the world are paying attention to the impact of misinformation and disinformation on democracy. Electoral management bodies, including election officials at all levels of government, are looking to social media monitoring to battle election interference through disinformation campaigns. Three types of attacks are commonly seen…


  • A 3D Test for Evaluating COVID Alert: Canada’s Official Coronavirus App

    Great news – Canada has just released its free COVID-19 exposure notification app [1], COVID Alert. Several questions now arise: Is it private and secure? Will it be widely adopted? And how effective will it be at slowing the spread of the virus? We have evaluated the COVID alert app against three dimensions: Concept, Implementation,…


  • Tracing disinformation

    Can disinformation be traced? USelection2020

    Political parties in the United States, and the rest of the world, know fake news to be a threat to democratic process. News media often partakes in the conversation about disinformation and voter suppression. All parties consider the culprit to be the opposing party or foreign actors (state or independent). Election management bodies consider disinformation…


  • Outbreak Notification App Design

    From Contact Tracing to Outbreak Notification Call for Participation As countries assess how best to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, many have introduced smartphone apps to help identify which users have been infected. These apps vary from country to country. Some are mandatory for citizens to use, such as apps released by the governments of…


  • Do ‘Contact Tracing Apps’​ need a Privacy Test?

    The Coronavirus continues to cause serious damage to humanity: loss of life, employment, and economic opportunity. In an effort to restart economic activity, governments at every level, local, regional, and national, have been working on a phased approach to re-opening. However, with re-opening comes a substantial risk of outbreaks. Epidemiological studies are showing that shutdowns have…


  • Blackbaud breach – Executive Options in light of Reports to OPC & ICO

    Three Executive Actions to help mitigate further risk If your company leverages Blackbaud CRM – this article will provide you of three actions that will help mitigate risk. Blackbaud a reputable company that offers a customer relationship management system has been hit and paid off ransomware. According to G2, Blackbaud CRM is a cloud fundraising and…


  • KI Live Video Conferences

    KI Live Video Conferences Description KI Live Video enables online communication for audio meetings, video meetings, and seminars, with built-in features such as chat, screen sharing, and recording. The plugin enables long-distance or international communication, enhance collaboration, and reduce travel costs. Employees at every level within an organization can use video conferencing tools to host…


  • MONITORING POLITICAL FINANCING ISSUES ON SOCIAL MEDIA — PART V

    Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series How social medial monitoring can help Electoral Management Bodies to ascertain, measure, and validate political spending. How politicians and their supporters invest in political messaging is rapidly changing. For the last few years, the amount of money spent on political advertising on the Internet has been…


  • KI DESIGN NATIONAL ELECTION SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING PLAYBOOK — PART IV of V

    Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series How to monitor social media with AI-based tools during an election campaign  Traditional election monitoring is a formalized process in democratic countries, set out in the mandate of the national Electoral Management Body (EMB). As social and digital cultures change, however, EMBs are finding it useful…


  • MANAGING OPERATIONAL ISSUES DURING AN ELECTION — PART III of V

    Monitoring Online Discourse During An Election: A 5-Part Series The advantages of managing election logistical issues through social media. Organizing the logistics of an election is a complex process. It’s a question of scale; the sheer numbers involved – of voters, of polling options and locations, and of election materials – means that things can,…