About 60 per cent of the AI-oriented websites that Ontario public servants used when the provincial auditor general checked in 2025 were “unsafe and unsecured,” Shelley Spence revealed in a scathing report. Hardly any workers used the one approved tool (Microsoft Copilot) and nothing stopped them from using browsers without filters that would keep them from uploading Ontarians’ personal information. (The Logic)

Talking point: Spence took on a procurement of tools meant to simplify medical note-taking as a case study. A process that produced a list of approved “scribes” undervalued accuracy (awarding four per cent of potential points for it, compared to 30 per cent for a provider’s Ontario presence), she found. Twelve of 20 vendors that the province approved as suppliers made scribes that put incorrect information in their notes, such as getting prescribed drugs wrong; nine of 20 straight-up invented medical instructions or observations. The vendors all promised they had proper security and privacy measures but most provided no external verification.