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Ottawa takes second shot at overhauling Canada’s consumer privacy laws

By Murad Hemmadi

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Dec. 3, 2021.

Champagne promises updated privacy legislation in new year

By Murad Hemmadi

The new exposure notification app, backed by the federal and Ontario governments.

Federal, Ontario governments launching apps to aid contact-tracing efforts

By Martin Patriquin and Murad Hemmadi

Canadian Attorney General David Lametti in Ottawa in February 2020 and U.S. Attorney General William Barr in Washington, D.C. in April 2019.

Canada, U.S. attorneys general discussed law to speed up police access to data across borders

By Murad Hemmadi

A commuter on the Montreal subway in May 2020

Ryerson cyber-policy group calls for law preventing employers and businesses making contact-tracing apps mandatory

By Murad Hemmadi

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains testifies at a virtual meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Innovation, Science and Technology in April 2020.

Palantir’s MacNaughton has ‘engaged with many’ in federal government: Bains

By Murad Hemmadi

David MacNaughton, then-Canadian ambassador to the U.S., at a news conference in Washington, D.C. in June 2019.

Palantir’s MacNaughton says data-mining firm is working with Ottawa, three provinces on COVID-19

By Murad Hemmadi

Customers practice social distancing as they wait outside a bank branch in Toronto in March 2020.

Canadian Civil Liberties Association calls for safeguards in data-based COVID-19 contact tracing

By Murad Hemmadi

Olaf von Löwis, the designated District Administrator of Miesach, Germany visits a local disaster control command group in April 2020.

Trace me on my cellphone: The different ways governments are using phones to fight COVID-19

By Murad Hemmadi and Caroline Mercer

Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos, then the social development minister, speaking during Question Period in the House of Commons in June 2019.

Ottawa won’t say whether cabinet ministers’ offices have suffered privacy breaches

By Murad Hemmadi