The Alberta government is making changes to strengthen privacy rules, including a ban on public bodies such as schools and municipalities selling private information. Technology Minister Nate Glubish says while the province and other public bodies in Alberta are not believed to be selling such information, the bill would make clear it is prohibited. “It […]

Members of Parliament studying the federal government’s decision to buy a $9-million luxury condo in Manhattan are preparing to recall Canada’s consul general in New York to answer more questions about his involvement in the purchase. The Conservatives put forward a motion on Tuesday to have Tom Clark return to the House operations committee. The […]

The information and privacy commissioner for the Yukon says the current approach to access to information isn’t working.   In the Yukon ombudsman’s 2023 annual report, tabled in the territorial legislature on Oct. 21, Jason Pedlar said the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (ATIPPA) needs to be amended to give the commissioner the […]

Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says she will relentlessly stress the importance of transparency by default if she’s allowed to continue in her job. The Liberal government recently nominated Maynard, an ombudsman for users of the Access to Information Act, to serve another seven-year term.  For a $5 fee, people can use the access act to […]

Connecticut voters will decide Tuesday whether to get rid of rules preventing the state from joining the 36 others that allow people to cast ballots by mail or through drop boxes without needing an excuse for not going to a polling place in person. An amendment to the state constitution would lift long-standing restrictions that […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers. It was the latest in a series of penalties […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a decision by a lower court that required the Secretary of State’s office to release a list of tens of thousands of voters who were mistakenly classified as having access to Arizona’s full ballot because of a coding glitch. The court rejected an appeal […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s federal law enforcement and election security agencies are debunking two new examples of Russian election disinformation on the eve of Election Day, highlighting attempts by foreign actors to sow doubt in the U.S. voting process and warning that the efforts run the risk of inciting violence against election officials. In […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Nominees for some of the European Union’s top jobs faced parliamentary hearings on Monday, as lawmakers start to vet would-be commissioners to oversee Europe-wide policies ranging from agriculture to trade for the next five years. Four of the 26 new members of the EU’s increasingly powerful executive branch, the European Commission, were […]

The leader of Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives made clear last week that if he’s re-elected, a key change that he once supported to increase the power of the province’s information commissioner is on the back burner, if not dead.  “No, not for now,” said Tim Houston, when asked by a reporter on the second day […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Five months after the European Union lurched to the political right, the influence of nationalist and populist parties will go on public display in Brussels on Monday when lawmakers vet the proposed new members of the EU’s increasingly powerful executive branch. Over five days of hearings, the EU parliamentarians will grill 26 […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Abortion and reproductive rights have been central to the races for president and governor in North Carolina, a battleground state that has more moderate abortion restrictions than elsewhere across the South. That’s been even truer in the fight for a seat on the state Supreme Court that abortion rights supporters […]