TORONTO — In the halls of Parliament, TikTok is banned from civil servants’ phones as the government grapples with allegations of foreign interference. But on Canada’s red carpets and in sports arenas, the popular social media platform is still welcome. The video-sharing app has served as the official voting platform for the Juno Awards’ fan […]

TORONTO — Canadian LinkedIn users wanting to ensure the public that they’re the real deal now have another method of verifying their online/digital identity: government identification. The Microsoft-owned platform announced Thursday that it is giving its 22 million Canadian members the option to verify their profiles by providing a copy of their government identification to […]

Canadians have been unlocking iPhones with their fingerprint since 2013 and are sometimes exposed to facial recognition software before boarding planes, but when it comes to biometric technology, Erik Scheme and Mayssa Rekik are one step ahead. The associate director of the University of New Brunswick’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering and the advanced technologies undergraduate […]

TORONTO — Ontario auto insurers have been involved in intentional, industry-wide violations of rules around fair access to coverage, the sector’s regulator said Thursday. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) says in a report that it uncovered practices that made it harder for certain types of consumers — those who had prior claims, […]

TORONTO — Canada’s industry minister says he thinks the country is “ahead of the curve” with its approach to artificial intelligence, beating even the European Union. “Canada is likely to be the first country in the world to have a digital charter where we’re going to have a chapter on responsible AI because we want […]

TORONTO — It knows when you’ve been online shopping, the last time you worked out and whether you’ve been lurking on your ex’s profile. Meta’s new social media platform Threads is gobbling up massive amounts of sensitive data on its 100 million users and counting. The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia […]

LONDON (AP) — Meta is poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday. It is billed as a “text-based […]

TORONTO — When the Collision tech conference got underway in Toronto on Tuesday, there were two words that dominated discussions across the Enercare Centre: artificial intelligence. From the speakers that took to the annual event’s stages to the swath of startups seeking investments and exposure, seemingly everyone had something to say about the technology that […]

TORONTO — Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio says he will be redirecting his research to ensure he is working on applications of the technology that are safe for society. “I have been thinking a lot about this and I am going to do what I think is best to go in the right direction,” the […]

TORONTO — Anna Pobletts has spent the last few years on a mission to make passwords a thing of the past, but passkeys — the technology that could replace them — have never truly been on the brink of widespread consumer adoption until this year. “We’re seeing some really big-name sites like EBay, Best Buy […]

TORONTO — Whether you’re catching a flight, opening a new bank account or picking up groceries, a small group of big names takes up most of the market share. Competition Ltd. is a Canadian Press series that explores what this means for products — and prices — in the country. It’s been 20 years since […]

TORONTO — It’s been one month since a ransomware attack hit Canada’s biggest bookstore chain. The hack kicked Indigo Books & Music Inc.’s website and payment systems offline and compromised the personal information of some current and former employees. Here’s a timeline of the cyberattack: Feb. 8: In a post on Twitter at 2:15 p.m. […]