Information Technology
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December 09, 2024
New tool aimed at ensuring AI systems comply with human rights law
An Ontario-based law reform organization has partnered with the province’s human rights commission to create a new tool aimed at helping organizations evaluate their artificial intelligence (AI) systems for compliance with human rights requirements.
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December 06, 2024
No Charter breach when police warrantlessly searched text messages in ‘exigent circumstances’: SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed 6-3 an Ontario man’s appeal of his drug trafficking convictions, holding that his Charter rights were not breached because “exigent circumstances” justified police, without a warrant, using a cellphone they seized from a drug dealer to impersonate that dealer and continue his texting with the accused to arrange what police suspected to be a purchase of fentanyl-laced heroin.
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December 05, 2024
CSA provides guidance and seeks feedback on AI oversight and regulation in capital markets
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has published a staff notice and consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in capital markets and is seeking stakeholder feedback on the approaches to oversight and regulation in light of AI advancements.
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December 05, 2024
Federal privacy commissioner expresses lingering concerns over FINTRAC in report
Canada’s federal privacy commissioner is expressing ongoing concerns about how well the country’s anti-money laundering watchdog is protecting the personal information it gathers as part of its investigations — especially in the wake of two recent information security breaches.
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December 04, 2024
Household debt, cyber vulnerabilities main threats to financial stability, say market participants
Over half of investment dealers and portfolio managers are concerned about the stability of the Canadian financial system, according to a survey by Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) with household debt, cyber vulnerabilities, the geopolitical environment and the housing crisis being top concerns.
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December 04, 2024
CRTC launches consultation to make shopping for Internet easier
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced that it is launching a public consultation “to help make shopping for home internet plans easier.”
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December 03, 2024
Privacy Commissioner: New Ontario law regulating AI in public sector has significant shortcomings
Ontario’s privacy commission Patricia Kosseim has said that a lack of transparency and explicit independent oversight in a recently passed bill addressing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems at public sector entities should be a “cause of concern of Ontarians.”
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December 03, 2024
BCSC panel imposes over $18M in sanctions for crypto trading platform fraud
A panel of the British Columbia Securities Commission has imposed a financial sanction of $18.4 million on a B.C.-based crypto trading platform, finding that it lied to customers and diverted $13 million of its assets to gambling.
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December 03, 2024
Bombardier, Honeywell reach settlement in engine price lawsuit, enter $17B agreement
Bombardier Inc. has announced that it has reached an agreement to settle its lawsuit against Honeywell International Inc. relating to the cost of jet engines that Honeywell was making for Bombardier.
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December 02, 2024
Alberta to end ‘cash cow’ photo radar on highways in 2025
The Alberta government has announced it will end photo radar ticketing on numbered provincial highways effective April 1, 2025, saying photo radar will be eliminated where revenue is generated with no traffic safety benefit.