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'Weak link' Canada needs new law to face security threats: spy agency nationalpost.com/news/canada/cs…

🧵 In June, The Netherlands announced it had detained a Russian spy, posing as a Brazilian just as he was about to start work for the ICC. Sent back to Brazil, he ended up sentenced to 15 years for using fraudulent documents. Russia now claims he's a drug dealer, not a spy...

Municipalities attack Doug Ford’s housing bill thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…

"The gov plans to provide further cybersecurity powers to the Communications Security Establishment. But given that Communications Security Establishment Canada is impeding lawful review of its activities, we should hesitate before giving it more powers." By Christopher Parsons of The Citizen Lab. options-po.li/3Vu1LWc

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A thoughtful 🧵 on Canada’s recently announced Indo-Pacific Strategy (Strategy itself available at: international.gc.ca/transparency-t…)

Alberta’s ‘World Class’ University Risks Collapse, Says Expert thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/2…

Supplementary Estimates (B), 2022-23 propose to increase CSE budget authority by $102 million, making total 2022-23 budget authority $930 million mstdn.ca/@billrobinson/…

Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland theregister.com/2022/11/28/yan…

Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds in Germany theregister.com/2022/11/30/off…

New third draft from NIST: SP 800-188 (Draft), De-Identifying Government Data Sets csrc.nist.gov/publications/d…

An important 🧵 that applies to newsrooms and beyond

Feds eyeing repatriation of 19 Canadian women and children held in Syria nationalnewswatch.com/2022/12/02/fed…

This Concordia University research project looked at privacy as it relates to central bank digital currency (#CBDC) projects and the conflicting views of key stakeholders: privacy-conscious digital currency users, data holders and law enforcement. priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions…

Lawyer Danilo Doneda, Champion for Brazilian Privacy and Data Protection Laws, Died at 52 www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/2022/12/mo…

🔊We are thrilled to announce that applications for our June 2023 Fellowships are now OPEN! 🔊 Between now and February 2nd, we are looking for early-career technologists who want impact tech policy and help Congress address critical issues. techcongress.io/blog/apply-now…

In a professional update, I’ll be joining Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario as a Senior Technology and Policy Advisor in February. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to work with the excellent folks at the IPC, and to use my skills to advance the privacy interests of Ontarians!