Etiket: Data
A hacker admits the theft of data from Quebec teachers
A Montreal hacker has pleaded guilty to having participated in the massive theft of personal data of Quebec teachers in 2017 and 2018. Rath Pak, 43, entered his guilty plea…
ISQ data | Excess mortality on the rise in 2022
Quebec recorded higher excess mortality in 2022 than in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, show new data from the Quebec Institute of Statistics (ISQ). There is indeed an…
Data Access Bill | A “breach of professional secrecy”
(Quebec) The watchdog of the protection of personal information believes that Minister Éric Caire’s bill on access to health data goes too far. According to the President of the Commission…
Massive data theft at Desjardins | A suspect was already wiretapped in another investigation
A former insurance broker who is one of the suspects in the investigation into the massive theft of information at Desjardins was already the subject of wiretapping “in a case…
Access to health data | Fear of the “deterioration” of the doctor-patient relationship
(Quebec) The Federation of Medical Specialists of Quebec (FMSQ) and the College of Physicians fear that the Legault government’s bill aimed at increasing access to data will cause the “deterioration”…
Access to health data | “We are wasting precious time”, according to the health commissioner
(Quebec) The main organization responsible for scrutinizing the performance of the health network believes that the bill aimed at increasing access to health data does not give it the freedom…
Personal data: how to protect them?
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Green Party investigates leaked membership data
(OTTAWA) Greens Leader Elizabeth May said the party will investigate and conduct a “root-to-branch review” of all of its data retention systems after membership information was posted online by mistake.…
Home Depot shared customer personal data with Meta without their consent
The Home Depot home improvement store shared electronic receipt details with Meta, Facebook’s parent company, without customers’ knowledge or consent, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found. In a report…
TÉLUQ University: new certificate in data science
This text is part of the special section Higher Education In order to meet the growing needs of the labor market, TÉLUQ University has been offering a certificate in data…
United States | Data of 37 million T-Mobile customers hacked
(New York) The American mobile operator T-Mobile announced Thursday that it had been the victim of a computer hack that affected the data of 37 million customers. Posted at 6:40…
Personal data: Meta hit by a new fine, targeting WhatsApp
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, was fined 5.5 million euros (C$8 million) on Thursday by the Irish regulator for violating European data regulation (GDPR) with its WhatsApp messaging, of a limited…
Toronto Stock Exchange | S&P/TSX up slightly on eve of inflation data
(Toronto) The Toronto Stock Exchange closed slightly higher on Monday, with gains in most of its sectors allowing it to stay in positive territory despite the weak volume of activity.…
Health transfers | Quebec open to data sharing with Ottawa
(Montreal) Prime Minister François Legault’s office issued a statement Thursday after his Ontario counterpart, Doug Ford, mentioned the day before that he was ready to accept certain conditions from the…
In Haute-Garonne, data centers serve as heating for individuals
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Quebec says it is ready to hand over its health data to Ottawa
The Government of Quebec is changing its rhetoric on the issue of federal health transfers and says it is now ready to transmit data to Ottawa in exchange for additional…
Quebec ready to transfer its data to the federal health system
The Government of Quebec is changing its rhetoric on the issue of health transfers and says it is now ready to transmit data to Ottawa in exchange for additional funds.…
ISQ data | The population increased in all regions except the North Shore
(Quebec) The population of all the administrative regions of Quebec increased between 1er July 2021 and the 1er last July, according to the Quebec Statistical Institute (ISQ), which specifies that…
Chinese data does not reflect recovery of COVID-19 outbreak, WHO says
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday criticized China’s new “very narrow” definition of a death attributed to COVID-19, saying the statistics are out of step with the country’s resumption…
Personal data: Meta receives a new fine for violating European regulations
Meta Group, the parent company of Facebook, was fined two hefty fines totaling 390 million euros (C$560 million) on Wednesday for breaching European data regulation (GDPR), the Irish regulator said.…