Etiket: Data
Confidentiality and use of personal data: what Quebecers think and do about it
Some 1,012 consumers, including 230 Quebecers, responded to Capterra’s Consumer Privacy survey, sponsored by GetApp. Divided into two segments, the first aimed to know the expectations of consumers regarding the…
Climate plans doomed to failure for lack of data
Canada and Quebec have always shared the same inability to achieve their climate and environmental targets. Why ? Lack of public access to data from crucial sectors for the energy…
Ottawa needs to better protect our data
The federal government manages many files for which we entrust it with personal information such as our name, our age, our address, our bank details, our tax data… It also…
Federal health transfers | Legault ready to share his data with Ottawa
(Djerba, Tunisia) Quebec and Ottawa are showing the first signs of rapprochement on the contentious front of federal health transfers. François Legault “is ready” to share his data with the…
Federal health and data transfers | Quebec is doing a “very good job”, praise Trudeau
(Djerba, Tunisia) Justin Trudeau tries to reconcile the thorny issue of federal health transfers by stressing that the Legault government is “already doing a very good job” in terms of…
What is the value of personal health data?
How much is health network data worth? In Canada, it’s a $200 billion question. The real answer risks increasing the appetite of governments, like that of Quebec, which see in…
Protection of personal data | Ottawa needs to do more, says auditor general
(OTTAWA) Various federal government departments must do more to secure Canadians’ personal data stored in the cloud, the auditor general warns in a new report released Tuesday. Posted at 6:17…
Data Privacy | Google signs deal worth $391.5 million with 40 US states
(San Francisco) A coalition of 40 American states welcomed on Monday having reached an agreement with Google, to oblige the Internet giant to make its methods of collecting user data…
Data privacy: Google will pay 392 million to 40 US states
Google has struck a deal with 40 US states, agreeing to pay them US$391.5 million to end investigations into how the search engine collects user data. It’s the largest-ever multi-state…
Are data centers as important as aluminum smelters?
Hydro-Québec wants to quintuple its sales to the Google and Amazon data centers of this world, which would have “an economic impact equivalent to aluminum smelters”, according to its chief…
Cyberattack: Australia accuses Russian hackers of stealing medical data
Australian police announced on Friday that Russian hackers were behind the cyberattack on Australian insurance giant Medibank, which affected 9.7 million people including the prime minister. • Read also: Cyberattack…
data relating to Thales published on the dark web
The Russian-speaking group Lockbit 3.0 had indicated that “all available data” would be published and had released a count up to November 7. Article written by Posted on 11/11/2022 06:59…
Personal data collected on government sites
Commercial sites are not the only ones to collect data on our personal activities. Governments around the world are using, sometimes unknowingly, the same tracking techniques as the private companies…
Data from the CAA-Quebec Foundation | At 70 km/h in a school zone
In Quebec City as in Montreal, motorists driving inside school zones are going too fast, shows data collected by the CAA-Quebec Foundation. Around schools, up to 96% of motorists exceeded…
Opposed to the Social Security budget, biologists threaten to stop feeding the Covid-19 test data file
Biology laboratories are protesting against the Social Security financing bill which plans to impose 250 on them million euros in savings per year. Article written by Posted on 10/26/2022 11:48…
Corporate Data Theft | Bof!, say a third of Quebec employees
Bof! More than a third of Quebec employees (36%) say they are little or not concerned about data theft in their company. Posted at 9:00 a.m. Marc Tison The Press…
Opposed to the Social Security budget, biologists threaten to stop feeding the Covid-19 test data file
Biology laboratories are protesting against the Social Security financing bill which plans to impose 250 on them million euros in savings per year. Article written by Published on 10/26/2022 11:48…
Texas accuses Google of illegally collecting biometric data
(San Francisco) Texas filed a lawsuit against Google on Thursday, accusing the internet giant of having collected the biometric data of millions of people without their informed consent, a lawsuit…
New seroprevalence data | Three-quarters of Quebecers have contracted the virus
The arrival of the Omicron variant has exploded the proportion of the population having had COVID-19 in the country, especially in Quebec. Nearly three quarters of Quebecers have contracted the…
Faced with the energy crisis, a data center in Yonne relies on solar trackers
Published on 10/13/2022 6:19 p.m. FTR Article written by In Toucy, in the Yonne, a huge data center has decided to turn to rotating photovoltaic panels to supply part of…