Canada falling behind in privacy laws Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien calls for greater corporate accountability and what laws he wants to see implemented federally.

OTTAWA — The House of Commons ethics committee is calling on the health minister to explain the Public Health Agency of Canada’s collection of data from millions of mobile phones to understand travel ...

Google and Facebook are discussing plans with the White House to share collective data on people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic.

Citizen science projects engage individual volunteers or groups to observe, measure, and contribute data to scientific studies. CENS is building a collection of mobile phone and web-based tools to ...

The world’s 3 billion-plus smartphones emit the kind of data that health authorities covet during outbreaks. They show where individuals are, where they’ve been and who they might have talked to or ...