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

A recent MIT Technology Review article details the efforts of a big data analytics company named Cambridge Analytica, which claims to use behavioral science insights in helping political candidates ...

Google and Facebook are considering efforts to analyze the collective movements of millions of users to determine how the deadly novel coronavirus is spreading across the US, and to gauge the ...

Data is everywhere, collected and used in increasingly large quantities by individuals and organizations. Those who have conducted research may be familiar with the Belmont Report, but ethical data ...

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 ...