@jerry Thanks for everything you do! No rush

@jerry is it just me or are images not loading on books.infosec.exchange?

@EdwinG I plead Section 11(c)

of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Today I learned from @milamiceli, that Canadian telecom, Telus, has a subsidiary called Telus Digital that does contract work such as content moderation for Facebook

Three employees working for Telus in Germany are anonymously speaking out about the poor working conditions, poor support for employees, and poor wages for the emotionally draining work https://dair-community.social/@milamiceli/113187526033696804

Canada’s Competition Tribunla lays down its largest ever fine of $38.9M. Cineplex has revived the fine for drip pricing, where they do not disclose a $1.50 per ticket online booking fee until the very end of checkout

Drip pricing is a rampant problem in Canada, from food delivery to airline tickets. The Tribunal seems to be hoping this shows companies they are serious about enforcement and it’s time to start complying with the June 2022 updates to the Competition Act #CdnPoli

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/cineplex-ordered-to-pay-38-9m-by-competition-tribunal-in-ticket-fee-case-1.7049445

@AlisonCreekside @llebrun I’m still surprised to see so many people will say “the American toxicity is leaking up into Canada”… no no, we have plenty of our own and it flows both ways across the border

@MrBerard @carkner Not exactly what you’re looking for, but @chris has an open letter urging Parliament of Canada to provide a federated social media platform for its members. Many of the arguments seem applicable to academic & professional organizations as well.

https://chrisalemany.ca/2024/05/31/open-letter-to-parliament-of-canada-adopt-open-services-for-social-communications/

Tim Groves & Martin Lukacs at The Breach are reporting that Awz Ventures, led by former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is the main investor in Corsight, the facial recognition company the New York Times reported is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza

https://breachmedia.ca/stephen-harpers-firm-behind-spy-tech-israel-is-using-to-target-gazans/

A new pilot program from Vision Zero Vancouver to help pedestrians safely cross the street in #Vancouver

I remember a @notjustbikes video about some wild ideas for safe pedestrian crossings in America, this takes it one step further

Use of facial recognition in vending machines at University of Waterloo to collect age & gender data. The manufacturer says the machines are GDPR complaint… but this is in Canada. Who is even liable for this? Machines manufactured by Invenda, owned by Mars, fulfilled by Adaria Vending Services Limited, housed on Waterloo campus. Who is on the hook for following privacy law?

The precedent was already set in the Cadillac Fairview case that just because the images are deleted after analysis, does not mean consent isn’t required - however that case also set the precedent that there is no punishment for doing this, just say “oops, sorry” and move on #CdnTech #CdnPoli #Privacy #GDPR

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/facial-recognition-error-message-on-vending-machine-sparks-concern-at-university-of-waterloo-1.6779835

@davidpierce One of my favourite things to come from 2023 is the creation of @404mediaco

Their podcast is now one of my favourites to listen to every week & it was an easy decision to pay for a subscription to get access to their bonus content

British Columbia is looking to Quebec, New York, and California; preparing a crack-down on short-term rentals #AirBnB #VRBO

A proposed Act would limit short-term rentals to principal residences, so investors with multiple condos or single-family homes will have to instead put them in the long-term rental market #BCpoli

#Victoria, #Vancouver, & #Kelowna already have rules like this, but it’s estimated almost 50% of listings are breaking bylaws & municipalities just can’t keep up

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-short-term-rental-legislation

Starting Nov. 1, job postings in British Columbia (or open to BC residents) will be required to include the expected pay range

As of right now, the Province doesn’t have any rules on how large the range can be, so we’ll see how that goes & if they’ll have to introduce that later

You also cannot be punished in any way for discussing pay with your coworkers #BCPoli #CdnPoli

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/gender-equity/pay-transparency-laws-in-bc

@neurovagrant Just looked into this because you pointed it out and seemed interesting. Bernstein is pointing out a math error that overestimated the strength of Kyber-512 when it is in fact weaker than AES-128, but with the corrected math Kyber-768 and Kyber-1024 are still stronger than AES-128, they just come with key size trade-offs that are much worse than Kyber alternatives

Signal has listed Kyber-1024 in their white paper, meaning they’ve already accepted the size-security trade-off to maximize security, so this shouldn’t directly effect their plans (I even checked the Wayback Machine & they listed Kyber-1024 from the start)

Regardless, this does pour cold water on PQ in general & diminishes trust in the NIST standards process, which could effect long-term support for Kyber now

https://signal.org/docs/specifications/pqxdh/#pqxdh-parameters

@evan @corbin I would say @TechDesk is a must follow. Human curated feed of tech stories

They also have @ScienceDesk, @CultureDesk, @NewsDesk, and @ArtPhotosDesk

Just watched The Ashley Madison Affair on Hulu about the 2015 data breach so I could see @briankrebs on TV, got the bonus of @troyhunt & @josephcox on there too!

Things I learned: 1) Ashley Madison is a Canadian company, 2) Ashley Madison is still around & doing better than ever, 3) former CEO Noel Bidderman, who stepped down after the breach, is now working with WonderFi - one of Canada’s largest crypto companies that has been buying up all the other crypto exchanges in Canada and is financially backed by Kevin O’Leary

@Wolven @neurovagrant For Canadians, you also have the right to withdraw consent at any time & Twitter should have a process for this. If the process is unreasonable or broken, you can file a complaint. Twitter also should’ve obtained consent “when making significant changes to privacy practices”. #PIPEDA

PIPEDA & Consent https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personal-information-protection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/p_principle/principles/p_consent/

File a privacy complaint https://priv.gc.ca/en/report-a-concern/file-a-formal-privacy-complaint/file-a-complaint-about-a-business/

@chris The Competition Act needs immediate reform, things are clearly broken if this is the response to the Commissioner trying to actually act in citizens’ interest

The public opinion on Rogers-Shaw was overwhelmingly against & yet they managed to push it through #FreeBoswell

A little food for thought that Nora Loreto pointed out on #Canadaland this week

“Treasury Board President Anita Anand is tasking federal cabinet ministers with finding $15.4 billion in government spending cuts by a deadline of Oct. 2.” #CdnPoli
https://globalnews.ca/news/9898633/government-spending-cuts-ministers-anand/

“The deal between Stellantis and LG Energy Solutions to continue construction on the NextStar electric vehicle (EV) battery plant could be worth up to $15 billion in tax breaks for the project, the province said Wednesday night.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/deal-struck-battery-plant-windsor-stellantis-lg-solution-1.6861649

“Canada has promised Volkswagen up to $13 billion in subsidies to secure the automaker’s first battery plant outside of Europe.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/9641259/volkswagen-ev-plant-canada-ontario/

@parismarx & Jacob Silverman talk about Rumble, “this middling start-up that no one really knows about that’s just this Canadian video start-up that shows skateboarding videos and stuff […] eventually over the next couple years it started getting folded in to all these Republican personalities media strategies.” https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/110826025034752460