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Chinese social media giant flouting Canadian election law
Chinese social media giant WeChat is flouting Canada's new elections rules, allowing election ads to run without setting up a digital ad registry as required by law, CBC News has learned.
Foreign interference in elections hard to investigate, prosecute: Côté
The biggest danger to Canada's federal election is the prospect of foreign interference, but it is hard to investigate and tough to lay charges, says the man charged with policing the election.
Ortis case linked to Vancouver firm that supplied secure cellphones to international criminals
The investigation into top RCMP official Cameron Ortis began with a shadowy Vancouver-based company and a multimillion-dollar business that helped drug traffickers and money launderers around the world.
Professor 'shocked' at former student's arrest on security charges
A university professor who supervised the PhD studies of a senior Canadian security official arrested under the Security of Information Act says he is shocked by the charges against his former student.
House of Commons cuts links to MPs' websites
The House of Commons has cut its links to the websites of all 334 outgoing members of Parliament after it discovered the websites of some MPs were being used to campaign for re-election.
House of Commons to review MPs' websites
The House of Commons is going to review the websites of all MPs after an investigation by CBC News revealed that dozens of them have trackers that can be used to target advertising to people who have visited the site.
Dozens of MPs' websites can track visitors for targeted campaign ads
Nearly a third of MPs have trackers embedded on their official websites that could allow them to target visitors with campaign ads, an investigation by CBC News has revealed.
Twitter pilot project will allow Canadians to hide replies to posts — to a point
Twitter is launching a pilot feature in Canada that will allow you to hide some responses to your tweets unless readers click on a feature to reveal them.
Who authorized that election ad? Under new rules website owners must know before they display
Canadians are facing a bewildering patchwork of approaches to online election ads as websites across the country struggle to adapt to new federal elections rules that come into effect today.
Twitter banning political ads in Canada until election campaign
Online giant Twitter has decided to ban political ads in Canada in the lead-up to the October federal election.
Small, medium-sized financial firms vulnerable to cyberattacks, says report
Canada's small and medium-sized financial firms could be vulnerable to the constant barrage of cyberattacks aimed at Canadian businesses, says the House of Commons public safety committee.
Human rights commissions targeting Facebook over job ads
The Canadian and Ontario human rights commissions have taken the exceptional step of joining forces to urge Facebook to stop Canadian employers from being able to post job ads that discriminate against some workers on the basis of age. It's the first step in a series of actions that could make its way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Canada should regulate social media firms to protect election, says international group
The federal government should regulate social media giants to better protect the next election from attempts at foreign disruption, a blue-ribbon international group will say next week.
Poll finds 90% of Canadians have fallen for fake news
Ninety per cent of Canadians say they have fallen for fake news online, with many listing Facebook as the most common source of misleading reports, according to a new international public opinion poll.
Facebook rolls out high-tech ad registry with a low-tech twist
Facebook is rolling out its Canadian political ad registry today with a low-tech twist — a bid to prevent people based outside of Canada from running ads in the upcoming federal election.