Big Data

• Where AI can help fight climate change – and where it can’t

  Information on everything from the impacts of past extreme weather events to current soil conditions can be run through a machine that improves its analysis over time.

  Environment

  Nov 11, 2022
  
• The 5-minute shopping spree. How robots are turbo-charging your online orders

  The 'fourth' industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is all about automation, machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence. Is Canada keeping pace with the leap forward?

  Tech

  Jan 30, 2021
  
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• Taiwan used cellphone tracking, big data to contain spread of COVID-19 — should Canada do the same?

  In the early days of the outbreak, "Taiwan leveraged its national health insurance database and integrated it with its immigration and customs database to begin the creation of big data for analytics;"

  Mar 6, 2020
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• Edmonton-based company looks to big data to stay competitive

  An Edmonton-based company is looking to big data to stay competitive, partnering with with a machine learning company to become more efficient.

  Consumer

  Jan 29, 2020
• Watchdog to probe Liberals, Tories, NDP for alleged misuse of big data

  The Centre for Digital Rights flagged what it calls the large-scale misuse of big data and targeted digital advertising

  Politics

  Jan 15, 2020
• ‘Users have no idea’: Mozilla exec says Amazon Alexa recordings ‘shocked’ his family

  Alan Davidson, the vice-president of global policy, trust and security for the company that makes the Firefox browser, appeared at a Canadian committee.

  Politics

  May 29, 2019
• Privacy ombudsman offers rebuke of N.S. premier’s claim to most transparent province in Canada

  Catherine Tully took the province to task for its failure to update the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) Act.

  Politics

  Nov 14, 2018
• San Francisco turns to big data to fight homeless crisis

  The rollout, called One System, will tack every homeless person in an effort to help determine appropriate services for them.

  Tech

  Sep 1, 2018
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• Liberals open to adding sharper teeth to privacy policy rules experts call ‘a joke’

  A new proposal by the Liberals to have political parties enforce their own privacy policies is 'a joke,' experts tell Global News.

  Canada

  May 7, 2018
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• Not just Facebook: How retailers and the payments industry can track, profile you

  Canada must adopt rules that make privacy the default, Ontario's former privacy commissioner says.

  Money

  Mar 31, 2018