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Federal government rethinking use of controversial polygraph test
The federal government is reviewing its use of so-called lie detector tests in security screenings as a new report called out the controversial practice.
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Watchdog report says Treasury Board could not name any policy rationale for the use of this tool
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Polygraph tests are supposed to indicate whether someone is lying based on physiological responses.(Getty Images)
Is Canadian Law Better Equipped to Handle Disinformation?
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. (Joanne Clifford, https://tinyurl.com/y2xaoraf; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)
On Oct. 13, before President Trump with only falsehoods as ammunition began live-tweeting his attempt to overturn an election he lost, Emily Bazelon published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled, “Free Speech Will Save Our Democracy: The First Amendment in the Age of Disinformation.” In this piece, Bazelon presents and questions the American free speech jurisprudence, according to which false statements and hurtful speech on public issues are presumptively protected by the First Amendment because “the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas.” She wonders if the time has come for Americans to revisit the way they envision free speech.
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Threat actors accessed Pfizer vaccine documentation submitted to EU regulators in the latest cyberattack trying to profit off pandemic suffering.
Criminals haven’t given up on stealing COVID-19 vaccine data. Yet another cyberattack has been launched this time, threat actors were able to break into the European Medicines Agency (EMA) server and access documentation about the vaccine candidate from Pfizer and BioNTech.
The breach is just another in a series of particularly cruel efforts by malicious actors to capitalize on the global desperation and suffering as COVID-19 spreads and death tolls mount.
The EMA, Pfizer and BioNTech have acknowledged the attack but are not releasing any details while the matter is investigated.