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On April 30, 2021, the Government of Ontario introduced Building a Digital Ontario, the province's new digital and data strategy, which lays the foundation for Ontario to become "the...
THE STANDARD EDUCATION TSC chief executive Nancy Macharia at the release of KCSE 2020 results in Nairobi on May 10, 2021. [Boniface Okendo,Standard] The government will launch a transparent process of biometric enrolment and validation of teachers in public schools to curb irregularities. It will entail enlisting their fingerprints, which can then allow for forensic and intelligence-led investigations in cases where examination papers are tampered with, and where cell phones and other gadgets are used to commit examination malpractices. The use of biometric validation will assist in vindic...
Waterford, Ireland / WLR Apr 23, 2021 12:32 PM Sinn Fein's David Cullinane, the party's health spokesperson, has commented on the Mental Health Commission report A local TD remains confident the Data Protection Commissioner won’t find any wrongdoing by his party over their voter database. Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald admitted this week that there were one or two minor breaches of requirements. But Waterford’s David Cullinane says there is nothing of concern in the database as it’s simply information from the electoral register. He says it’s being blown out of all proportion: ...
Schools, churches put on data protection watchlist Summary The regulations, which are part of Data Protection Act that was signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta in November 2019, set out restrictions on how personally identifiable data obtained by firms and government entities can be handled, stored and shared. Data processors or controllers will pay a certification fee of Sh250,000. Businesses will also be charged registration and annual renewal fees of between Sh1,000 and Sh20,000 depending on the number of employees, turnover and the risk of exposure of personal information. Thursday April 2...
Article content When Justin Trudeau’s Liberals turned their backs on balanced budgets during the 2015 election campaign, the strategy paid off handsomely politically. Canadians were fed up with a government so stingy that it was neglecting its core missions. Some were concerned that the dike painstakingly built by Paul Martin, as finance minister under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, to protect the country’s financial health, was being so casually lowered. But the public believed the Liberals, who promised to “run modest deficits for three years … and credibly offer a plan to balance t...