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Citizens’ data on Covid was illegally mined, says new report HEALTH & SCIENCE A man wearing PPEs looks from a balcony in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] State and private companies illegally harvested and shared Kenyans’ private data during the Covid-19 pandemic in direct breach of the Data Protection Act, 2020. This is according to a new report that details how the pandemic fuelled infringements to citizens’ privacy, freedom of expression and access to information in Kenya and Uganda over the past year.  The report says authorities including the National Intelligence Service and the...

Federal government looks to “punch our way out of the COVID recession” with #Budget2021 The federal government has published its Budget 2021, which focuses on addressing the third wave of the pandemic and economic recovery. The commitments include targeted funding towards the tech and innovation sector as a way to support that recovery. The Government of Canada called the budget “a plan to bridge Canadians and Canadian businesses through the crisis and towards a robust recovery.” Proposals include extending business and income support measures through to the fall and i...

PN says information database targeted in cyber-attack Nationalist Party information technology systems and information database targeted in cyber attack, party says 19 April 2021, 9:48pm by Karl Azzopardi Zammit Dimech said the attack was aimed at the party’s information technology systems and information databases.  All necessary measures have been taken to minimise the attack’s impact. The police and the Data Commissioner have been informed of the attack and have begun their investigations.  

Canadian budget leads with digital tax and IT investments By Josh Lowe on 20/04/2021 Canada’s new digital investments are designed to boost online public services and help businesses adapt to the digital world. Picture by Benoit Rochon Canada has announced plans for a digital sector tax and new funds for civil service IT projects, publishing a federal budget containing a swathe of announcements on technology initiatives for the private and public sectors. Headline policies in the budget, unveiled on Monday, include the levying of a Digital Services Tax targeting “services that rely on dat...

Coffee Briefings deliver our entire audience –  the IT administrators and channel partners as well as the C-Suite – a complete news package with the latest headlines, interviews, and social media chatter. These briefings drop on Tuesday mornings. Today’s Coffee Briefing Listen to the latest episode of Hashtag Trending The massive Rogers and Fido outage leaves customers without precious data nationwide, Elon Musk says Starlink should be fully mobile by the end of 2021, and NASA successfully flies a helicopter on Mars. Listen to the latest episode of Cyber Security Today A 10-year pri...