Privacy 101
This annual event, celebrated on January 28th, aims to raise awareness about the importance of protecting personal information.
What is Data Privacy Day?
This slippery security threat is not actually malware. It is a method of using fake emails to scam people for money.
What is a Phish?
In response to Canada's Online News Act (2023), which requires tech platforms to pay publishers for news links, this group banned Canadian news content.
Who is Meta (Facebook and Instagram)?
This hospital code is used when there is a loss of key infrastructure due to a ransomware attack.
What is a Code Grey?
This term refers to any information that can be used to identify an individual, such as a name, address, or social security number.
What is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)? or Personal Information (PI)?
This practice involves limiting access to patient information to only those healthcare professionals who need it to perform their duties.
What is role-based access control?
This Ontario Act protects the privacy of personal information while providing individuals with a right of access to their own information.
What is the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)?
An affiliate of this ransomware gang issued an apology for they cyber attack against SickKids in December 2022.
Who is LockBit
There was a tremendous, YUGE, effort to ban this platform in the US in 2020.
What is TikTok?
This office is responsible for overseeing the application of Ontario's access and privacy laws.
What is the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario?
In December 2024, the OPP laid charges on three former hospital employees for offences under this Act.
What is the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)?
his type of encryption is used to protect patient data both in transit and at rest.
What is end-to-end encryption?
This term refers to the practice of collecting and analyzing data from social media profiles without the user's consent.
What is social media scraping?