Australians could soon be given the right to ask large companies to destroy their personal information. The "right to be forgotten" is one of the changes being proposed by the federal government to s...

In recent years, church authorities have increasingly received requests from baptized individuals wishing to formalize their decision to leave the...

To mark United Nations’ International Youth Day, the IPC released its insights report from Growing Up Online: Youth Perspectives on Digital Rights, Risks, and Responsibilities, an event spearheaded by...

Canada's privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations.

A group of corporate power brokers is responsible for the democratic collapse we are witnessing on a global scale. Through their algorithms, they have managed to trap citizens in a mire of information...

For organizations, the challenge isn’t just whether to forget, but how to do it responsibly by going beyond compliance and designing systems with care and intention.

German actress and model Nastassja Kinski has won a legal battle: to have a film in which she appears at age 13 removed.

After acquittal, search results can punish for life; the Delhi High Court frames a calibrated remedy.

As more sex workers quit the industry, some are having to navigate tough questions around consent and the “afterlife” of work they no longer want to be associated with.

Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation

The right to be forgotten is becoming increasingly difficult to enforce in practice for genomic data trained on Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. O

Roughly 620,000 people in the Netherlands aged 15 and older have faced online threats or intimidation at least once. Now, a growing wave of cyberbullying among young people has prompted insurer Univé ...

The Cirrus Institute for AI and Data Governance's Nicoletta Kolpakov explores the growing field of research known as machine unlearning: methods that aim to make a large language model forget specific...

Regulators in Italy blocked Amazon’s use of sensitive employee data, citing excessive surveillance and retention practices that violated EU privacy rules governing workplace information.

The human right to be forgotten is essential to protecting privacy and agency.

The impugned directions, issued on the basis of a purported “right to be forgotten”, had the effect of erasing publicly accessible court records and news reports from the digital public domain.

Meta has patented AI to manage accounts of deceased users, creating digital personas that continue posting and interacting after death.

Poles are increasingly asking for online content about them to be removed from search results, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported on Monday, citing figures from Google.

As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...

Digital surveillance refers to the use of technology to monitor, intercept, collect, and analyze digital communications and metadata.

Türkiye’s parliamentary subcommittee on children’s rights has called for legal recognition of the “right to be forgotten” to protect children’s privacy in the digital age, warning that parents’ social...

Danai Nhando discusses how the PowerSchool breach, which exposed 62M student records, reveals systemic edtech data governance failures.

A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."

An advocate says homeowners’ names were revealed, creating potential safety risks.

Neural networks cannot extract individual data without rolling back the entire model, which undermines competitive advantage. Organizations must understand their

A ruling forbidding media from naming a convicted criminal who defrauded a savings scheme does not mean that people will cease judging him

On August 27, 2025, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the OPC), Canada’s federal privacy regulator, determined that in certain circumstances, search results for an individual’s name ca...

Can inaccurate personal data produced by AI be deleted? As the right of erasure evolves in the AI era, legal and technical challenges are growing.

An investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner reveals that TikTok has been collecting sensitive data from children and using that information to send them targeted ads and tailored content — even ...

More than one million people in Ontario have a criminal record. For many, the record causes barriers when it comes to finding meaningful work. An organization known for advocating for the betterment o...

Nepal’s Gen Z protesters have chosen their next interim Prime Minister through a vote conducted on the online platform Discord, following the resignation of

As ChatGPT seeks legal rights, users face a new reality: AI remembers everything. The right to be forgotten may be the last freedom we truly control.

As AI takes over our memory, are we losing ourselves? From birthday reminders to GPS navigation, digital tools now store what we once held in our minds. This shift promises cognitive freedom but threa...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure.

The federal parties want to be exempt from any oversight of their use of personal information, while putting strict rules on everyone else

Public posts and users' interactions will soon feed Meta AI training

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The Trump administration has reminded many Canadians about the importance of other trading partners. Many have turned their attention to Europe