More dynamic solutions to privacy violations needed

As we moved online during COVID, levels of technology-facilitated gender-based violence sky-rocketed, contributing to what the United Nations has dubbed the 'shadow pandemic' of gender-based violence.

In response to the public outcry to privacy violations and other online harms, Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has announced that the federal government will be tabling legislation that will regulate online platforms in order to address some of them, writes Suzie Dunn.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUZIE DUNN

May 5, 2021

The last year has given us a lot of time to reflect on our relationship with technology and privacy. In ways never seen before, we lost a lot of our choices on how we want to interact with people. COVID-19 restrictions limited most of our communication to digital spaces. In our professional lives, w...

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