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Privacy Tech-Know blog: Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Businesses

Privacy Tech-Know blog: Videoconferencing – Maintain your physical distance, but keep your personal information close

As Canadians continue to adapt to social distancing, many of us have turned to videoconferencing services to help keep in touch with loved ones, connect with our colleagues, maintain our fitness routines, host social events, and complete our educational activities.

Privacy Tech-Know blog: Thinking like a machine – The basics of artificial intelligence

Humans have long been captivated by the idea of machines that mimic natural life. Examples of automata – mechanical devices that move as if by their own power – date back centuries, through the middle ages and into Ancient Greece. Of course, any semblance of “intelligence” in these machines was an illusion; they were designed by their creators to do specific tasks and move in particular ways, though at times these could be quite elaborate.

Privacy Tech-Know Blog: Secret Agent 102 – Public-Key Cryptography

In a previous blog post we introduced the topic of cryptography, which is a key tool for keeping information secure and private. We used the example of a relatively simple symmetric encryption scheme where the encryption and decryption keys are the same.

Privacy Tech-Know Blog: Secret Agent 101— Basics of Cryptography

Individuals and organizations have long had a need to protect secrets from prying eyes. One way in which we protect those secrets is through the use of cryptography, from the Greek kryptós, meaning "hidden” or “secret" and graphein, meaning "writing".  Early forms of cryptography were used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.