Mornings With Mark

A lot going on around a central theme of data privacy. Australia passes a new law that enables the government to force companies to help law enforcement access data...even if it means breaking systems. This law passed despite strong opposition from technology companies, security experts, and others. At the same time, Huawei's CFO was arrested transiting through Canada...apparently for violating US sanctions. Another step towards pushing Huawei equipment out of western networks for rumoured backdoors. On a positive swing, Apple continues to advance the idea of "differential privacy' with a new research paper. This is an area to watch. Continuing to the positive, the Government of Canada published new guidelines around IT systems. They are defaulting to open code and open data formats. Lot's to think about...