A Career in Technology Policy: How to Get Started and What to Expect Technology policy sits at the intersection of law, technology, and politics. This post describes ways of entering the field, developing relevant skills, and building a sustainable career.

For students and early-career professionals trying to understand technology policy: some thoughts on how to enter the field, what skills matter, and how the work tends to unfold over time.

Link: christopher-parsons.com/2026/04/10/a...

#careers #techpolicy #cyberpolicy

A Career in Technology Policy: How to Get Started and What to Expect Technology policy sits at the intersection of law, technology, and politics. This post describes ways of entering the field, developing relevant skills, and building a sustainable career.

For students and early-career professionals trying to understand technology policy: some thoughts on how to enter the field, what skills matter, and how the work tends to unfold over time.

Link: christopher-parsons.com/2026/04/10/a...

#careers #techpolicy #cyberpolicy

Hours after Microsoft reveals that Russian hackers have been breaking into poorly secured routers & hijacking DNS requests (sometimes to collect Outlook data) www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi... DOJ says it has kicked those Russians out of the US routers they hacked: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

CSE Summaries In 2013, journalists began revealing secrets associated with members of the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance. These secrets were disclosed by Edward Snowden, a US intelligence contractor. The…

I haven’t looked all over my online repo for all examples, but there are online assessments of risks posted as well as co-created TS/SI presentation decks.

As example see “Synergising Network Analysis Tradecraft: Network Tradecraft Advancement Team (NTAT)” at christopher-parsons.com/resources/th...

In summary, these changes would create new risks, reduce transparency, and undermine independent oversight — key foundations of a healthy democracy.

Our submission warned that the proposals would significantly limit public access to government records held by the premier, cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants, and political staff, while also weakening privacy protections for Ontarians.

Yesterday, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario provided our comments to the legislature on Bill 97, which you can find at www.ipc.on.ca/en/resources...

#foi #privacy #transparency #ONpoli

In summary, these changes would create new risks, reduce transparency, and undermine independent oversight — key foundations of a healthy democracy.

Our submission warned that the proposals would significantly limit public access to government records held by the premier, cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants, and political staff, while also weakening privacy protections for Ontarians.

Yesterday, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario provided our comments to the legislature on Bill 97, which you can find at www.ipc.on.ca/en/resources...

#foi #privacy #transparency #ONpoli

Commissioner Patricia Kosseim has released an updated statement addressing the Government of Ontario’s shifting justifications for their proposal to reduce Ontarians’ transparency rights.

Full statement: www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-cen...

#Privacy #AccessToInformation #FIPPA #Transparency #PublicPolicy

Looking forward to seeing how this unfolds, though a tiny bit disappointed it’s not a live podcast edition with us watching you work on this with bated breath :P

Opinion: Ontario steps back into the information dark ages The Ford government’s efforts to ‘modernize’ the province’s freedom of information laws just eviscerates public accountability

Last week, the Ontario government announced sweeping changes to Ontario’s access and privacy laws. The Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is warning that these changes risk taking us back to the information dark ages.

🔗 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

#privacylaw #foi #privacy #transparency

Read the full statement here: www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-cen...

In a new statement, Commissioner Patricia Kosseim warns that proposed changes to Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act would seriously weaken privacy protections, transparency, reduce independent oversight and put Ontarians’ personal information at greater risk.

ON 🇨🇦 Premier Doug Ford is scaling back access to information b/c he's worried "the communist Chinese" will request his cellphone records

@stephaniecarvin.bsky.social and I splashed some "that's ridiculous" cold water on logic

(More likely he's hiding something)

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Today, the Government of Ontario announced forthcoming amendments to Ontario’s privacy and access laws.

You can find the statement from Cssr Kosseim about these proposals at: www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-cen...

#privacy #privacylaw #FOI

Might have to drown her sorrows in….good whiskey.

(Sorry to hear about the mishap!)

USENIX Security '26 Enigma Track Call for Participation USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others to share and explore the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

USENIX Enigma has published its CFP for 2026: www.usenix.org/conference/u...

Submissions are due March 31, 2026. Looking forward to seeing many of you this year.

My forthcoming book on "The DGSE" is now available for pre-order through Georgetown University Press: press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-DGSE

Today the Ontario IPC and OHRC jointly released our AI Principles. They are designed to help orgs develop, deploy, and use AI systems in ways that maintain the public trust while respecting privacy and upholding human rights.

Read the Joint IPC-OHRC AI Principles at: www.ipc.on.ca/en/resources...

Today the Ontario IPC and OHRC jointly released our AI Principles. They are designed to help orgs develop, deploy, and use AI systems in ways that maintain the public trust while respecting privacy and upholding human rights.

Read the Joint IPC-OHRC AI Principles at: www.ipc.on.ca/en/resources...

Former Ford government staffer challenges watchdog order for Greenbelt interview under oath | Globalnews.ca Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner has been trying to compel a former senior government staffer to turn over personal emails related to the Greenbelt decision-making.

NEW: A former staffer at the centre of the Greenbelt scandal is taking Ontario’s transparency watchdog to court. He’s fighting a summons to be interviewed under oath over his use of personal emails for government work. #OnPoli

globalnews.ca/news/1162160...

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and th...

PM Carney’s speech at Davos is surprisingly direct in articulating his — and the Canadian government’s — views on the current state of global geopolitics and their implications.

Agree or not, it’s refreshing to see this kind of clarity and candour from senior leaders.

www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US, Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by roughly a dozen firms from the U.S. and Israel due to national security concerns, two people briefed on th...

Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say – Reuters: ‘Chinese authorities expressed concern that the software could collect and transmit confidential information abroad, said the sources’

Ontario court rules Doug Ford must turn over personal phone records | Globalnews.ca An Ontario court says it is reasonable to conclude Premier Doug Ford uses his personal cellphone to communicate and that he should make those records public.

A panel of three judges has thrown out an attempt by the province to stop the release of government calls on Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone.

globalnews.ca/news/1159745...

A notable (if unsurprising) event. These are the kinds of intel ops that we would generally expect security and intelligence agencies to undertake to better understand foreign leaders’ thinking to help inform domestic leaders’ decision-making.

I’m curious if the vulns were known to the USA or not…

Ontario Public Service has highest Copilot use in Canada, as Ford government rolls out AI | Globalnews.ca The Ontario Public Service has the highest Microsoft Copilot use in the country, according to internal government documents, and is used weekly by more than 15,000 civil servants.

NEW: The Ontario government is dipping its toe into the world of artificial intelligence, telling civil servants they can use Microsoft Copilot in their day-to-day jobs.

The OPS now have highest Copilot use in the country. #OnPoli

globalnews.ca/news/1152523...

OpenAI’s Dave Aitel talks Aardvark, economics of bug-hunting with LLMs YouTube video by Three Buddy Problem

FULL SHOW youtu.be/EwMJsU8klZ0?...

. @ciaranm.bsky.social mentioned in this The Times piece about telecom hacks. He's absolutely on the money. A large part of the problem with UK telcos is attackers knowing SNMP strings (and default ones). SNMPv2 from 1995, btw. Then using it to redirect traffic.