Securing Your Laptop or PC: The First Privacy Settings Everyone Should Enable
Your laptop or desktop computer is the center of your digital life—work, banking, communication, and personal files all pass through ...
Tag: Public Interest
Reporting focused on issues that affect society broadly, transparency, and the public good.
Issue Two: When an Idea Becomes Real
The first issue of Northern Overwatch is out. That sentence still feels strange to write. For a long time, this ...
Cyber Law in Canada: Who Protects You, Under What Law, and How It Actually Works
When Canadians hear the term cyber law, many assume it’s a single, clear set of rules designed to protect them ...
The Absolute Basics: What “Personal Data” Actually Is
Most Canadians hear about “personal data” every time another breach hits the news, but few know exactly what the term ...
Why U.S. Ownership of Canadian Health Data Should Alarm Every Canadian
When Canadian health data falls under foreign ownership, privacy protections don’t simply weaken — they change jurisdictions. U.S. ownership of ...
When Your Medical Data Leaks, There’s No Recall Button
The LifeLabs data breach exposed sensitive medical and personal information of millions of Canadians — data that can never be ...
Why Northern Overwatch Exists
I’ve spent most of my professional life looking at the world through technical eyes. Systems. Networks. Data flows. Permissions. Logs. ...
What Canadian ISPs Log – and For How Long
Canadian internet service providers (ISPs) collect two broad types of data: (1) customer/account data needed to set up and bill ...
Northern Overwatch is a Canadian investigative publication examining cybersecurity, privacy, surveillance, and digital power. We explain complex cyber incidents, laws, and technologies in plain English, exposing how they affect real people — and defending the right to privacy in an increasingly monitored world.
