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We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices - Marketplace investigation recorded technicians peeping on personal photos, browser history

Be warned!

When you need to drop off your tech devices for a repair, how confident are you that they won't be snooped on?

CBC's Marketplace took smartphones and laptops to repair stores across Ontario — including large chains Best Buy and Mobile Klinik — and found that in more than half of the documented cases, technicians accessed intimate photos and private information not relevant to the repair.

Marketplace dropped off devices at 20 stores, ranging from small independent shops to medium-sized chains to larger national chains, after installing monitoring software on the devices. In total, 16 stores were recorded. (At four stores, the tracking software didn't log anything, or the stores didn't appear to turn the devices on.)

Technicians at nine stores accessed private data, including one technician who not only viewed photos but copied them onto a USB key.

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We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices | CBC News

CBC's Marketplace took smartphones and laptops to tech repair stores across Ontario — including large chains Best Buy and Mobile Klinik in a snooping test — and found that in more than half of the documented cases, technicians accessed intimate...

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The CIA and Fake News (1986) CBC/Radio-Canada - Invidious

From 1986 Fifth Estate host Eric Malling investigates the covert falsification of news reports by CIA propagandists attempting to influence public perception of the world. Former CIA officer John Stockwell explains how a CIA task force wrote misleading news releases all over the world which were picked up by international media organizations. #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation #usa #cia #1980s #history #cbc #fifthestate #johnstockwell #media #propaganda ">

The CIA and Fake News in 1980s (1986) - The Fifth Estate

From 1986 Fifth Estate host Eric Malling investigates the covert falsification of news reports by CIA propagandists attempting to influence public perception of the world. Former CIA officer John Stockwell explains how a CIA task force wrote...

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Health Canada approves Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine

Health Canada has approved Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine for all Canadians who are six months of age and older — while two other options for fall shots remain in the regulatory pipeline.

Federal officials announced the approval on Tuesday morning, more than two months after Moderna submitted its new formulation. The mRNA-based shot is monovalent, targeting just the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant, which means the vaccine is more tailored to the virus strains currently circulating.

The company told CBC News that its first newly approved doses should arrive in Canada "by tomorrow" and will continue to arrive over the course of the month, while Canadian officials expect deliveries to the provinces will start in October.

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Health Canada approves Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine | CBC News

Health Canada has approved Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine for all Canadians who are six months of age or older.

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What to know about EG.5, the latest Omicron subvariant in Canada

A new coronavirus subvariant on the rise in some parts of the world has also been circulating in Canada since at least May, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

While experts say this latest strain, EG.5, appears to be more infectious and able to sneak past our immune defences, there's also not much evidence to suggest that it causes more severe illness.

"It's something to certainly keep a close eye on, but I'm not significantly worried about it at this point," said Dr. Syra Madad, an epidemiologist at the Harvard Belfer Center.

EG.5 subvariants are predicted to have made up 36 per cent of cases in Canada between July 30 to Aug. 5, according to an email the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) shared with CBC News.

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What to know about EG.5, the latest Omicron subvariant in Canada | CBC News

A new coronavirus subvariant on the rise in some parts of the world is an example of how the virus will continue to evolve, some experts say. But while this latest coronavirus strain, EG.5, appears to be more infectious and able to sneak past our...

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Threads has lost half its users since launch, Zuckerberg tells staff

Meta Platforms executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new social media app Threads, after it lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday.

Retention of users on the text-based app was better than executives had expected, although it was "not perfect," said Zuckerberg, speaking at an internal company town hall, the audio of which was heard by Reuters.

"Obviously, if you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We're not there yet."

Zuckerberg said he considered the drop-off "normal" and expected retention to grow as the company adds more features to the app, including a desktop version and search functionality.

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Threads has lost half its users since launch, Zuckerberg tells staff | CBC News

Meta Platforms executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new social media app Threads, after it lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday.

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Austrian police say they foiled a planned attack on Vienna's Pride parade

Austrian authorities said Sunday they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna's Pride parade by three young men who had allegedly sympathized with the extremist Islamic State group.

The head of Austria's domestic intelligence service told reporters that the suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested before the start of Saturday's Pride parade, which was attended by around 300,000 people, public broadcaster ORF reported.
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The three suspects, Austrian citizens of Bosnian and Chechen origin whose identities were not further revealed, had radicalized online and sympathized with the Islamic State group
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The trio was arrested before the start of the parade by Austria's Cobra special forces.

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Austrian police say they foiled a planned attack on Vienna's Pride parade | CBC News

The head of Austria's domestic intelligence service told reporters that the suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested before the start of Saturday's Pride parade, which was attended by around 300,000 people, public broadcaster ORF reported.

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Ex-TikTok executive says Chinese government used app to locate, identify Hong Kong protesters

A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.

Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for ByteDance in the United States, says those same people had access to U.S. user data, an accusation that the company denies.

Yu, who worked for the company in 2018, made the allegations in a recent filing for a wrongful dismissal case filed in May in the San Francisco Superior Court. In the documents submitted to the court, he said ByteDance had a "superuser credential" — also known as a "god credential" — that enabled a special committee of Chinese Communist Party members stationed at the company to view all data collected by ByteDance, including those of U.S. users.

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Ex-TikTok executive says Chinese government used app to locate, identify Hong Kong protesters | CBC News

A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.

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WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it's no longer a global emergency

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least seven million people worldwide.

WHO said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn't come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The UN health agency says that thousands of people are still dying from the virus every week.

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WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it's no longer a global emergency | CBC News

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at...

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Fireworks could be banned in Mont-Tremblant, Que., starting in April

Deputy mayor compares them to little chemical bombs harmful to nature

The Association québécoise de la lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique, an organization fighting air pollution, has praised the move. The organization's president, André Bélisle, hopes other jurisdictions will follow suit.

"Sulphur particles are emitted that can be bothersome for people particularly children, seniors and people with respiratory or cardiac conditions," he says about the aftermath of a firework explosion.

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Fireworks could be banned in Mont-Tremblant, Que., starting in April | CBC News

The municipality of Mont-Tremblant in the Laurentians is preparing to ban all fireworks on its territory, making it among the first in Quebec to do so, according to the Union des municipalités du Québec. 

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COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect newborns, Canadian study suggests

Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy passes along protection against infection and hospitalization to newborns, a Canadian study suggests.

The research, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Wednesday evening, found that protection against COVID-19 for infants was most effective when mothers got their second or third dose of mRNA vaccine during pregnancy.

A booster shot during pregnancy bolstered protection against the Omicron variant in particular, said the study authors from the Canadian Immunization Research Network.

Canadian infectious diseases specialists, obstetrician-gynecologists and immunologists have long urged pregnant people to stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations — including boosters — because they are at higher risk of serious illness if they become infected.

That in turn can harm the fetus, they say.

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COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect newborns, Canadian study suggests | CBC News

Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy passes along protection against infection and hospitalization to newborns, a Canadian study says.

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Canada: COVID-19 misinformation cost at least 2,800 lives and $300M, new report says

The spread of COVID-19 misinformation in Canada cost at least 2,800 lives and $300 million in hospital expenses over nine months of the pandemic, according to estimates in a new report out Thursday.

The report — released by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), an independent research organization that receives federal funding — examined how misinformation affected COVID infections, hospitalizations and deaths between March and November of 2021.

The authors suggest that misinformation contributed to vaccine hesitancy for 2.3 million Canadians. Had more people been willing to roll up their sleeves when a vaccine was first available to them, Canada could have seen roughly 200,000 fewer COVID cases and 13,000 fewer hospitalizations, the report says.

Alex Himelfarb, chair of the expert panel that wrote the report, said that its estimates are very conservative because it only examined a nine-month period of the pandemic.

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COVID-19 misinformation cost at least 2,800 lives and $300M, new report says | CBC News

The spread of COVID-19 misinformation in Canada cost at least 2,800 lives and $300 million in hospital expenses over nine months of the pandemic, according to estimates in a new report out Thursday.

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As new Omicron subvariant spreads, WHO backs mask wearing on long flights

Countries should consider recommending passengers wear masks on long-haul flights to counter the latest Omicron subvariant given its rapid spread in the United States, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday.

In Europe, the XBB.1.5 subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is being detected in small but growing numbers, WHO/Europe officials said at a press briefing.

Passengers should be advised to wear masks in high-risk settings such as long-haul flights, said WHO's senior emergency officer for Europe, Catherine Smallwood, adding: "This should be a recommendation issued to passengers arriving from anywhere where there is widespread COVID-19 transmission."

XBB.1.5 — the most transmissible Omicron subvariant that has been detected so far — accounted for 27.6 per cent of COVID-19 cases in the United States for the week ending Jan. 7, U.S. health officials have said.

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As new Omicron subvariant spreads, WHO backs mask wearing on long flights | CBC News

Countries should consider recommending passengers wear masks on long-haul flights to counter the latest Omicron subvariant given its rapid spread in the United States, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday.

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