Miscellaneous stats, facts and numbers about the privacy, data and AI ecosystems.
Number of cyber-attacks and nation state attacks experienced by Microsoft customers every day – 600 million
Percentage of 138 exploited security vulnerabilities disclosed in 2023 determined by Mandiant researchers to be “zero day” vulnerabilities (i.e. vulnerabilities that were exploited by threat actors before the software developers had built a fix) – 70
Percentage of all ransom payment funding paid by organizations surveyed by Sophos that is sourced from insurance providers – 23
Percentage of cases of ransom payments paid by organizations surveyed by Sophos where the insurance provider covered the whole amount of the ransom payment – 1
Percentage of the 120 executives surveyed at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting on Cybersecurity who agreed that the cyber security resilience “inequity” between large organizations and SMEs requires “urgent action” – 90
Total spending on recovery from cyber security incidents by Canadian businesses surveyed by Statistics Canada in 2021– $600 million
Total spending on recovery from cyber security incidents in Canadian businesses surveyed by Statistics Canada in 2023 – $1.2 billion
Number of organizations who filed biometric database/bank declarations with the Quebec Commission d’accès à l’information (the “CAI”) in the 2023-2024 fiscal year – 124
Number of Canadian Federal, provincial and municipal private, health and public sector privacy related laws – 39
The required regularity with which the Federal Parliament is mandated under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) to conduct a review and report on recommended changes to the statute – every 5 years
Percentage of annual reports submitted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to Parliament since 2007 that have included a call to action emphasizing the importance of modernizing PIPEDA – 100
Number of times since January 1, 2001, the date PIPEDA came into force, that Parliament has conducted a review of PIPEDA – 2
The number of times PIPEDA has been materially amended since January 1, 2001 – 1
Percentage of Canadians and American surveyed for a TELUS Data & Trust Survey that want AI development conducted in consultation with “everyday people, not just academics or technologists” – 74
Percentage of American and Canadian respondents to a TELUS Data & Trust survey who consider a company’s reputation for data handling important when deciding whether to do so business with them – 88 (Americans) and 87 (Canadians)
Percentage of respondents to the ISACA “Privacy in Practice” 2024 survey who believe that their board of directors view the company enterprise privacy program as a competitive advantage – 4
Number of standards published by the International Standards Organization (ISO) specifically relating to artificial intelligence – 16
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Compiled by Adam Kardash, with contributions from Naomi Chernos, Iman Jaffari and Julia Mogus
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