Accessibility Technology Opens Doors for People, Brings Opportunity to Business
by Lee Rickwood
Accessibility technologies are helping developers and designers create public spaces that are easily navigable for everyone.
Author Archives: Lee Rickwood
Are You GDPR Compliant? Good, Because More New Data Protection Regs are Coming
By Lee Rickwood
May 25 was the date the General Data Protection Regulation came into effect in the European Union; any company or corporation that collects or stores the private data of European citizens must comply with the GDPR. That includes Canadian companies, be they start-up or multi-national: any company that collects data on an EU citizen must comply with the new rules. Stiff fines are the alternative.
Smartphone Surveillance and IMSI Catchers: Which Police Force, Which Spy Service, Uses StingRays?
by Lee Rickwood
The intrusive nature of cellphone surveillance and the now-confirmed use of IMSI catchers by public and private agencies, poses an “insidious threat” to our privacy, according to Canadian tech researchers.
Facial Recognition Use Growing: Accurate or Not, Hackable or Not
by Lee Rickwood
Leading facial recognition tools, used for identification, authentication and crime detection among other applications, are being developed here in Canada. So, too, ways to spoof or hack such systems.
U.S. Tech Experts Lead Open Government Plans in Canada
by Lee Rickwood
Major government agencies in Canada are hiring top U.S. tech experts to lead significant open government projects and digital initiatives in this country, and the door’s still open.
Sports Scores, Stats and Big Data Analytics Bring Whole New Ballgame
by Lee Rickwood
There’s no final score in the match-up between sports purists and sabermetric stat heads, but one group may have all the results they could want.
Big data analysts.
Touchscreens, Walls, Skin Surfaces – New Interfaces for Human Computer Interaction
by Lee Rickwood
Wherever human-computer interaction takes place, researchers and product specialists want to determine just how efficient or economical that contact is.
Rechargeable Solar Lanterns, Off-Grid Energy Storage Systems Donated by Panasonic
by Lee Rickwood
The project is making huge inroads in those faraway regions where we might expect power to be scarce or even unavailable, but it should be with some surprise if not embarrassment that the sustainable development targets could be here in Canada.