Tech-Enabled Smart Labels Help Fight Food Waste
by Lee Rickwood
New smart labels for food, other consumer products, even industrial processes, can be connected wirelessly to sources of power and contextual information.
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Can Tech Devices Help Us Deal with Increased COVID-19 Restrictions?
by Lee Rickwood
Canadian technologies have been developed to reduce exposures, maintain distances, prevent contagion and help document other crucial activities in the on-going fight ever-increasing COVID-19 case numbers.
App Store Privacy Nutrition Labels Feed Our Security Awareness
by Lee Rickwood
By requiring and then presenting information about an app’s data collection activities, Apple is giving us tools to protect ourselves online.
How to Protect Your Privacy Online – Even if the Law Doesn’t
by Lee Rickwood
Without tough laws to level today’s digital playing field, data privacy and security disputes can pit people against corporations (or their own governments). The legal, financial and administrative muscle the enterprise can muster far outstrips that of most individuals to protect themselves.
The Silver Bullet We Need to Stop COVID: It is Silver? Is it Copper?
by Lee Rickwood
In our fight against COVID-19, a vaccine is no silver bullet. But is silver? Is copper? Canadian tech companies are providing some answers.
New Privacy Laws Coming to Canada
by Lee Rickwood
Under the new Act, Canadians could demand that their information on social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter, be permanently deleted. And the country’s privacy commissioner could order them to comply.
Mobile App Tracks Ice Flows, Documents Climate Change, Preserves Indigenous Knowledge
They were rescued this time. That makes this particular story of how two men and their vehicle fell through the ice a happy one, but sadly, that’s not always the case. Long a hazard for the residents of Canada’s Far…
COVID Info Sites Target Youth, Young People with Social Media, Reliable Information
by Lee Rickwood
The need for effective countermeasures to fight the spread of the coronavirus, and for reliable information to fight our confusion, anxiety, or skepticism about COVID-19, is paramount.