About Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
by Lee Rickwood
Interactive multimedia stories of Toronto’s musical legacy and the powerful social impact that music has had over the years are presented in 35 individual segments at the new Sounds Like Toronto website.
by Lee Rickwood
Data ethics will be the new currency as public protection and privacy regulation become the guidelines for digital decision-making in 2021.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.