Website Accessibility in Canada
By Yasmin Ranade
The Accessible Canada Act (Bill C-81) became law in June, and with websites in Ontario being required to meet strict accessibility criteria by 2021, the call for accessibility is gaining momentum.
Category: Business
Calls for Digital Charter of Rights Short-circuited by Canadian Election
by Lee Rickwood
Calls for increased control for Canadians over their personal data, enhanced enforcement and penalty powers for the Privacy Commissioner and long-needed updates to federal and provincial privacy laws have been made loud and clear.
Data Roaming Options for Canadians
By Christine Persaud
Canadians love to travel. We were expected to take a record number of trips – 26. 5 million – outside of the country in 2018, according to the Conference Board of Canada. And that means staying connected while we’re away, whether it’s checking in with family while we’re on a business trip, or with the neighbours or extended family back home when on vacation.
Border Guards Can Ask Travellers for Social Media Passwords, Digital Device Checks
by Lee Rickwood
The notion that protecting us from “goods” determined to be dangerous by searching individual handheld devices and not unplugging the Internet as a whole seems very limited and ineffective.
Personalized technology in Retail
By Yasmin Ranade
Shopify’s partner and developer conference, ‘Shopify Unite’ recently took place in Toronto from June 18 – 20, 2019. “ Shopify Unite is an annual conference for Shopify’s partner ecosystem of developers, agencies and freelancers around the world.
$10,000 Scholarship for LGBTQ Youth Entering STEM Studies
By Yasmin Ranade
The Stratics Networks’ LGTBQ Scholarship is funded to a maximum of $10,000. It will be awarded for the Fall 2019 academic year.
Does Data Anonymization Bring Personal Privacy Protection on Social Media or Mobile Platforms?
by Lee Rickwood
Data anonymization implies that data can no longer be traced back to an individual user because all the personal identifying information has been removed. It may not be so.
New Technologies Capture and Combine Emotion, Reality and Storytelling
be Lee Rickwood
Immersive spatialized technologies transmit ideas and messages in powerful new ways. They can make “the human experience better.”