By Lee Rickwood
Smartphone tracking strategies, some offered by Canadian companies, make use of aggregated anonymous signaling data from cellular networks that process more than 15 billion signals each day from more than 100 million devices.
by Lee Rickwood
Visual artists, computer technologists, fashion designers and AI engineers are developing tools to creatively attack or undermine today’s surveillance infrastructure.
by Lee Rickwood
There is a path open to us for reclaiming the initial promise and potential offered by the Internet and its many offspring.
by Lee Rickwood
To make informed decisions based on real-world information is to use data for good – particularly in a pandemic.
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 Yasmin Ranade
McAfee Corp. announced findings from its 2021 Consumer Security Mindset Report recently revealing that online alternatives continue to replace activities in people’s lives and routines that were once in-person. Convenience was cited as an important motivation.
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.