Cloud Computing brings privacy concerns, consumer confusion, business opportunities
By Lee Rickwood
It may be one of the hottest tech topics today, but it is also a metaphor for things unknown, unseen or uncertain.
Tag: privacy
Here’s Looking at You Kid – Proximity Marketing and Customer Tracking Embedded in Advertising
By Lee Rickwood
Technological developments being applied in what’s known as ‘digital out-of-home’ advertising industry are bringing amazing new abilities to track and measure the audience, to trigger and enhance client interactivity, and to find and identify new customers.
Privacy technologies win awards as security breaches garner headlines
By Lee Rickwood
These are much more than academic awards. Just a week after one award winning researcher notified Facebook about such attacks, the social net made significant changes to its online systems.
Internet Tracking and Online Surveillance Bill to Boost Costs, Restrict Privacy
By Lee Rickwood
If passed by the majority government, a controversial piece of Canadian Internet legislation could require Internet providers in Canada to hand over personal information to authorities without a warrant or judicial oversight.
Silver Generation Seeks to Demystify Technology at Ryerson University Silver Screens Arts Festival
by Lee Rickwood
These are pretty tech savvy seniors, and everyone in the room raised their hands as computer users and e-mailers, with maybe 60 or 70 per cent of them on Facebook, and about the same having used iPhones, digital cameras or video camcorders.
Google vs. Facebook: It’s all about privacy
By Hessie Jones
Recent news about Facebook’s alleged smear campaign against Google has brought to question the real impact of disclosure on the users, who continuously feed their personal information into a priceless database.
Better Mobile, Online Privacy Means Redesign the Manuals
By Lee Rickwood
User manuals and privacy policies should get a ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ button.
It’s not just about telling users how something works.
It’s about telling them if, how and why information is gathered about how, when and where they use it.
Digital Media Readies for ‘Moonshot’ as New Tools and Technologies Roll-out at Canada 3.0
by Lee Rickwood
Like the pledge to land a man on the moon before the end of the ‘60s, the goal is to develop a technical infrastructure and digital environment in which anyone in Canada can do anything online.