Parental Control Apps: Beware of ‘Stalkerware”
By Yasmin Ranade
Parents should be cautious about downloading apps that stalk or spy on their children when they are online as these may expose you and your family to privacy problems.
Tag: privacy
Apple WWDC21: The Highlights
By Christine Persaud
At this year’s annual event, Apple announced new software, capabilities, operating system, and app updates that allow software and app developers to build new features and functions that customers can use on Apple devices. Here are the highlights.
Zoho in Canada: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
by Lee Rickwood
Providing software tools for business productivity, collaboration and unified communications, Zoom is well positioned for another 25 years — at both the local and the global level.
Top Tips to Protect Student Data and Privacy
By Yasmin Ranade
Many learning platforms treat student data as consumer data, raising more red flags regarding student data privacy and compliance.
Silicon Valley Values: New Book Looks at Technology Cost, Price, Value, Worth
by Lee Rickwood
There’s real societal value in the how and why of human communication; there’s clearly lots of corporate value in setting rules that influence and govern how we communicate.
Privacy in a Box: High-tech Privacy Booths Offer Privacy, Security, Peace and Quiet
by Lee Rickwood
Anticipating an at least partial return to work in the traditional office environment, a new high-tech product category has emerged to address the expected need for privacy, security and a quiet space to (at least temporarily) get away from it all: the privacy booth.
Ant Tracking, Smartphone Hacking: Mobility and Privacy in the Pandemic Era
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.
Look Out. Listen Up. Hackers Creatively Attack Surveillance Systems
by Lee Rickwood
Visual artists, computer technologists, fashion designers and AI engineers are developing tools to creatively attack or undermine today’s surveillance infrastructure.