By Lee Rickwood
A Toronto digital development company is confidently gearing up for as many as 25,000 users in its first year, a number that surely is well below the number of folks who say they want or need anonymity online.
By Lee Rickwood
Products offered for our comfort and convenience, are actually pretty convenient for digital intruders, computer hackers and cyber criminals.
“Future research may indicate that long-term human exposure to these particular low-frequency characteristics should be avoided or carefully controlled” a scientist wrote in 1979.
Now, we’re looking at labelling.
by Lee Rickwood
by Lee Rickwood
What if your friend turned out to be a real materialist, ‘only in it for the money’? What if they were constantly pushing you to buy things you may or may not want or even like? Would you still hang out?
Digital innovator and cyber activist Aaron Swartz, 1986 – 2013. In a speech he made last year, he spoke of the on-going battle to define what can, what will and what will not take place on the Internet.
by Lee Rickwood
By Lee Rickwood
We are all players in the “Privacy Theatre”, living in an online world that shows only a pretense of privacy behind the curtain.
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.