App Store Privacy Nutrition Labels Feed Our Security Awareness
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.
Tag: smartphone
The Silver Bullet We Need to Stop COVID: It is Silver? Is it Copper?
by Lee Rickwood
In our fight against COVID-19, a vaccine is no silver bullet. But is silver? Is copper? Canadian tech companies are providing some answers.
Mobile App Tracks Ice Flows, Documents Climate Change, Preserves Indigenous Knowledge
They were rescued this time. That makes this particular story of how two men and their vehicle fell through the ice a happy one. Sadly, that’s not always the case. Long a hazard for the residents of Canada’s Far North,…
Use Canadian App to Push Emergency Messages and Alert Notifications in Pandemic
by Lee Rickwood
As different jurisdictions adopt new criteria for determining restrictions on our activities — or to use that unfortunate term, lockdowns — the need for fast, reliable, clear, and consistent messaging is greater now than ever before.
The Social Dilemma: We Have Clear Warnings, We Need Real Solutions
Much of today’s technology is designed to deceive and manipulate us — not to protect us, our privacy or our property. Into our smartphones and our social media sites and our connected digital gadgetry, product designers have embedded certain techniques…
Connect the Next Four Billion Internet Users by Balloon – Not a Loon-y Idea
by Lee Rickwood
Large, sleek, silvery balloons overhead may soon bring Internet service to underserved locations around the world.
Reviewing the Google Pixel 4a
By Ted Kritsonis
The Google Pixel 4a proves that you don’t have to spend a fortune to get a really capable smartphone.
Next-Gen 9-1-1 Tested in Ontario, Roll-out Deadlines Delayed Due to COVID-19
by Lee Rickwood
Next-generation emergency phone system capabilities present a great opportunity to better assess the severity or complexity of a situation, review potential responses more quickly, and make appropriate decisions more appropriately.