The Downside of Christmas Giving: Is That Gift Safe?
by Lee Rickwood
A recent report from the Canadian Senate says smart toys pose threats to our children’s personal privacy that should keep us up at night.
Tag: social media
How Artificial Intelligence Serves Marketers, Creates Influencers, Brands Campaigns
by Lee Rickwood
Particularly in the world of advertising and marketing, AI-enabled systems are used to analyze millions of data points about a consumer, and they learn from the careful analysis of that data in order to generate highly targeted marketing messages and very specific customer interactions.
Should Good Tech Specs Include Good Outcomes, Moral Reckonings, Ethical Obligations?
by Lee Rickwood
Tech industry initiatives like Tech for Good and others are tackling the perceived inequities, negative impacts and outright threats posed by technology today.
How to increase and take back your privacy on Facebook
By Ted Kritsonis
Keeping Facebook’s prying eyes away from not just who you are, but also what you’re doing online, is made a little easier when the right settings are in place.
Facebook CEO looking for answers to important questions
By Ted Kritsonis
Now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced public scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers, the proceedings revealed just how aimless the monolith truly is.
Facebook’s problems are about more than privacy
By Ted Kritsonis
More than just a brewing controversy, Facebook is mired in a developing scandal that casts a bright spotlight on how precarious privacy and personal data truly are on the world’s largest social network.
Protect Your Online Reputation with Search Engine Take-downs, Privacy Commissioner Says
by Lee Rickwood
The type of information someone might want to be de-indexed or taken down is well, rather broad: from social ratings sites and revenge porn postings to arrest citations and mugshots to nasty reports about our teachers or our shopping experiences by disgruntled consumers or students.
Holy Fake News! Pope Tackles Distorted Facts on Social Media
by Lee Rickwood
We may be our own last line of defence against fake news and purposeful social manipulation. That puts our media literacy, cognitive skills and critical thinking abilities to a real test. Severely tested, too, will be our economic skills and abilities. Fake news is cheap; real information and investigative journalism is expensive.