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In the News: Facebook Pushes for Facial Recognition Software
By elyse hill on July 25, 2018 | Tagged with Data Collection, facebook, facial recognition, In the News, privacy, Social media
Despite facing legal trouble in the US for violating state privacy laws by misusing biometric data [1], or the ongoing investigation into the data mining practices of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook recently announced plans to implement facial recognition software in Canada and the European Union. This software was originally introduced within the United States […]
Ownership of Content in Your Digital Life – World Wide Web (Part 2)
By Jason Cheung on July 16, 2018 | Tagged with content ownership, copyleft, Data Ownership, GPL, intellectual property, joint intellectual work, shareware, web hosting
What Do You Own on Your Website? In our previous article, we took a look at the content ownership agreements that exist between social media users and the companies behind Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. In short, we learned that as part of the agreement to use their services, users agree to give these companies a […]
Ownership of Content in Your Digital Life – Social Media (Part 1)
By Jason Cheung on July 9, 2018 | Tagged with Content Licensing, Data Capitalism, Data Colonialism, Data for Services, Data Imperialism, Data Merchanting, Data Ownership, Data Payment, Social media, Terms of Service, Third Wave Capitalism, toffler, Value of Data
Snap, Click, Post, Like: the normal rhythm of a social media user, who uses popular social media/sharing sites to broadcast stories from their day-to-day lives to the world. Most users are content with their relationship with social sharing platforms, so long as the service is uninterrupted. Social sharing platforms allow users to share their lives, […]
Guest Blog Post: Bridging the Digital Divide along BC’s Connected Coast
By aaron dishy on June 25, 2018 | Tagged with access, connection, content creation, digital infrastructure, Digital literacy, digital policy, guest blog, internet, internet access
As those living in communities along British Columbia’s rugged coastline know quite well, the internet connection isn’t always great. Up and down speeds and long periods of disconnection have for decades been standard to coastal BC. However, there has finally been some good news: on March 13th 2018, it was announced that many of […]
Guest Blog Post: Predictive Policing in the Nation’s Capital
By mitch jackson on June 21, 2018 | Tagged with Data Collection, guest blog, predictive policing, privacy, security
On October 24th 2016, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) launched the Ottawa Police Strategic Operations Centre (OPSOC), an initiative to “use crime information to improve public and officer safety” [1]. A February 2017 article appearing on Motherboard, a Vice News channel, instead labelled OPSOC as a manifestation of a larger movement in police forces […]
Digital Rights Now – Sign the Petition
By bryan short on June 18, 2018 | Tagged with Bill of Rights, Consent, Data Collection, Digital Rights, digital tattoo podcast, privacy
A few months ago, we proposed a bill of rights for learning data. While the need for reform within the context of our university systems is still real, events like the Cambridge Analytica scandal—which occurred in the interim—highlight the need for all Canadians to have a bill of rights to protect their digital identities. Today, […]
New on the Podcast: The City with Eyes
By bryan short on June 13, 2018 | Tagged with Bianca Wylie, digital tattoo, digital tattoo podcast, Episode 5, podcast, privacy, Sidewalk Labs, Sidewalk Toronto, Smart City, surveillance, technology, The City with Eyes
The Digital Tattoo Podcast – Episode 5 As the government of Canada slowly prepares to embrace the future of city building, a small plot of land races ahead to become the nation’s first smart city. Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., is developing a proposal for 12 acres on the downtown […]
How to Access Information Collected From Your Digital Accounts
By Jason Cheung on June 11, 2018 | Tagged with Access My Info, Citizen Lab, Data, freedom of information, Munk School of Global Affairs, Office of the privacy commissioner, PIPEDA, privacy, Privacy Act, terms and conditions, transparency
Terms and Conditions – TL;DR: Take My Data Terms and conditions of use often bind users to agreements in unsuspecting ways about the use, storage, sale, transfer, and deletion of their account, data, or identity. Examples include popular software such as Twitter, which stipulates that they can profit from selling your pictures without prior […]
Digital Piracy – Who Decides What is Considered Pirated Material? The Changing Face of Copyright Judgement in Canada (Part 3)
By Jason Cheung on June 7, 2018 | Tagged with Copyright, CRTC, fair dealing, fair play canada, fair use, Government Control, IPRA, Kramer, net neutrality, piracy, Power, Weinhardt, Wiewiorra
What is the IPRA? The Internet Piracy Review Agency (IPRA) is a proposed non-profit corporation by a coalition of companies including Bell Canada, Rogers, Cineplex, CBC, Corus, Toronto International Film Festival, and Cinémas Guzzo (collectively known as Fair Play Canada) to maintain a list of websites that have hosted or distributed pirated material and force […]
Digital Piracy – Canadian Copyright Law: Fair Use and Fair Dealing in Canadian Law (Part 2)
By Jason Cheung on May 31, 2018 | Tagged with Canada, Content, content ownership, Copyright Act, copyright law, Creative Commons, fair dealing, fair use, legality, open access, Work Ownership
In the last part of our series, we looked at what Piracy was, and saw that it was dependent on the legal copyright protection of works within a country. Now let’s take a look at what Canadian law says about copyright and copyright protection. The Copyright Act of Canada, signed in 1921, establishes the […]
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