Cambridge Analytica
Guest Post: A Clear Cookie Jar: Discussing the Increased Autonomy of Our Digital Privacy
By Rachael Bradshaw on June 15, 2021 | Tagged with big data, Bill C-11, Cambridge Analytica, Data, data, data mining, law, laws, online privacy, privacy
A Clear Cookie Jar: Discussing the Increased Autonomy of Our Digital Privacy by Olivia Done We all have privacy agreement fatigue, often accepting all cookies on browsers and skipping new privacy agreement emails. [1] However, recent changes to EU and Canadian digital privacy laws provide us with more user autonomy over data mining [2], terminology […]
Digital Identity Digest (October 2018)
By Monique Rodrigues on November 12, 2018 | Tagged with Amazon, Cambridge Analytica, cybersecurity, digital citizenship, Digital identity, Digital Identity Digest, facebook, facial recognition, google, Government Surveillance, law enforcement, privacy
Could facial recognition be a tool for dangerous mass surveillance? An Amazon employee published an anonymous op-ed on Medium speaking out against the company’s decision to sell its facial recognition product, Rekognition, to police in the U.S. They believe it’s a system for dangerous mass surveillance, which reinforces existing bias as demonstrated in a test […]
#DeleteFacebook? An Investigation into the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Part 2
By elyse hill on May 10, 2018 | Tagged with Cambridge Analytica, Canada, data, data mining, facebook, Online Safety, personal data, privacy, security, Social media
As we learned in Part 1 of this series, Global Science Research (GSR), Facebook, and Cambridge Analytica have each been the subjects of recent controversy for their respective roles in mining data from over 50 million Facebook profiles. While we can investigate how each company contributed to this event, we must also examine our […]
#DeleteFacebook? An Investigation into the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Part 1
By elyse hill on May 3, 2018 | Tagged with Cambridge Analytica, data, data mining, facebook, Online Safety, personal data, privacy, security, Social media
On March 17, 2018, Cambridge Analytica came under fire and amassed international attention as news broke of the company’s role in harvesting data from over 50 million Facebook profiles [1]. While the unfolding story has outraged many, it has also presented numerous questions: how did this happen? How much trust are we putting in our […]
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