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In the News: Canada’s Auditor General reports ‘no plan’ to connect the digital divide

In the News: Canada’s Auditor General reports ‘no plan’ to connect the digital divide

By elyse hill on December 18, 2018 | Tagged with Canada, disconnection, In the News, internet access

Though many perceive the ability to be online as a basic necessity, several rural communities across Canada still find themselves without access to high-speed connection. Many of these disconnected areas are Indigenous communities that already experience a disproportionate lack of vital resources, such as the absence of clean water or all-weather roads in the Shoal […]

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Digital Piracy – Canadian Copyright Law: Fair Use and Fair Dealing in Canadian Law (Part 2)

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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#DeleteFacebook? An Investigation into the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Part 2

#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 […]

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