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Guest Post: A Clear Cookie Jar: Discussing the Increased Autonomy of Our Digital Privacy

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 […]

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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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#DeleteFacebook? An Investigation into the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Part 1

#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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Data Mining: How eBay knew I’d buy that Batman Snuggie

Data Mining: How eBay knew I’d buy that Batman Snuggie

By Marga Heras on April 10, 2014 | Tagged with data mining, TBYI

Ever wonder how Amazon knew you’d buy that slap chop set? Or how Netflix predicted you’d love Tropic Thunder before you even heard about it? The reason behind this predictive magic is that companies like Amazon and Netflix are studying historical user data to improve their forecasting and marketing, and to increase their revenue. Data Mining […]

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