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In the News: Google Automatically Logs Users Into Chrome Browser on Google Sites

In the News: Google Automatically Logs Users Into Chrome Browser on Google Sites

By Jason Cheung on November 6, 2018 | Tagged with Consent, Cyber Security, geolocation, google, In the News, privacy policy, surveillance

  Google launched version 69.0 of its Chrome web browser on September 5, 2018 [1]. After the last version update of the  browser [2], we talked Google’s decision to mark all HTTP-only websites as ‘Not Secure’. In their update for Chrome 69, Google decided to log users who had turned the ‘Sync’ feature into their […]

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The Relationship Between You and Institutional Software

The Relationship Between You and Institutional Software

By Jason Cheung on August 21, 2018 | Tagged with Canvas, Codes of Conduct, Enterprise Software Licensing, FIPPA, Institutional Software, Instructure, Licensing, LMS, policy, privacy policy, Software Licensing, Student Rights, University of Toronto

Introduction Recently, the University of Toronto decided to switch its Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard Learn [1] by Blackboard Inc., to Canvas [2] by Instructure. The newly installed LMS is named Quercus, a branded instance of Canvas built for the University of Toronto. This change in software sparked questions for the Digital Tattoo team to find out: […]

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Canvas Exposed: The little problem with UBC’s big, expensive new tool

By bryan short on August 20, 2018 | Tagged with Canvas, cloud computing, Consent, Contract, data, data residency, Digital Rights, Exposed, FIPPA, Forced Consent, Informed Consent, privacy, privacy policy, terms of use, UBC

The little problem with UBC’s big, expensive new tool Last year, UBC introduced a new learning management system. Canvas by Instructure was rolled out to replace the aging and underperforming Blackboard Connect. When classes begin this September, UBC’s more than 60,000 students will only be using the new Canvas system. Learning management systems are useful […]

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