Issues/Your Take

Further to Professor Festinger’s unwillingness to accept facebooks repeated privacy violations and hackneyed apologies, I wanted to look at organizational responses to public outcry. The article I found is out of the Harvard Business Review is a step-by-step guide: https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-organizational-apology. A quote I found especially interesting: “For many years, medical professionals were advised not to […]

Hi class, Building on the most recent News of the Week over Facebook’s decision to blackout access to both Australian news on the international scale and news pages on Facebook in Australia, an agreement has been reached between Facebook and the Australian Government. To summarize, Australia has been at the forefront of the news recently […]

I found a post I wanted to share – there is a company using AI technology to create psychedelics mushrooms and edibles – thought it was quite an interesting concept! https://ca.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/941952/aion-therapeutic-meet-the-team-using-artificial-intelligence-to-create-a-full-lineup-of-psychedelic-and-cannabis-therapies-941952.html

As a response to EU GDPR regulations, website cookie settings have become more robust in terms of how we, as individuals, communicate our consent for our data being gathered. With Canada implementing its own consumer privacy legislation in the coming years, I thought I’d highlight the area that at a first glance might be where […]

A recent article by arstechnica, states 70% of top “civic” Facebook groups are toxic or violent according to a report. The report discusses the issues of hate speech, violent rhetoric, misinformation and toxic behaviour in relation to the US Capitol. However, this is a global issue. I live in the Fraser Valley, and we are […]