News of the Week; February 19, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS Broadcast Panel Commissioned Report Found Canada Ranks First Among Peer Countries in Spending on TV Production, Domestic TV Production, and Employment Per Capita (Michael Geist) The BTLR and USMCA, Part Two: Why the Broadcast Panel Recommendations Could Cost Canadians Millions in Retaliatory Tariffs (Michael Geist) CBC Leads Call for New Government Regulations to Support […]
Millions of tweets peddled conspiracy theories about coronavirus in other countries, an unpublished U.S. report says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/29/twitter-coronavirus-misinformation-state-department/ This article discusses a really fascinating problem that is exacerbating the fear accompanying the coronavirus epidemic – misinformation disseminated over social media. As described in the article, approximately 2 million tweets promoted conspiracy theories about the coronavirus have been circulated since the outbreak. While some of the information being circulated online is accurate, MIT’s […]
Group Presentation: Cyberbullying, Social Media & the Law
Hi Everyone! Gaby, Kate, Leah and I will be presenting on cyberbullying on Tuesday. Our presentation is broken down into the following sections: 1) Cyberbullying in Canada This part of the presentation discusses how cyberbullying is a growing social problem. Canada has experienced two high profile cyberbullying cases – Rhetaeh Parsons and Amanda Todd. In […]
The Future of Transatlantic Data Flows
The transfer of personal data is inherent in most online activities. As many of the top online companies are located in the United States, every day there is a huge flow of data from America to Europe. As a result, the data becomes subject to the EU’s more stringent privacy laws such as GDPR . […]
Huawei Is Winning the Argument in Europe, as the U.S. Fumbles to Develop Alternatives
Much like the UK, Germany appears to not be fully capitulating to American calls to have an outright ban on Huawei’s involvement in national 5G networks. Many other European nations are also expressing skepticism towards an outright ban. While they have indicated that they are willing to curtail the involvement of companies that are deemed […]
“Why Does the Radio Keep Playing the Same Songs?”
This was the question posed by my uncle over the Christmas break. “You know when I was your age, we didn’t have this zip-zap-app stuff, we heard it all on the radio! Disk jockeys must really be lazy these days.” * I didn’t have an answer for him at the time, but after some digging […]
News of the Week; February 12, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS The Broadcast Panel Report and Discoverability of Canadian Content: Searching for Evidence of a Problem (Michael Geist) The BTLR and USMCA, Part One: Why the Broadcast Panel Recommendations Conflict With Canada’s Emerging Trade Obligations (Michael Geist) Higher Costs and Less Choice: Why Consumers Will Pay the Price for the Broadcast Panel’s Plans to Increase […]
Facebook’s launch of Facebook Dating in EU delayed due to data protection concerns
Facebook’s dating service, Facebook Dating, has decided to delay launching in the EU after the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the national authority for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), expressed concerns with the recent notification of the launch and the failure to provide a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA). Facebook Ireland only notified the […]
Response to Facial Recongnition Technology and Canadian Law Enforcement
This was a very interesting post. I was also reading about the controversies surrounding facial recognition software. Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Is Identifying Child Victims of Abuse by Kashmir Hill and Gabriel J.X. Dance. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/clearview-facial-recognition-child-sexual-abuse.html?searchResultPosition=4. This article discusses how it is being used in law enforcement (including in Canada) to identify the victims of child […]
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