by Caroline Isautier | Jun 28, 2021 | Digital Citizenship
ByteDance is the publisher of Tik Tok, a fun tool on the face of it to lip synch to videos and become world famous – but a powerful data collection and ecommerce tool on the back side. That has attracted lawsuits worldwide. Tik Tok Sued Worldwide for Illegal...
by Caroline Isautier | Jun 25, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Education
Learning to decode digital tools like social media, video games, the web, AI and blockchain is crucial to a healthy future for Canada [Repost from Medium in 2019 ] 2019 is the year Google turns 31, Facebook 15, and the iPhone 12 years old. Its also the year where we...
by Caroline Isautier | Mar 26, 2021 | Digital Citizenship
If you’re looking to fight climate change and protect nature, thinking about reducing your digital carbon footprint should come to mind as much as recycling food, clothes and consuming less plastic and oil. Here are some earth-friendly tips to reduce your carbon...
by Caroline Isautier | Mar 11, 2021 | Digital Citizenship
Is ClubHouse, the hot discussion app of late 2020, a private platform? Ask Alexander Hanff, online privacy specialist, speaker and consultant, and he’ll say what is below. Reproduced with his consent from his Linkedin post here. TLDR; it is shit, it is massively...
by Caroline Isautier | Feb 23, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Featured
National Day of Unplugging is an awareness campaign that promotes a 24-hour respite from technology annually observed the first weekend in March. It came out of the US where, for more than a decade, schools, religious institutions and businesses have used our...
by Caroline Isautier | Feb 16, 2021 | Digital Citizenship, Education
Digital Citizenship / Digital Literacy Education for grades K to 12 As parents were caught off guard by the rise of online media, teaching young people of all ages in school to be safe and private when they’re online is crucial, not only for healthy social...
