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Two European Sustainability Workshops now in Ontario and online: The Climate Fresk and The Digital Collage
Come and discover the Climate Fresk (Fresque du Climat) and the Digital Collage (Fresque du Numérique) in Toronto and Ontario! These Climate Change and Sustainable Digital Technology murals, as they could also be called, are two recent sustainability workshops out of Europe. The foundational, Climate Fresk workshop, allows everyone to simply and dynamically understand our Western economies’ detrimental impact on climate change in general . The Digital Collage is a complementary workshop to help prepare citizens and decision-makers for our transition to a technology and battery-fueled economy, away from fossil fuels.
Epic Games Fortnite Fine: It settles with FTC for Deceptive Design and Privacy Violations Towards Children
This December 19, 2022, the US FTC (Federal Trade Commission) announced Epic Games must pay a $520 million fine due to deceptive design practices and privacy violations in their Fortnite video game. Cam Adair, the well-known video gaming addiction advocate broke the...
Has Apple lost Its Virtue? Planned Obsolescence and Dubious Privacy Practices are now Apple Features
I have been a fan of Apple products since the beginning and am angry at their strategy of iPhone planned obsolescence. Not only that, but its signature approach of privacy-by-design is not a reality anymore. I had some of the wonderful first MacIntosh computers, the...
FTX Debacle: Teachers, Beware of Tech Hype (again)
After it was found, in November 2022, that the bankrupt crypto currency exchange FTX had no financial reporting whatsoever, despite having big name investors like Black Rock, Sequoia, the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund and SoftBank, its safe to assume another round of...
Research Results: Use and Place of Digital Technology in Toronto’s 2022 Race for Mayor
We tracked & echoed online public conversations on Twitter, Facebook & TikTok about the 2022 Toronto race for mayor and issues surrounding the race from the top candidates, interest groups, established and emerging media outlets and concerned residents. We...
Main Authors
Caroline Isautier
From digital marketing to digital citizenship
Kate Tillezcek
Canada Research Chair on Youth
Hessie Jones
Venture Partner, Matr Ventures, privacy and marketing expert