Canada needs to think carefully about our approach to regulating online harm. Rather than going it alone and taking aim at social media companies, Canada should work with other democracies.
Having an end-to-end encrypted messaging ‘ecosystem’ is a great way for Facebook to evade the full wrath of the law. It has come at a convenient time, too.
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Social. media apps need to stay ahead of the global competition to keep the attention of kids.
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Despite efforts to wall off regional or national internets, social media companies will have to continue aggressively competing across borders if they are to grow.
Artist Kudakwashe Chigodo poses for a portrait with his smartphone in Harare.
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Zoom’s privacy and security shortcomings are just the latest videoconferencing vulnerabilities. Knowing each platform’s risks can help people avoid many of the downsides of virtual gatherings.
Social isolation is not new to many elderly people, technology can help alleviate some of the feelings of loneliness.
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Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up to block misinformation and promote accurate information about the coronavirus. Their track records on self-policing are poor. The results so far are mixed.
What lecturers and students can do in the absence of the bricks-and-mortar lecturing experience.
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Steps higher education institutions can take to ensure that teaching and learning continues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medical workers talk with a woman suspected of being ill with a coronavirus at a community health station in Wuhan, China, in January 2020.
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New research has identified the main triggers of this psychological phenomenon, the contexts in which it happens and the types of fears involved in it.
The hand that taps ‘remove from this group’ is the hand that rules the world.
Facebook’s initiative places the company in a complicated situation, as increased user privacy, while positive, could come with potential impunity for offenders.
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Facebook is planning to put end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services soon. But governments aren’t happy about it, as it could make it harder to catch criminals.