Privacy is a big issue in the Internet. With explosion of social networks, the issue is bigger than ever. Complaints have come from every sector, individuals, special interest groups, governments, etc. The Canadian government limply sought to sanction Facebook if it did not change its privacy policy. The Chinese government is now in a [...]
Rob Spence is a Canadian filmmaker who lost an eye in an accident as a teenager. Project Eyeborg, his latest venture, takes a look at creating insightful documentaries and raising awareness about society’s attraction to surveillance. To do this, he plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye.
The idea evolved from Spence’s [...]
His stylish red scarf and orange-tinted hair blow in the breeze as Kim Rae-in, a member of the paparazzi posse, cruises his beat-up motorcycle through the mean streets of Seoul, South Korea on the prowl for the next Kodak moment.
Stalking starlets? Pop singers? Politicians? Not a chance. Kim’s out to get the serious money-makers—pictures [...]
A Canadian city is piloting a program to help keep vulnerable teens safe from gang activity.
The Surrey Wraparound Project combines efforts of The City of Surrey, BC, with members
of the RCMP, the BC Integrated Gang Task Force, Public Safety Canada, and
community service organizations. The team will identify youth who are at risk of joining
gangs and [...]
Students returning from a two-week break were aghast to discover cameras had been installed in their school toilets.
School authorities were caught with their pants down and were forced to remove the CCTV cameras they had installed in the students’ toilets. Steve Baker, principal of the 1400-student school said, “Someone made an error.”
Furious pupils and parents [...]
Drugs and weapons in our public schools have always been a source of great concern. To address that concern, the Ohio state legislature passed a law in 1998 describing the circumstances under which a student’s locker can be searched by the school principal. Under this law, the principal of a public school was given authority [...]
Are digital picture frames harmful to your electronic health? There are growing concerns that they are. Elinor Mills points to growing evidence that some of these plug and play devices imported from China contain a virus. She said in a post for cnet news that “Before Christmas, Samsung and Amazon issued alerts warning customers [...]