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Secret Uber recordings threaten passenger comfort

Written on November 9, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

While dashboard cameras are installed in cars to protect safety, they’re not there to infringe on privacy. On Oct. 29, an off-hours conversation between seven Ottawa Senators players in Phoenix was captured and published by an Uber dashboard camera. In the five-minute video, the hockey players...

When security endangers safety

Written on November 7, 2017. Posted in Lifestyle.

According to his mother, Jesse Galganov used his iPhone to contact his loved ones every day, as most of us do. Now Galganov is missing, his mother is fighting for Apple and T-Mobile to tell authorities where and when he last used it and in this case, common sense appears to have been suspended. CBC...

SGPS council meeting highlights internal privacy issues

Written on September 16, 2016. Posted in News.

On September 13, the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) held their first council meeting of the academic year. Putting aside recent rumours at the SGPS-affiliated pub, The Grad Club, allegedly jeopardizing SGPS member’s health and dental plans, the SGPS meeting instead focused on...

A guide to a strategic social media game

Written on January 29, 2016. Posted in Lifestyle.

The initial vision of the Internet was to build a community of anonymity: a place where you could reinvent yourself. For the most part, this vision collapsed with the advent of social media. As people became fixated on constructing profile pages on Myspace and Facebook, visibility became the new...

How to send nude photos safely

Written on November 20, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

We live in a (cyber)world where just about everyone has a camera phone. This means a lot of fun and games for couples, including sexting and sending explicit photos. However, with all of this new technology, there are also a ton of hackers with a keen interest in obtaining these photos. Only a Google...

Medical details not a right

Written on September 19, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

Rob Ford’s detailed medical disclosure was the right decision, but his situation shouldn’t set a precedent where we demand health information from our leaders as though it were a right. Ford withdrew from the ongoing Toronto mayoral race last week following the discovery of a tumour in his abdomen....

Learn the cloud

Written on September 4, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

On Sunday night, hundreds of nude photos of A-list celebrities were stolen from Apple’s iCloud service and leaked online. The result was public outrage as individuals likened the theft to sexual violation. The public’s response in some ways speaks volumes about our society’s obsession with celebrity...

Don’t erase history

Written on May 27, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

Not everyone should have the right to be forgotten. Earlier this month, the European High Court of Justice ruled that people have the “right to be forgotten”, meaning that under European privacy law, individuals can now request that search engines remove links to information they think is no longer...

Internet needs regulation

Written on March 28, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

While resolutions to Internet privacy concerns aren’t forthcoming, more should be done to prevent corporations from looking at the content of user emails. Controversy erupted last week after Microsoft admitted to reading emails from a journalist’s Hotmail account in the course of tracking down a leak. In...

Scanners Invasive

Written on October 14, 2011. Posted in Editorials.

In order to attend a fraternity or sorority party at Cornell University, students must have their university student ID cards electronically scanned by iPods at the door of fraternity and sorority parties at Cornell University. Cornell administration implemented the scanners this August. On Oct. 6,...

Tag: Privacy

Secret Uber recordings threaten passenger comfort

When security endangers safety

SGPS council meeting highlights internal privacy issues

How to send nude photos safely

Medical details not a right

Learn the cloud

Don’t erase history

Internet needs regulation

Scanners Invasive

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