News and media mentions
- The Demetra effect: Understanding how some fashion videos are actually ads (CBC Kids, 25 Oct 2024)
- Actions needed beyond lawsuit to address social media’s influence on youth, say Brock experts (PelhamToday.ca 16 April 2024)
- Dragons’ Den pitch proves successful for Brock student (Brock News, 20 Oct 2023)
- TikTok hit with $500M fine in Europe for a past failing safeguarding youth privacy (CBC, 16 Sept 2023)
- Eye in the Sky [Police drones story] (CBC, 23 April 2023)
- Ontario councillors, candidates urge post-election action against ‘nastiness’ on the campaign trail (CBC, 02 Nov 2022)
- Ontario schools deal with swearing and racial slurs in virtual classrooms (CBC, 12 Jan 2022)
- Brock research team analyzing how Niagara communicated during Covid crisis (Brock News, 09 Nov 2021)
- Using Hamilton’s parking app could send your personal data into the U.S. (CBC, 18 Aug 2020)
- Brock data expert shares concerns after Equifax cyberattack (Brock News, 08 Sept 2017)
- GO Open Data Conference Review (Public Sector Digest, for conference May 5-6, 2017)
- Data Privacy Activism (610 CKTB News, 13 March 2017)
- Panel discussion to focus on data privacy (Brock News, 09 March, 2017)
- Pokemon Go, comments on apps, data and privacy (AM 900 CHML News, 14 July 2016)
- Pokemon Go, What’s the Big Idea? comments on apps, data and privacy (610 CKTB News, 13 July 2016)
- Pokémon Go raises some privacy concerns; Brock experts warn (Brock News, 13 July 2016)
- diTHINK Conference Interview: Karen Louise Smith (Orion, 28 April 2016)
- Helping youth understand digital privacy (Brock News, 26 Oct 2015)
- RPTV at Mozilla Girls Learning Code (RPTV, posted 22 Oct 2014)
Community archives from events
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- Expert Panel on Digital Rights, Canadian Open Data Summit 2018, Niagara Falls, ON [Role: Panel Moderator]. Posted 17 January 2019.
- Civic Technology and the Participation Ladder. Civic Tech Toronto, Hacknight #89 [Role: Speaker]. Posted 26 April 2017.
Blog posts
- Introducing the Add-ons for Privacy Research Project
- New role and next steps in my Hive Toronto journey
- Some learning pathways from Hive Toronto privacy badges
- Prototyping open badges (with Doug Belshaw)
- Archiving Twitter Data: An Open Data Day Workshop
- #Tell[X]Everything
- GovCamp archive
- Digital economy consultation
Other links
- Data Privacy Activism (blog post and sketchnotes by Giulia Forsythe, 17 March 2017)
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