Now with two tickets to see this Munk Debate on May 2, 2014!
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The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto is one of ten non-profits to receive the New Digital Age Grants.
Some terrific news! Awesome to see Eric Schmidt support the work that we’re doing at the Citizen Lab
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SSHRC Postdoc!
A SSHRC postdoc (starting October 1, 2014) is mine!!
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2014.2.18
“We are assessing Public Mobile pricing right now and looking at product offerings,” Joe Natale, Telus’ executive vice-president and chief commercial officer, said Thursday in a conference call with analysts to discuss the company’s fourth quarter results.
“We have made a commitment to keep the $19 unlimited voice plan in the market through 2014, but we will be looking at all the various aspects of Public Mobile rate plans and making sure we strike the right balance between doing what’s right for Public Mobile customers and putting forth a set of economic considerations with the Telus organization.”
Nicholas Kyonka, “Telus working on Public Mobile integration” (subscription required)
Whenever I read ‘balance between our acquired customers and our own economic considerations’ I almost immediately translate to ‘the acquired customers are gonna enjoy the economic benefits of rate hikes.’
Christopher Parsons, Citizen Lab Postdoctoral Fellow, reacts to the assessment that it is okay Wi-Fi data was collected at airports.
My appearance on CTV yesterday, talking about the CSEC Commissioner’s statement that it’s perfectly legal for the foreign signals intelligence agency to collect Canadians’ metadata.
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Tumblr and Security PR
You can now take extra precaution against hackers and snoops by enabling SSL security on your Tumblr Dashboard. Just head over to your Account Settings and flip the switch.
“Any reason I shouldn’t do this?” Nope, not really. It doesn’t change anything about the dashboard, it just encrypts your connection to it. We’ve been using it for weeks and haven’t even noticed. So, yeah, turn it on and forget about it. Easy.
That this isn’t enabled by default shows that Tumblr is interested in the PR of offering security rather than giving enough of a damn to automatically enable SSL across the entire user-space.
Spoils of my on-air interview this morning!
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Whitetail Deer
A Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) chows down on a rabbit carcass.
Although primarily herbivorous deer will also meat, particularly in times of hardship such as winter when the natural food is harder to come by.
This puts the herds of deer that roam the University of Victoria in a new light.
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CSE Redactions
Clearly, Canadians can totally have confidence in CSEC’s steps to protect privacy. As in, there are 5 separate steps to protect Canadians, plus (possibly) other ‘incidental’ steps that are dealt with elsewhere. (Source: 2011 ATIP from CSEC)
And don’t worry about those incidents because they’re all dealt with in ‘privacy protective’ ways. (And just trust CSEC on the latter, even though CSEC redacts its privacy protective practices for when incidentally collecting Canadians’ information.)
Excited Pixels 