New today: "Plus ça change: Privacy, Corporate Interests, and the Design of Data-Extractive Tech," @IgnacioCofone and Adelise Lalande's review of Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power, by @ariezrawaldman.
Link ➡️ https://t.co/9IAM3XMSBv
Story of people #McGill200 is putting at risk. An entering law student--an organ recipient & suffering congenital illness--who left a job and moved to Montreal to attend law school told either wait a year without employment or take your chances with inadequate health measures.
The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for allegedly abusing its power and dominance over smaller rivals.
It is the most significant action the federal government has taken against a tech company in two decades.
https://t.co/WZvAfxjQ0u
Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller - An agreement saying an UberEats driver had to go to arbitration instead of suing in Ontario was so unfair it was invalid, the Supreme Court has ruled: https://t.co/i5ZNh24bII #contracts#arbitration#cdnlaw
"Many of these solutions will produce detailed data of workers’ movements throughout the day, allowing managers to hound employees in the name of productivity. Workers will also have no choice but to be tracked in this way if they want to keep their job." https://t.co/vLIao4TGCb
So many Canadians want to see our justice system in action, and virtual observer spaces in our #SCCVirtualCourtroom filled up fast. You can still watch the hearings live (and you'll see basically the same thing)! https://t.co/tDgcfuYc95
“What is becoming clear is the persistence of right wing and explicitly racist and sexist politics among powerful individuals in the field of artificial intelligence.” https://t.co/3Rddx1TRgx
On today's Daily: college is supposed to be the great equalizer. Then the coronavirus struck, sending students home and reinforcing those divisions. @caseysjournal with a powerful dispatch:
https://t.co/dnzWeBQU1o
📢 Young folks in #Canada:
The fact that the benefit amount for the newly-announced Canada Emergency Student Benefit ($1250/month) is lower than that of #CERB ($2000/month) is absolutely something we should be questioning. @JustinTrudeau#cdnpoli#COVID19
Another little quarantine project I put together in @figmadesign. I used the @MessariCrypto API and Google Sheet Sync by @DavidWilliames to feed the price and volume data into the designs. Here it is 🤓
I’ve worked with Sketch for a while now, but decided to play with @figmadesign over the last couple of weekends. I put together a #bitcoin wallet for iOS and it was a lot of fun! Here it is:
.@antievictionmap new map tracking tenant protections (rent freezes, eviction moratoriums, etc) in the wake of COVID-19 is up! Feel free to directly add policies and petitions to the map for your various cities/counties/states! https://t.co/rozc0B59Gy