The sharing of intimate images by digital means is something that has created new issues for Canadians. This is reflected in the creation of laws for non-consensual intimate image sharing or ‘revenge porn’ laws. The issues get murkier when it comes to intimate images and youth as child pornography laws often also apply to the …
Presented at the SERENE-RISC Spring workshop 2016. As anybody who uses a PC has discovered, the “free” software industry is a mess. Customers have become very suspicious of every offer, and use a jaundiced eye to double-check each checkbox and click. Still they make mistakes and end up with unwanted software. This industry now makes …
The Berkman Klein Harmful speech Online project has created a collection of essays that both draw from research and provide opinions to discuss a range of perspectives on this issue of harmful speech online. It provides pieces looking at Framing the Problem, International Perspectives, and Approaches, Interventions, and Solutions. This collection could provide a valuable …
Never mind sophisticated and persistent threats, what about simple and opportunistic ones? Have we closed the door on attacks that require little investment on the part of attackers? In particular, are we still shipping software without the most basic of security policies ? B. Knieriem, X. Zhang, P. Levine, F. Breitinger & I. Baggili surveyed …
From the SERENE-RISC Workshop held in April 2016 in Vancouver, Canada. Social Media Analytics for Intelligence and Security Informatics Christopher Yang – Drexel University In this talk, we’ll discuss some of the social media and data analytics work we have done on the DIBBs data archive. The DIBBS data archive is a 3-year project funded …
The report “Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2016” by Kathryn Keighley at the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics is available from the station website. This report was released the 24th of July 2017. With regards to cybercrime the report includes the following In 2016, the number and rate of child pornography incidents continued …
There is a considerable amount of evidence on the control and censorship of social media in China. On top of this there has long been suspected that there is a system of astroturfing, or the posting of large numbers of comments from fake accounts to direct online conversation. In China people hired to make these …
Jonathon Lusthaus and Federico Varese provide more insight into the phenomena of online crime groups. To provide more of an understanding of the offline nature of online groups they took two field trips to Romania to investigate the region around Râmnicu Vâlcea, a local known for cybercrime. The Region of Ca Piteşti, which contains this …
First, today we’re launching a new web-based privacy dashboard so you can see and control your activity data from Microsoft including location, search, browsing, and Cortana Notebook data across multiple Microsoft services. Second, we’re introducing in Windows 10 a new privacy set up experience, simplifying Diagnostic data levels and further reducing the data collected at …
“What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other,” Ms. Conway told the paper. “You can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets — any number of ways.” Surveillance can even be carried out with “microwaves that turn into cameras,” she added. “We know this is a fact …