When a brand name is used as a verb, you know that brand has become ubiquitous in our lives. For many years now, “Googling” has become the primary way to retrieve information for many of us who lives in this highly digitalized society; and these search results we consume are…

Massive Hidden Labour Amazon’s Super Bowl commercial #BeforeAlexa was streamed to millions of viewers. In this 90-second ad, Alexa was portrayed as several obsolete roles in different historical scenarios — a maid that lowered room temperature by breaking a window of her master’s house; a joker that told a joke by deprecating himself…

A few weeks ago, I’ve received two have-I-been-pwned notifications in just one week. This means that my personal data (my email and password) have been leaked twice through two data breach incidents. Now, I have been “pwned” eight times in total through various data breach incidents. I got curious about…

Background In 2018, two bills were set out to end territorial ratings — often referred to as “postal code discrimination” — in the automobile industry. Bill 44, titled Ending Automobile Insurance Discrimination in the Greater Toronto Area Act was struck down in the Ontario legislature on November 1st, 2018. Bill 42…

The Rise of 6G In the 2030s, the world has entered a new paradigm of wireless communication. The sixth generation (6G) of mobile communication is widespread globally and offers data speeds that are 100 times faster than 4G LTE networks and five times faster than 5G networks (Alsharif et al., 2020). The mobile ultra-broadband…

On October 6, 2020, the The House Antitrust Report on Big Tech led by staffers for the House Judiciary Committee’s in the United States is released, with a conclusion that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google’s anti-competitive stance has “hindered innovation, reduced consumer choice and weakened democracy.” (Fung, CNN Buisness, 2020)…