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COMP 607 (pre-2015 cohorts)
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Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Information Technology is a course offered as part of the MScIS program in SCIS. This group is intended for course members and associated staff only. However, it is an open group, which means that (if the topic interests you) you are free to join it, whether you are associated with the course or not though, of course, you will not have access to the course Moodle site nor will you be able to gain accreditation unless you register for the course.
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Ayodeji Randle - COMP 607 Portfolio
Last updated January 9, 2024 - 12:04pm by Ayodeji Randle in the group COMP 607 Winter 2024Welcome to my portfolio, a comprehensive showcase of my proficiency in addressing the learning objectives of COMP 607: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Information Technology. Explore my work and insights as I navigate the intricate landscape of...-
Ayodeji Randle - COMP 607 Portfolio
Last updated January 9, 2024 - 12:04pm by Ayodeji Randle in the group COMP 607 Winter 2024Welcome to my portfolio, a comprehensive showcase of my proficiency in addressing the learning objectives of COMP 607: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Information Technology. Explore my work and insights as I navigate the intricate landscape of... 
Week 12 Research Topic
By Temitayo Oloyede (Tayo) in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort December 5, 2015 - 10:20amWeek 12 Research Topic: Cybercrime and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)Norton Canada define Cybercrime as “simply a crime that has some kind of computer or cyber aspect to it”. Advanced persistent threat (APT) which is a form of...Week 11 Reflections
By Temitayo Oloyede (Tayo) in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort December 1, 2015 - 11:49amSocial media has definitely had a huge impact on how I relate and interact with friends and family. Although I am not a heavy user of social media sites, I still interact with people on there a decent amount of the time. Like many people, I have...Week 10 Reflections
By Temitayo Oloyede (Tayo) in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 23, 2015 - 8:22pmWeek 10 ReflectionsThis week, we looked at globalization and how the internet has changed the way the world operates. One of the specific focuses was on education and how online learning has brought a diverse element to the way education is...Debate: Online courses should be tailored to cultural, ethnic, or national audiences
By Temitayo Oloyede (Tayo) in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 23, 2015 - 8:04pmOnline learning or distant education as some call it is an increasingly popular method of learning that involves students learning and accessing course material from a remote location. This method of learning has brought a whole new dimension to...Week 9 Reflections
By Temitayo Oloyede (Tayo) in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 16, 2015 - 9:11pmThis week’s debate was quite an interesting one as it deal with the use of social media by employers in monitoring of employees. My point of view is that every employee needs to know the policy of the organization they work for. If an...COMP 607: Reflections on week 9
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 15, 2015 - 7:34pmI am certain that most people can relate to this week’s topic. Most professionals have been touched in one way or the other by an employer either monitoring traffic over work networks or being requested for social network account names. As...Fishbowl Debate - Social media being used as a human resource tool by employers
By Temitayo Oloyede (Tayo) in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 9, 2015 - 2:56pmThe use of social media has become quite a popular trend over the past decade or so. In recent years, it has become so popular that employers and corporate organizations sometimes result to social media to dig up information about their employees....US Charges a suspect with cyber terrorism crimes for the first time (by Pierluigi Paganini )
By Temitayo Oloyede (Tayo) 9 November 2015 @ 8:50amsecurityaffairs.co - US Charges a suspect with cyber terrorism crimes for the first time by Pierluigi Paganini http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/41147/hacking/man-charged-cyber-terrorism.html This bookmark is to the shocking and baffling case of a...
- Jon Dron uploaded the file robot reading to a child in the style of a lino cut
- Jon Dron uploaded the file Amish cyborg
- Jon Dron uploaded the file intertwingled technologies and humans
Group debate, "For" group please check in here.
By Geoff Loken March 12, 2014 - 3:10pm Comments (3)Online courses should be tailored to cultural, ethnic, or national audiences. "For" Group, we need to report in and get moving on this. These are our names: Ahmed Azunna Bolanle Nelson Farhat I can't cc on The Landing, or send an email...
There’s A Difference Between Private And Personal
By Jon Dron 10 January 2013 @ 6:18pm Comments (11)techcrunch.com - An interesting reflection on the difference between 'private' and 'personal', and ways that social media are distorting our perceptions of this, framed in the context of the re-posting of a photo of Randi Zuckerberg's family so that the whole...Study: Facebook Profiles May Not Reveal What Employers Think They Do
By Jon Dron 10 January 2013 @ 6:09pm Comments (4)socialtimes.com - It turns out the HR departments that check out profiles of prospective employees on social sites are usually looking for the wrong things. The people they appear to like are teh exact opposite of those they should employ. Not a big surprise, I...Can We Subpoena The Monkey? Why The Monkey Self-Portraits Are Likely In The Public Domain | Techdirt
By Jon Dron 19 July 2011 @ 9:40amwww.techdirt.com - Thoughtful and interestingly complex article on who might own the copyright to a picture of a macaque monkey taken by itself. (spoiler: the image used here is almost certainly in the public domain)Rory McGreal's blog
By Jon Dron 26 April 2011 @ 12:48pmlanding.athabascau.ca - Rory is Athabasca University's Associate VP Research as well as being the UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources. His blog is full of interesting discussions and useful material relating to open access, copyright, patent law and so on,...Software Patents and Open Source: The Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights
By Jon Dron 26 April 2011 @ 12:42pmwww.vjolt.net - A scholarly article discussing the issues regarding software patents and how they relate to open source movements in general. It's a little old, rather over-focused on the US, but still useful. Full details... VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF LAW &...Computer crime in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By Jon Dron 26 April 2011 @ 12:38pmen.wikipedia.org - A good starting point with some excellent links to further resources about computer crime and legislation as it applies in Canada Important disclaimer for students and other researchers using this: as ever, Wikipedia should be treated as a learning...Computer Law - Guide to Computer Law - Computer Law Info
By Jon Dron 26 April 2011 @ 11:47amwww.hg.org - Good list of annotated resources relating to computer law. US-centric but covers a fair amount of ground relating to international law too.The Eternal Value of Privacy
By Jon Dron 26 April 2011 @ 11:45amwww.schneier.com - Thoughtful essay on the need for and nature of privacyFacebook's Mark Zuckerberg Claims Privacy Is Dead
By Jon Dron 26 April 2011 @ 11:44amwww.switched.com - A controversial but somewhat-supported claim from someone whose business depends on breaking down privacy. More accurately, I think, the notion of privacy is evolving and may privacy itself may be half asleep, but there are lots of people trying to...Lessig: The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge
By Jon Dron 21 April 2011 @ 12:29pmwww.youtube.com - Coherently argued YouTube presentation from Lawrence Lessig on the problems of copyright in academia and related professions in the Internet Age.
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