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How many of those annoying emails have your received over the last week (including maybe one from us!) asking you to confirm you want to continue receiving information from a company or publication? That’s because the European Union has just introduced tough new privacy laws when it comes to sharing digital information. Today in The Conversation Canada, Sara Bannerman and Charnjot Shokar of McMaster University compare how Ottawa is lagging behind other countries when it comes to digital privacy legislation.
We’ve also got two articles on viruses (not the computer kind): Michael Armstrong of Brock University explains the math behind why eradicating Ebola outbreaks quickly is essential to stopping the virus from going viral; Arinjay Banerjee and Vikram Misra from the University of Saskatchewan and Karen Mossman of McMaster University provide a scientific history lesson on the search for the very first virus on earth.
And finally…have you noticed that bag of chips you just bought is smaller than it used to be, but the price is still the same? It’s called “shrinkflation” in the food industry and Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie University tells us why thousands of products have shrunk over the years.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chats with Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer at Facebook, during the launch of an artificial intelligence research lab Friday, September 15, 2017 in Montreal.
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Sara Bannerman, McMaster University; Charnjot Shokar, McMaster University
The Liberal government is in the process of wooing tech giants as economic partners. They use Facebook data to help them win elections. How then will they regulate the privacy of our data?
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A health-care worker wears virus protective gear at a treatment center in Bikoro Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 13, 2018.
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Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University
History, and math, tell us that the Ebola virus spreads exponentially quickly. This means Ebola is a global problem and all nations need to rally -- to stop the epidemic fast.
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Health workers get ready to spray insecticide in advance of the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to combat the mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus in this Jan. 26, 2016 photo.
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Arinjay Banerjee, University of Saskatchewan; Karen Mossman; Vikram Misra, University of Saskatchewan
Recent discoveries of ancient viruses are helping scientists understand their origins.
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You’re not imagining things. The quantities of packaged foods really are shrinking as food manufacturers try to avoid hiking prices. Shrinkflation however is beginning to irritate consumers who feel they’re being cheated.
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Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University
Canadians are bargain-hunters when it comes to food, and so food manufacturers try to keep prices low. But does that mean they should engage in 'shrinkflation?'
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Health + Medicine
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Tim Spector, King's College London; Cristina Menni, King's College London
Gut microbe metabolites can tell us a lot about our health.
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Culture + Society
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Filip Reyntjens, University of Antwerp
Political ethics and sports don't match well. The recent deal between Rwanda and Arsenal is potentially a case in point.
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Science + Technology
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Isabelle Sin, Victoria University of Wellington; Gail Pacheco, Auckland University of Technology
New research shows that parenthood contributes to the gender pay gap and penalises all women, particularly those who were on high incomes before having children.
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