Trudeau takes aim at big tech, announces ‘Digital Charter’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says social media platforms and tech giants have failed Canadian users and it’s time the government stepped in. The so-called “Digital Charter” will outline the government’s expectations on issues such as data ownership, privacy protections and the online dissemination of hate — and Trudeau said the government is considering “meaningful” financial penalties for companies that break the rules.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/05/16/trudeau-takes-aim-at-big-tech-announces-digital-charter.html

White House declines to back Christchurch call to stamp out online extremism amid free speech concerns

The United States broke with 18 governments and five top American tech firms Wednesday by declining to endorse a New Zealand-led effort to curb extremism online, a response to the live-streamed shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 51. White House officials said free-speech concerns prevented them from formally signing onto the largest campaign to date targeting extremism online.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/15/white-house-will-not-sign-christchurch-pact-stamp-out-online-extremism-amid-free-speech-concerns/

Teens are using burner phones to hide what they do on the internet from their parents

"All the sudden she'd stop asking for her phone back and we'd be like, 'That's weird,'" Patrick Van Every said of his daughter, Jalyn.

https://www.businessinsider.com/teens-burner-phones-hide-online-activity-2019-5

Women make strides in TV, film production, but some are being left behind: study

Both Indigenous women and women of colour are still “significantly underemployed” in production, the non-profit organization Women in View found in an analysis of 5,000 film and TV contracts issued from 2014 to 2017.

https://o.canada.com/pmn/entertainment-pmn/canadian-tv-film-industry-making-progress-on-gender-but-not-race-study/wcm/f7246474-8407-4001-8df7-277aab05f7a5

8th-graders fight period stigma with a podcast

Kathaleen Restitullo and six of her fellow female eighth-graders decided they're tired of NOT talking about periods. So they made a podcast about it — called Sssh! Periods — and it's the middle school grand prize winner in the first-ever NPR Student Podcast Challenge.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/721729850/periods-why-these-eighth-graders-arent-afraid-to-talk-about-them

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