Compliance

Over the last several years, many Canadian researchers and news outlets have commented on the rise of political propaganda bots on social media platforms. There are reports of Twitter bot usage in Quebec politics as early as 2012, and yet it seems these trends continue unabated without any meaningful regulation. Reasonable calls for a digital campaigning code of conduct seem... Read More

Following the discovery that the private data of 87 million Facebook users was accessed by data mining company, Cambridge Analytica, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress, discussing everything from data privacy to Facebook’s business model. This event has spurred significant conversations about data security, privacy and how aggressively corporations need to protect and control consumer data. Herjavec... Read More

Following the recent controversy of Facebook's data scandal linked to Cambridge Analytica, our CEO & Founder, Robert Herjavec, spoke to CNBC about social media privacy concerns and why it's time for the federal government to step in to regulate the private data of its citizens from private corporations.  "If the government truly wants to protect us, it needs to put constraints... Read More

If the public has learned anything about Mr. Zuckerberg's trip to Washington, it's about how brutally honest the committees have been in their critique of Facebook’s global mistake, costing 87 million users their privacy. While Facebook is definitely to blame when it comes to the poor handling of its users data, it became very clear throughout Tuesday and Wednesday's hearings, that there is... Read More

Facebook recently came under fire when it was discovered that the data of 87 million Facebook users were harvested by a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica. On April 10, our CEO & Founder, Robert Herjavec, spoke to CNBC about the possibility of a federal data protection law being introduced by the U.S. government as a result of Facebook CEO Mark... Read More