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Information & Ethics committee Yes. I'm really glad you asked that question, because I love talking about these good examples as opposed to some of the scarier and more extreme practices that can be found. Some examples of great Canadian social media companies include Storybird, which is Ottawa-based, I belie
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee I guess it depends on how you define social media—if you think of it purely as Facebook as social media, that's its business model and that's how it operates. I take a broader definition of social media, because the kinds of social media kids use include games and all kinds of di
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee There have been some developments and some recommendations in the EU. I'm not up to date enough on that to know where they are in that process. They did a huge study in the EU, which ended recently. Academics and a number of government agencies studied these types of issues with
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee Comparing it to something like alcohol is a bit tricky, because there are proven health risks. There are adverse effects on development and physical development and all kinds of terrible things that can happen to young children if they're exposed to alcohol too young. I think abo
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee One of the actually very positive aspects of COPPA was that one section of it said parents had the right to contact companies and find out all the data that a company had collected on their child and to put in a request for the data to be destroyed. According to people who have f
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee Yes: the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act in the U.S.
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee It depends what the genie includes, I guess, in terms of being public and living online. It's hard to know if that's even something we should be trying to prevent and prohibit. We're trying to figure out the best way to do it, the best way to welcome kids into this world they're
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee I'll leave the broader parts of the question to my co-presenters here. In terms of kids and user agreements, there definitely need to be some changes. I've read a lot of end-user licence agreements for service directed to kids. They include all the same types of clauses that you
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee Yes, I definitely think so. Yes, in pointing out the two trends, both models have resulted in some pretty clear infringements of kids' rights and some huge problems. Banning kids from Facebook hasn't kept kids off Facebook, as you've said, and creating the walled gardens has crea
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes
Information & Ethics committee Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you today. Over the past several years my research has focused on some of the social media sites most popular among children, from online communities like Neopets to virtual worlds like Club Penguin. These types of sites don't look ve
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Sara Grimes