Jesse Brown

Why do we love Internet doomsday stories?

Cyber attack! Millions disrupted! The largest in Internet history! It almost broke the Internet!…

by Jesse Brown - Friday, March 29, 2013
Text message privacy just the start when cell patterns are like fingerprints

Jesse Brown weighs in on the Supreme Court’s decision

by Jesse Brown - Wednesday, March 27, 2013
A modest proposal that could save Canadian film

It’s nice to have famous readers.
Last week I posted an interview with George…

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Infamous hacker/troll Weev jailed ‘for doing arithmetic’

Jesse Brown on the grey world of digital information sharing

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Not everyone in the industry supports Starlight, the proposed Canadian film channel

Internet startup says the channel will hurt its “unbundled” cable plan

by Jesse Brown - Thursday, March 14, 2013
The cure for Facebook’s feature-bloat? New features!

Why does simplification involve so many confusing features?

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The myth of tech-savvy kids

This may be the most technologically illiterate generation of computer-using kids yet

by Jesse Brown - Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Demanding a grown-up debate about child porn

Some opinions are so ignorant and wrong that those who choose to express them…

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Google Glass is coming

The possibly game-changing, definitely dorky technology is nearly ready for prime time, writes Jesse Brown

by Jesse Brown - Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Google plans to block funds to websites based on piracy allegations

Google’s plans come at the expense of its own users’ interests, writes Jesse Brown

by Jesse Brown - Monday, February 18, 2013
Why the Privacy Commissioner should get off Facebook

Jesse Brown on the atrocious state of data privacy in Ottawa

by Jesse Brown - Thursday, February 14, 2013
C-30 may be dead, but you have every reason to worry about your privacy

Ottawa’s data leak policy remains: don’t ask, don’t tell, as Jesse Brown explains

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Cloud hate: why Ottawa keeps losing our data

What’s the difference between the federal government and Facebook?

by Jesse Brown - Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Privacy: Be afraid, be very afraid. But don’t be afraid of Twitter.

Jesse Brown defines the real threats to your privacy

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, February 5, 2013
China hacks the New York Times after getting bad press

Jesse Brown asks questions in the fallout

by Jesse Brown - Friday, February 1, 2013
Plucking porn off the Vine

Is this the end of dirty little videos on the Internet?

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Vine lets you tweet six-second videos, just like you never wanted

Twitter’s new “micro-video” app is more than it seems

by Jesse Brown - Friday, January 25, 2013
Dawson College disgraces itself in defending ethical hacker’s expulsion

They should have stuck with “no comment”, writes Jesse Brown

by Jesse Brown - Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Facebook’s B.S.-powered search engine

A new search tool is only as good as the information we post, writes Jesse Brown

by Jesse Brown - Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Techno-McCarthyism and the death of Aaron Swartz

Internet idealist fell victim to a misguided war over information

by Jesse Brown - Monday, January 14, 2013