Mainstreet Tech & Consequences: An in-depth look

CBC Radio’s Mainstreet has been taking stock of the anxieties people have about digital technology, including concerns about privacy and surveillance, bullying, and porn consumption.

Their series Tech & Consequences features perspectives on how technology has been affecting us from a wide range of experts in different fields. 

Below are highlights from several guests featured in the series including:

• Tim Caulfield,  a University of Alberta law professor and Canada research chair in health and law policy,​
• David Deane, a professor at the Atlantic School of Theology,
• Dean Irvine, an English professor at Dalhousie University,
• Stan Kutcher, Sun Life Financial chair in adolescent mental health at the IWK and Dalhousie University and
• Christopher Parsons a post-doctoral fellow and managing director at the Citizen Lab in Toronto. 

On mobile? You can listen to the highlight reel here.