Often characterised by endless terms and conditions and tiring technicalities, consumer privacy is rarely light-hearted. In a bid to engage audiences with its privacy settings, Apple is side-stepping the small print and bringing privacy woes to life in an ad filled with funny privacy mishaps.

With data-sharing enabling everything from smarter cities to more sinister surveillance, the public debate around privacy is becoming increasingly complex. Canvas8 spoke to Alisa Frik, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, to understand how people are weighing up the pay-offs.

The tech world may play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 crisis, with tracing apps potentially limiting the spread of the virus within communities. But will privacy fears hinder these efforts? Canvas8 spoke to eight Americans about sharing health and location data during the pandemic.

Amid efforts to trace and track COVID-19, governments around the world have ditched centralised apps in favour of more privacy-focused strategies. Led by Google and Apple, these apps use Bluetooth to warn of potential exposure and don't store information about users’ contact history.