Media Smarts is the new name for the Media Awateness Network (I iiked the old name better; the new name makes it sound like media hurts). CIRA is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which to my mind really should stick to registering internet domain names and stop trying to be something it's not. Anyhow, between them they've developed the Online Commerce Cyber Security Consumer Tip Sheet. The advice is pretty basic and common-sense, and perhaps the most important is the warning to beware of in-app purchases. I have a few such apps - for example, the Major League Baseball app, through which I listen to Blue Jays games, and it's always trying to sell me things (especially video, which is absurd, because they have declared all of Canada to be in the Blue Jays blackout zone). But we didn't need CRIA to tell us this, and tghe Media Awareness Network can do better.
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