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NHL Data Science Project
Lola
Rememberence Day poppy

Vecor project 1
Project 2 – Photoshop Images
In these images, I used Photoshop to create The Grinch and a snowman. After I generated a background also using Photoshop to create a holiday-like theme.


Technology Article – The Issues Regarding Facial Recognition Technology
The Issues Regarding Facial Recognition Technology
Lola Lavin
Comprehensive issue
Facial recognition is a technology that tracks individuals without their knowledge or consent. This is an invasion of privacy, it can occur anywhere and at any time without you knowing. While this technology offers a way to keep devices safe from being invaded. It has also become an issue. The technology of facial recognition sometimes struggles with accuracy, the majority of times being in identifying people of color, women, or individuals with more non-Western features. Misidentification can also be an issue caused by this, leading to other false arrests or security breaches. Although governments and corporations have been using facial recognition for surveillance, this action is potentially invading citizens’ privacy. On top of this, these systems can be easily hacked. All in all facial recognition causes many questions to be asked about consent, data collection, and the ways it has been used on individuals who may not agree to this. This act has led to people questioning if this is a violation of rights.
Perspective
Facial recognition has pros and cons, although it has ability to improve security and convenience, it raises ethical concerns. On the beneficial side, it protects personal devices, safety, and public spaces, and can assist a lot rules in identifying criminals. However, facial recognition for surveillance cameras without an individual’s approval feels like an invasion of your privacy and a violation of human rights. To comprehend the idea that you can be monitored at any time without knowing is uncomfortable. Additionally, the inaccuracy of technology, particularly in the misidentification of people, is a significant issue. These issues can lead to even larger consequences, such as wrongful arrest or unnecessary security checks. Furthermore, the idea that governments and corporations utilize this technology without proper supervision only makes the problem more serious. Personally I believe that facial recognition should be discussed more in relation to human rights and should analyze the ethical concerns and be more aware of how citizens may be feeling around this issue.
Bibliography:
“Face Recognition Technology.” ACLU, www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/face-recognition-technology. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
“Face Recognition.” Electronic Frontier Foundation, www.eff.org/issues/face-recognition. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
Electronic Privacy Information Center. “Facial Recognition Technology.” Electronic Privacy Information Center, www.epic.org/issues/facial-recognition. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
“The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America.” Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, 2019, www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech/the-perpetual-lineup/. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
NHL Slideshow Presentation:
New June Summer Project ( illisterator, photoshop and photo generator)



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Owais’s Portfolio!



Technology Articles
By Owais Samad
Apple Intelligence and User Privacy
Summary Paragraph
Recently the question has arisen, “Is Apple really protecting our privacy?”. Many people have speculated about this topic and recently some truth has come out. As the iPhone 16 arrives, users are concerned about new “Apple Intelligence” being slowly integrated into their phones.
One of many concerns regarding Apple Intelligence is the reworked voice assistant, Siri, who will now be able to use Apple Intelligence to perform commands the user initiates. For instance, if you say, “What time did Owais say to meet him for lunch?” Siri will now be able to find that information and respond. This definitely creeped out some users who are scared for their security and privacy. As said in the CyberNews article, “After years of data exploitation reports by other big tech firms, users have a right to be skeptical”.
Critical Thoughts
Even I feel concerns regarding AI being integrated into our phones, and what right we will have to easily opt out of it. ChatGPT being involved makes me feel like something is fishy about all of this. There are also many significant worries about the amount of personal data AI can collect. It’s been known that Apple has sugar coated things like privacy issues in the past to its users, which obviously leaves users skeptical. Due to this, they may worry about what could occur following the AI tech integration that Apple is taking part of. Yes, there are tools that analyse our content, write essays, recognize photos, but truly where do we draw the line? Are we accelerating towards an AI future too fast?
Source
https://cybernews.com/ai-news/iphone-16-smart-siri-privacy-concern
Lack of difference in newer iPhone models
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With the new iPhone 16 being brought into the public eye, people on social media were quick to respond to the new phone, many of the responses being negative. It’s been a known thing that Apple has seemed to not put much thought into drastically changing the physical appearance to the iPhone, which has definitely been a disappointment to some, especially since truly not many changes to the iPhones physical appearance have changed since the iPhone 11 came out in 2019, nearly half a decade ago. The only differences we see as far as physical appearance goes are the display sizes, new colour variations, new camera look (only on 16 and 16+), and the new camera button placed on the side of the phone. Apple Intelligence is one of the most anticipated new features but has gotten much backlash, and the 15s are getting it too so it isn’t technically unique to the 16s.
Critical Thoughts
Despite the “under the hood” changes, many including myself, still feel the need for more of a change. For instance if we look all the way back to the 5-6s, or more recently the XR-11 Pro Max, we see a much more drastic difference than what we’re seeing now in my opinion. I’m unsure if it’s laziness on Apple’s part or just poor planning but I genuinely think it would be more beneficial if they lengthened the time between iPhone release dates. Maybe even just half a year more could make a bigger difference when it comes to iPhones because I always tend to feel that they’re getting a bit rushed, and Apple is just throwing whatever they can in there to make the “new” phone seem cooler. Honestly I don’t want to be convinced, I want to look and use the phone and be sold. For me that was how I felt with the Iphone Xs, and 11s when they were released, and nowadays that feeling is almost never reciprocated.
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My Word And Excel Project
Shakespeares, Romeo And Juliet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CpC38XhoCcUegXuhm_EWRLf7gtfAosuZ-3MLznsNJ9k/edit?tab=t.0
NEW WORK:


Lucien Portfolio DA9 25
This is my halloween video project from October.

This is my remembrance day poppy from November.


These 2 were submitted as a part of my winter art project.
Article 1: RedBull Oracle Racing RB-20 and RB-21
https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/330792/verstappen-exposes-rb21-s-biggest-problem.html
Summary:
Last year Redbull Racing’s RB-20 was extremely underwhelming, while in the past they’ve historically had pretty decent cars and extremely talented drivers especially as of recent however last season their car was an absolute mess with Verstappen’s brakes failing catastrophically in the middle of the Australian GP leaving the back of his car on fire. Max Verstappen stated that the car was “less compliant than its predecessors” later after the season had ended Redbull stated that the RB-20 had frequent balance issues, Christian Horner the Redbull team principal said in a press conference “It’s disconnected front and rear. We can see that. Our wind tunnel doesn’t say that, but the track says that. So it’s getting on top of that, because obviously when you have that, it means you can’t trust your tools. Then you have to go back to track data and previous experience.” however it seems that they might not have learned from their mistakes, as in pre-season testing last month the RB-21 had not lived up to the expectations of Verstappen and their new rookie Liam Lawson however they’ve both acknowledged that its better than last years it was still lagging behind Mclaren (their main competitors for the world title) by about 0.244 seconds on the first day of testing however this might just be Verstappen getting used to the car as on the 3rd day he beat Oscar Piastri in time by about 0.374 seconds, Verstappen even saying “In terms of balance, it does feel a bit better now on corner entry and in the middle of the corner. But on the other hand, there are still problems with the kerbs and with the bumps,” so while the RB-21 has improved on the failure of the RB-20 It still has some major unresolved problems.
My Thoughts:
I really hope that the RB-21 performs a lot better than it did last year however just I predict that as time goes on and more GPs are played it will reveal even more problems with the RB-21 just like how last year in the beginning of the season there weren’t to many problems with the RB-20 however as time went on more and more problems became apparent, as I personally am a big redbull as well as a Max Verstappen fan I hope and believe that he can manage to pull away with world title this season just like how last season he still managed to win world champion title even though they’re cars may not be as great as a lot of the other teams cars are.
Article 2: Ps5 Pro
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ps5-pro

Summary:
The Ps5 Pro is a new upgraded version of the base Ps5 releasing on November 7th that has been facing tons of backlash from playstation fans due to essentially a slightly better ps5 with no disc drive.It also has the price of 700 usd which is a whole lot more than the starting price of the ps5 (300 usd).
My Thoughts:
I think this is an absolute waste of material, time, webspace and money why would anyone go out walk to a game store and drop a whole $700 (usd) for essentially a ps5 but a tiny bit better but that might not even end up being true because most games are upwards of 100 gb meaning with no disk drive the ps5 will always have insane download times for almost every game and the 2 most likely reasons that they removed the disk drive in the first place are one: to save money and two: because they want to make even more money by forcing you to only buy games off of their online store. In conclusion the overall thought and idea of the ps5 pro is just a dumb waste of money.
Article 3: Huawei Tri-fold phone
Summary:

Huawei unveiled their new over $2000 tri-folding phone, the “Mate XT” so far pre-orders have exceeded 6.5 million According to Lori Chang, a senior analyst at Isaiah Research, the Mate XT is powered by the same Kirin 9010 5G processor that was featured in the Pura 70 smartphone series, which was released in April. This device is considered significant for resisting U.S. technology restrictions.She noted that recent assessments suggest the Huawei Mate XT may be experiencing production yield issues with key components, such as the panel, cover glass, and hinges.The release of the Mate XT, which analysts highlight as featuring a domestically-produced chipset, showcases Huawei’s capability to overcome U.S. sanctions. It also strengthens its competition against Apple in China, where some consumers have criticised the new iPhone 16 for lacking AI features.
My thoughts:
I think that unlike the Ps5 pro this is a useful update too a product with a reasonable price considering that single fold phones now a days are around $3000 (usd) so considering this it’s actually kind of a steal, though considering it’s made, produced and designed in China its likely that it was made at a greatly reduced price, though due to this i’ve heard that tons of scalpers have moved in and most common people will have to pay up to 10’000 dollars to get it which is the reason i think that more companies should include pre-order/buying amount limits.In conclusion I think that Huawei’s new phone is a great innovation on an already great phone.
This is a link to my NHL prediction slideshow.

This is an image of a field with a dragon, a knight and fire edited in.

This was an a photo of an MP4/4 but I replaced it with the current f1 Mclaren car

This is a vector image I created of a door in the forest.

This is a vector image of a house.
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