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Ontario's Largest School Boards Sue Social Media Giants for Disrupting Students' Fundamental Right to Education

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
PDSB, Cyberbullying, School, Attention, Snap Inc., OCDSB, Toronto District School Board, Learning, Achievement Medal, Aggression, Risk, Social media, Mental health, Behavior informatics, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, TDSB, Student, Snapchat, Heart, Safety, Embury, ByteDance, TCDSB, Peel District School Board, Nursing

Students are experiencing an attention, learning, and mental health crisis because of prolific and compulsive use of social media products.

Key Points: 
  • Students are experiencing an attention, learning, and mental health crisis because of prolific and compulsive use of social media products.
  • This action calls on social media giants to remediate these enormous costs to the education system, to redesign their products to keep students safe.
  • Neinstein LLP, a Toronto-based boutique litigation firm, has been retained by the aforementioned school boards to represent them in their fight for social media change.
  • The goal of the litigation is to provide school boards with the resources needed to support student programming and services, and to respond to the school-based problems social media giants have caused.

Digital Check Corp. Records 1.5 Million Check Scanners Manufactured at California Assembly Plant

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Digital, News America Marketing, Quality control, Embury, Engineering

Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Check Corp., a global leader in check imaging technology, has now produced more than 1.5 million check scanners at its manufacturing facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California, the company announced today.

Key Points: 
  • Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Check Corp., a global leader in check imaging technology, has now produced more than 1.5 million check scanners at its manufacturing facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California, the company announced today.
  • The total includes various models of TellerScan ® and CheXpress ® scanners, along with select models of SmartSource ® scanners, dating back to 2004.
  • Product design is done by in-house engineers in California and Michigan; assembly, quality assurance, distribution, and repairs all take place at the Southern California facility.
  • The 1.5 million-unit total includes only domestically produced models assembled at Digital Check’s plant in California.