Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2026

Petition calls on MPs to stop exempting themselves from privacy

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Canadians should sign this petition calling on the House of Commons to stop exempting themselves from privacy standards.  

The Conversation: "Canada’s three main federal political parties are working together to fight voter privacy rights"

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Last week I explained in  The Conversation  how " Canada’s three main federal political parties are working together to fight voter pri...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

C-4, privacy erasure bill, passes through committee with no debate of crucial privacy erasure clauses

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The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance completed its examination of  Bill C-4, An Act respecting certain affordability measures ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Parliamentarians undermine privacy and democracy with C-4

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Bill C-4 seeks to undermine Canadians' privacy rights in the troves of data held by federal political parties. A BC court case, about to...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Lawbytes podcast: How Canadian Political Parties Maximize Voter Data Collection and Minimize Privacy Safeguards

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My interview on Michael Geist's Lawbytes podcast, How Canadian Political Parties Maximize Voter Data Collection and Minimize Privacy Saf...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Canada's Bill C-65 would weaken privacy

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Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act , is currently being considered by Canada's House of Commons Standing Committee on P...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Does political parties' data collection affect democratic engagement?

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In our piece published in The Conversation , Julia Kalinina, Elizabeth Dubois, Nicole Goodman and I ask whether political parties' colle...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Privacy and Smart Cities: A Canadian Survey

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 My research with Angela Orasch on privacy and smart cities has now been published in the Canadian Journal of Urban Research .   Privacy and...
Friday, May 29, 2020

New book out: Canadian Communication Policy and Law

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 My new book Canadian Communication Policy and Law has just been published! The book is available in print and e-book formats and will...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Political parties' data collection may turn voters off

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My recent piece in The Conversation , written by Julia Kalinina, Nicole Goodma n and I, explores our research on how electors respond to pol...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Smart city privacy: a survey

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This piece , published in The Conversation , presents my research with Angela Orasch on Canadians' attitudes towards privacy in the cont...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Why was Canada's response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal so weak?

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Why was Canada's response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal so weak?  Charnjot Shokar and I explore in this piece, published on The Con...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

My Questions for Facebook at Canadian Ethics Committee

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On Thursday, Kevin Chan, Global Directeur and Head of Public Policy at Facebook Canada, and  Robert Sherman, Facebook's Deputy Chief Pri...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Universities should educate, not police copyright

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My op-ed on why universities should focus on educating faculty and students about copyright rather than online copyright enforcement is avai...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Who should own big data?

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Big data has a lot to offer, from curing disease  to fostering economic development  to fostering transparency .  At the same time, from go...