AI is transforming health care, but are our laws keeping up?

Professor Teresa Scassa @teresascassa.bsky.social is a co-lead on a project funded by CIHR examining how Canada regulates AI-driven medical devices.

Learn more: bit.ly/4tHWRa1

I enjoyed speaking with @mgeist.bsky.social about this recent court decision with interesting implications for Canadian privacy law. @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social

The terrific @colleenmflood.bsky.social speaking on regulation of AI enabled medical devices at the University of Sao Paulo School of Public Health today.

Back at you, Michael- and thanks so much!

Routine Retail Facial Recognition Systems an Emerging Privacy No-Go Zone in Canada? (This post also appears on my blog at http://www.teresascassa.ca)

I've just posted a piece that considers whether the use of facial recognition tech in the retail sector in Canada is emerging as a privacy no-go zone: open.substack.com/pub/teresasc... @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social @cendemtech.bsky.social @oipcbc.bsky.social @anabrandusescu.bsky.social

My new post looks at the judicial review decision on the BC Privacy Commissioner's Order following the joint investigation of Clearview AI. It also considers the challenges of enforcing compliance in Canada's complicated privacy landscape @oipcbc.bsky.social @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social

Wendy Wong setting the tone for this year’s VIPSs conference with her talk on data and human rights. @rebootcomm.bsky.social @emilylaidlaw.bsky.social

Legal Definitions of Intimate Images in the Age of Sexual Deepfakes and Generative AI This article explores the evolution of Canadian criminal and civil responses to non-consensual synthetic intimate image creation and distribution. In recent years, the increasing accessibility of this...

My most recent article "Legal Definitions of Intimate Images in the Age of Sexual Deepfakes and Generative AI" has been published in the McGill Law Journal

Read it here!

Digital Health ID as a Privacy Workaround? The Problem(s) with Ontario’s Bill 231 Ontario plans to introduce digital identity services (Digital ID) to provide Ontarians with better access to their personal health information (PHI) in the provincial Electronic Health Record (EHR).

Ontario is planning to introduce a new Digital Health ID in Bill 231 - currently before the legislature. My new post offers some thoughts on this bill: open.substack.com/pub/teresasc...
#phipa #privacy #digitalID

Automating Public Services: Learning from
Cancelled Systems by Joanne Redden, Jessica Brand, Ina Sander and Harry Warne carnegieuk.org/wp-content/u...

I'm so pleased to see that a paper I wrote with my doctoral student Nur Kumru on privacy regulatory sandboxes for Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner is now published: www.ipc.on.ca/en/resources.... @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social

Crafting a More Nuanced Right to an Explanation in Administrative Law: A comment on Ali v. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness A recent decision of the Federal Court of Canada (Ali v.

The Federal Court of Canada recently considered procedural fairness issues related to automated decision-making - I explore the implications of this decision in a post on my new substack: teresascassa.substack.com/p/crafting-a... @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social

New Job! Postdoctoral Visitor in AI & Governance at #YorkU (Canada). Deadline 20 December 2024.

#STS #law #AIgovernance

More details about the role are contained in the job ad: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

Working with myself, @tdagne.bsky.social & Rob Gehl

The Shifting Value of Personal Data Emerging data rights can give individuals and communities more control over both the personal and non-personal data that they generate.

“The Shifting Value of Personal Data”

🗣 OPINION par/by Teresa Scassa
📰 CIGI
www.cigionline.org/articles/the...

Join us on December 2nd for a conversation with Dr. Kristen Thomasen and Prof. Jane Bailey examining issues of surveillance and security in the smart home context.

ℹ️/🎟 www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

“Automating housing (in)justice: The promise and limits of ‘fair’ rent tech”
Discover a new blog by Tegan Cohen as part of The AI + Society's “Global Emerging Voices on AI and Society” blog series!
› www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data In 2018, the essay series Data Governance in the Digital Age anticipated some of the data governance issues that have emerged, such as surveillance capitalism and the economics of data, but did not co...

I was pleased to have my paper on the shifting value of personal data included in CIGI's collection titled The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Power of Data: www.cigionline.org/publications... @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social @cca-reports.ca #datagovernance #privacy

Hello Bluesky! I was looking for refuge from toXic X. Looking forward to seeing old friends, colleagues and contacts here.

Dr Catherine Régis, wearing black pants and a white sweater, stands between a busy white board and a large projection screen as she presents to an audience that can’t be seen on camera. The screen has a slide with the Queen’s Law logo and the words “Welcome” and “Comparison of Brazilian and Canadian Approached to the Regulation of Health AI”.

The unstoppable Dr. Catherine Régis bringing us home as we wrap up the day at Queen’s Law. The busy whiteboard is a reflection of a great day of dialogue comparing Brazilian and Canadian approaches to Health AI!

Queen’s Law Dean Colleen Flood stands at front of lecture hall in front of a large screen displaying a slideshow presentation. The slide on the screen is titled “Current gaps in regulation” and includes a list of gaps in Canada’s approach to the regulation of healthcare AI.

Queen’s Law Dean (and Canada’s leading health law scholar) Colleen Flood, unpacks some of what she sees as being the real glaring problems in Health Canada’s proposed approach to regulating Health AI. Hopefully HC’s consultation report is released soon!

Dr. Ana Estrella Haddad, who is Brazil’s National Secretary on Digital Health, Ministry of Health, stands behind a lectern and in front of a PowerPoint presentation projected onto the wall, at Queen’s University Law School. The title on the slide is “Self-declaration of race/colour, social name and address in the App.”

Learning now about Brazil’s digital health infrastructure and regulation of health AI. Thanks to Dr. Ana Estrella Haddad, who is Brazil’s National Secretary on Digital Health, Ministry of Health, for such an enlightening presentation!

Today is going to be a day of great conversations as we discuss regulation of Health AI.