WeRobot special issue is now available open access! Big ups to @kristenthomasen.bsky.social & @suziedunn.bsky.social for gettin' 'er done. My article deep dives into "interoperability" and what on earth it's doing in gov't so you don't have to 😉 digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol23/i...
Huge gratitude to @suziedunn.bsky.social, Lucie Guilbault, & the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology for hosting this issue & all their work to see it into publication. Huge congrats to all the authors for their excellent papers!
This is the 1st ever We Robot peer-review journal collection 🎉🤖
The People's Consultation on AI has released the submissions it received! Posted below and available in a shared dropbox. I took a peak as they rolled in, and it was really heartening reading how much it meant to people to have this chance to engage with the issues & provide meaningful input. #PCAI
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
The U.K.'s communications watchdog Ofcom said it has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X over reports that its AI chatbot Grok is producing non-consensual sexualized deepfakes of women and children.
Ooof. I can’t believe X chose this case, and this place, to fight a global takedown order.
Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one.
It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/
A national AI strategy is too important to "sprint" through in 30 days. I've signed an open letter alongside 160+ civil society & human rights groups, academics, experts, and advocates, protesting Minister Solomon's "consultation" and demanding a re-do:
bccla.org/policy-submi...
The Danish government has cross-party support to "clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice." 1/n
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Join us next week for another thought-provoking panel in the CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series 2025: Freedom to Move!
🗓 June 25, 2025
🕐 1PM EST
📍 Hybrid (in-person and online)
🥪 Lunch provided
🎟 Free with registration → www.eventbrite.ca/e/cippic-sum...
Image of the table of contents for volume 69, issue 4 of the McGill Law Journal (2024), a special issue titles Reimagining Justice: Artificial Intelligence's Power for Redress and Division.
A joy to find this special issue on reimagining justice vis-à-vis AI in my mailbox. I look forward to revisiting provocative articles by @teresascassa.bsky.social , @suziedunn.bsky.social , Pascale Chapdelaine, Gideon Christian, and my colleague Peer Zumbansen's spicy intro. 🔥 @mcgill.ca
✨ Publication alert ✨
We are excited to share our most recent publication in the Canadian Journal of Communication, which examines how Canadian secondary schools address TFSV within their educational curricula, policies, and legislation.
Check it out! 👇 cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Congratulations Alex and Krizelle! It was so great teaching such smart students in our Law & Technology course 🎉
Great essay by @daniellecitron.bsky.social and @ariezra.bsky.social -- "Digital Authoritarianism" - discussing a tactic of attacking victims then falsely labeling victims as abusers to invite additional attacks lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...
Join: "Staying Aligned with Global Standards and Commitment on Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence (TFGBV)"
🗓 Date: 12 June 2025
🕙Time: 10:00 – 11:15 AM (EST)
📍Hosted by: UN Women & SVRI’s TFGBV Community of Practice
👉 Join on Zoom Here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8932347881...
NEW REPORT (and a CW - CSAM): Today my colleague Shelby Grossman & I have a new research report about AI-generated child sex abuse material (AI CSAM). Read the report here: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/ai-csam... [1/6]
A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors.
🔗 www.404media.co/no-one-knows...
Canadian civil society and policy experts call on the government to advance a coherent digital policy reform agenda:
Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
A Canadian was behind the MrDeepFakes website
The site featured non-consensual videos of celebrities, politicians, influencers, and popular instagramers
People used this site to find people to hire to make sexual videos of their spouses and friends
The site was shut down following this reporting
One of the world's largest deepfake porn sites has shut down
Writing any interesting law or policy pieces on Democracy and the Information Society?
Submit an abstract for the Canadian Technology Law Conference by May 5th
Organized by @schulichlaw.bsky.social's Palmer Chair @karanicolas.bsky.social
Join CanRepair for a lunch and learn on Your Right to Repair
📅 Tuesday, May 27, 2025
⏰ 12:00-2:00pm (ADT)
📍Dalhousie Computer Science building Room 429 or on Zoom
Organized by @arosborough.bsky.social & @cdntechlaw.bsky.social
Register here!
Join the Canadian Women's Foundation for a webinar launch of their report, "Challenging Gendered Digital Harm"
📆Thursday, April 24, 2025
🕐 7:00 to 8:00 pm Eastern Time (ET)
Register here:
The Dalhousie Law Graduate Society is hosting their 5th Annual Graduate Research Transition Conference
“The Law and the Future: Sustainability, Accessibility and Emerging Technologies”
📆 May 7, 2025
📍 Weldon Law Building (virtual and in-person)
Register (free) here: forms.office.com/r/GAYUXTR83f
Curious about what the Law and Technology Institute has been up to?
See our newly revamped publications page
A big thank you to @hjrosborough.bsky.social for putting this together for us!
I wrote about this in like 2019, spoke to a college student whose mom would threaten to STOP PAYING THEIR TUITION when they turned off location tracking for any length of time
When I asked the app's founder about life360's ability to worsen abusive dynamics, they pivoted the conversation to safety.
#WeRobot2025 @katieszi.bsky.social makes exciting announcement that this summer will see inaugural hopefully-annual natl Canadian law & tech conference, happening at @schulichlaw.bsky.social, organized by @karanicolas.bsky.social @suziedunn.bsky.social & team of other tech law profs across country!
