Privacy
Technical safeguards and workplace culture build on a legal compliance foundation to ensure employees feel respected and the autonomy to act responsibly and ethically while fulfilling their duties. It's about doing right by the people who keep the organisation running.
AI
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Webistemology
Last week, I had the privilege of attending an event co-hosted by the IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative and the Centre for Information Policy Leadership. The roundtable addressed Privacy Engineering: Aligning Technology, Principles, and Governance. This was an invitation-only event in San Francisco attended by civil society groups, industry practitioners, and
Webistemology
This is an updated version of a post initially written for Data Privacy Day in 2012, but it still seems relevant today in the context of Prime Minister Carney’s Bill C-2.
AI
If AI slop is the GIGO result from a model consuming the raw, unfiltered mess that is the Internet, then AI poisoning is what happens when someone or something slips poison into the mix. It intentionally corrupts an AI model's training data to control, disrupt, or degrade its performance.
AI
In a wonderful bit of serendipity, Sturgeon's Law has become a way to counter AI hype and provide a cautionary note about AI tools and a fundamental problem with them.
Webistemology
Today, our monuments are less tangible than stone, but no less massive. They are the sprawling, humming, and voraciously hungry data centres that power artificial intelligence.
Privacy
I'm curious whether new ministers' mandates will genuinely champion Canadians' digital autonomy and privacy.
Privacy
The data is in. Privacy is not correlated to Freedom. It is time to rethink how we write privacy laws.
Ontario
While Bill 194 introduces some welcome upgrades to Ontario's cybersecurity and privacy legislation, it falls short of delivering in several key areas, particularly protecting employees' privacy.
Covid-19
Version 1 of the Ontario COVID Vaccine Certificate is a cumbersome experience that needs some work
Privacy
Technology enabled contact tracing seems like a rational response to the current pandemic. However, both the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and the unintended consequences of implementing some of the suggested technologies suggest that a coordinated social response is a better road forward.