Thought Leadership

2020

• When Do Algorithmic Tortfeasors that Caused Damage Warrant Unique Legal Treatment?

  

  Karni Chagal-Feferkorn | Woodraw Barfield, Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

• Ottawa should tax tech giants, not treat them like an ATM

  

  Michael Geist | The Globe and Mail | October 16, 2020

• CIPPIC releases report on facial recognition and border crossings

  Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2020

  

  The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society just released Facial Recognition at a Crossroads: Transformation at our Borders & Beyond, a new report on the use of facial recognition technologies at borders.

• Sense and Similarity: Automating Legal Text Comparison

  

  Wolfgang Alschner | R. Whalen, Computational Legal Studies: The Promise and Challenge of Data-Driven Research (E. Elgar, 2020)

• Céline Castets-Renard releases report on facial recognition and policing

  Posted on Monday, October 5, 2020

  

  Dr. Céline Castets-Renard, a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology, and Society, just released Cadre juridique applicable à l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale par les forces de police dans l’espace public au Québec et au Canada: Éléments de comparaison avec les États-Unis et l’Europe, a new report offering a comparative study on facial recognition and policing.

• A look back at what happened in September 2020

  

  The CTLS Monthly Newsletter

• It’s time to reboot Canada’s failed digital agenda

  

  Michael Geist | The Globe and Mail | September 17, 2020

• A look back at what happened in August 2020

  

  The CLTS Monthly Newsletter

• AI technologies — like police facial recognition — discriminate against people of colour

  

  Jane Bailey, Valerie Steeves and Jacquelyn Burkell | The Conversation | August 24, 2020

• Judging by Numbers: How Will Judicial Analytics Impact the Justice System and Its Stakeholders?

  

  Jena McGill & Amy Salyzyn | (2021) 44:1 Dalhousie L.J. ___