News

2020

• Abdelhamid Benhmade wins Global Affairs Canada’s International Policy Ideas Competition

  Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2020

  

   

   

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Abdelhamid Benhmade, PhD candidate and Open AIR researcher, is one of the winners of Global Affairs Canada’s 2020 International Policy Ideas Competition for his project “Africa, a source of growth for Canadian businesses".

• Marina Pavlović appointed on Council of Canadian Academies’ Expert Panel on high-throughout networks for rural and remote communities

  Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Marina Pavlović has been appointed by the Council of Canadian Academies to an Expert Panel on High-Throughput Networks for Rural and Remote Communities that will examine the legal, ethical, social, and policy issues associated with deploying and adopting reliable high-speed Internet in rural and remote communities.

• Call for applications for the 2021 Technoships

  Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is happy to launch the call for applications for the 2021 Technoships, a unique research training program in technology law, ethics and policy for first-year students.

• 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.

• uOttawa researchers launch COVID-19 Global Pandemic App Watch

  Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2020

  

  The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is proud to announce the launch of the Global Pandemic App Watch, a site tracking uptake of COVID-19 contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps around the world.

• 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.

• Wolfgang Alschner launches CFI-funded Legal Technology Lab

  Posted on Monday, October 5, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology, and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Wolfgang Alschner, received a strategic funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to launch a new Legal Technology Lab, with a mission to harness technology in an effort to reduce law's complexity

• Céline Castets-Renard appeared before the National Assembly of Québec to discuss privacy

  Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2020

  

  Twice over the past months, Dr. Céline Castets-Renard, a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology, and Society, appeared before the National Assembly of Québec to share her expertise on privacy.

• Elizabeth Dubois Launches a Podcast on Political Communication

  Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that CLTS Faculty member Dr. Elizabeth Dubois has launched Wonks and War Rooms, a new podcast where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy.

• uOttawa Launches New Online Microprogram in Law and Technology

  Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2020

  

  The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce the creation of a new online graduate microprogram in law and technology, developed by the Faculty of Law in collaboration with three CLTS Faculty members.