News

2016

• Reflections on Bruce Schneier's talk, titled “Security and Privacy in the World-Sized Web”,

  Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2016

  Author: Salahuddin Rafiquddin

  On Feburary 17, the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society welcomed Bruce Schneier to give the 9th annual Deirdre G. Martin Memorial Lecture on Privacy.

• Prof. Bailey Receives 2016 CBA Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law

  

  Professor Jane Bailey is the recipient of the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) 2016 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the law or legal scholarship in Canada.

• Redefining Intellectual Property Progress

  Prof. Janewa Osei-Tutu, J.D., LL.M

  International intellectual property (IP) debates have been framed as protection versus access, and profits over people. Without useful metrics, it is difficult to evaluate IP policy on a global scale.  In redefining intellectual property “progress,” Prof. Osei-Tutu suggests that human development – be it the UN Human Development Index or a similar methodology – be used as a metric for intellectual property policy in African countries.

  Centre for Law, Technology and Society and Open AIR Inaugural Speaker Event

• R. v. Jarvis: Cyberviolence against women – can criminal law respond?

  Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2016

  Author: Carissima Mathen and Jane Bailey

  R. v. Jarvis:  Cyberviolence against women – can criminal law respond?

  In 2011,Ryan Jarvis, aLondon Ontario high school teacher, used a pen camera to surreptitiously record brief videos of students engaged in various activities around the school without their permission. After reports from another teacher, the school principal personally witnessed Jarvisrecording two female students, and demanded that he turn over the camera.  Police analysis of the device revealed 17 active videos, 2 videos which had been deleted but subsequently recovered and other videos that were not recoverable.  Of the 30 individuals depicted in the videos, 27 were female students; five of the images focused specifically on their breasts.  Some days later, police searched Jarvis’ home and found that most of the files on a hard drive located in Jarvis’ room had been placed there after the pen camera was seized. This article discusses the scope of application under the Criminal Code.

• Why Care About What's Reasonable?

  Posted on Friday, January 29, 2016

  This paper argues that a focus on reasonableness draws attention away from the central problem with surveillance and lawful access, which is rooted in the conflict between the normative imperative to enforce the Criminal Code and the normative imperative to enforce the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure under section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.