Privacy Law /channels/taxonomy/term/20014/all en Experts: Apple users can say no to being tracked with new software update /channels/channels/news/experts-apple-users-can-say-no-being-tracked-new-software-update-330714 <p>Apple rolled out a software update for its mobile devices that gives users the option of stopping apps from tracking their location and sharing other identifying information with third parties. Services such as Facebook and others currently have the ability to track users on mobile devices in order to learn more about them to target advertisements and other location-based services to them. In some instances, the tracking is in place even if the user is not actively using the app in question.</p> Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:10:15 +0000 webfull 170250 at /channels Privacy in Public: A conversation about surveillance & facial recognition technology in public spaces /channels/channels/event/privacy-public-conversation-about-surveillance-facial-recognition-technology-public-spaces-327978 <p>Join Tech Law ƻԺ for a timely conversation on facial recognition and its significance for privacy in public spaces with<strong> Tamir Israel</strong> and <strong>Lex Gill</strong>, BCL/LLB'17, experts in the area of surveillance, human rights,</p> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:59:50 +0000 webfull 167206 at /channels RGHL Panel - “New or Normal: Privacy, Public Health & the Pandemic” /channels/channels/event/rghl-panel-new-or-normal-privacy-public-health-pandemic-327107 <h3>Does the COVID-19 pandemic change what we can and should expect in terms of our privacy?</h3> Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:04:41 +0000 webfull 166244 at /channels Human Rights and Contact Tracing Apps /channels/channels/event/human-rights-and-contact-tracing-apps-326306 <p>Contact tracing apps are designed to track the spread of COVID-19, but have raised serious privacy concerns and questions surrounding intrusive data collection.</p> Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:27:38 +0000 webfull 165359 at /channels Book Launch - The Right to Be Forgotten: A Canadian and Comparative Perspective /channels/channels/event/book-launch-right-be-forgotten-canadian-and-comparative-perspective-325795 <p>The American Society of Comparative Law - Younger Comparativists Committee invites you to the launch of Ignacio N.</p> Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:02:42 +0000 webfull 164758 at /channels CLAUDETTE: Empowering Consumers through Artificial Intelligence /channels/channels/event/claudette-empowering-consumers-through-artificial-intelligence-309944 <p>Join us for an AI and the Law talk with <b>Przemysław Pałka</b>, who will discuss the possibility of automating the legal assessment of online consumer contracts.</p> Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:54:17 +0000 webfull 157530 at /channels POSTONED The Paradox of Automation as Anti-Bias Intervention /channels/channels/event/postoned-paradox-automation-anti-bias-intervention-301727 <h3>This Annie Macdonald Langstaff workshop with <strong>Ifeoma Ajunwa</strong>, Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School, has been postponed.</h3> Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:13:58 +0000 webfull 154446 at /channels Data Governance for Sharing Smart City Data: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto /channels/channels/event/data-governance-sharing-smart-city-data-lessons-sidewalk-toronto-300756 <p>Data governance for data sharing – particularly where some or all of the data are sourced from human activity – raises issues of ownership, privacy, ethics and even sovereignty.</p> Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:33:24 +0000 webfull 153270 at /channels Data trusts: data governance that empowers the public to share in AI's benefits /channels/channels/event/data-trusts-data-governance-empowers-public-share-ais-benefits-295688 <p>Join us for an AI and the Law conference with <strong>Philip Dawson</strong>, Public Policy Lead, Element AI.</p> Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:43:23 +0000 webfull 147642 at /channels The Privacy Revolution /channels/channels/event/privacy-revolution-294870 <p>The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (<a href="https://www.cippmcgill.ca" target="_blank">CIPP</a>) is organizing an afternoon conference with privacy leaders addressing the latest developments of the Privacy field, such as the Right to be </p> Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:43:18 +0000 webfull 146639 at /channels