Status of Women committee  The more sophisticated algorithms get, the better they are supposed to be at predicting what we would actually want to see. If I look at my search history on Amazon, Amazon did this fairly early. I bought a lot of books about feminism, so Amazon constantly gave me ad suggestions

Status of Women committee  First of all, let me give a disclaimer. I'm a lawyer, not a computer scientist, so to say specifically what was happening, I'm not sure. It could be many things. It could be an example of the sort of thing that Matthew was talking about, that there's an algorithm that's calculati

Status of Women committee  What you can see is that the algorithms are getting more sophisticated, and the more data you give them, the more predictive they become in terms of thinking about emulating your behaviour to the extent that your behaviour is premised on what you did in the past.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  On the repeal of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act under the prior government, I testified before the Senate about that. It came, I would say, at the most ironic time in history. It was a time when everyone was talking about the impact of online hate and harassment. Can

Status of Women committee  That's an interesting question. It's a point for obfuscation, I think, that corporations like to use: multiple jurisdictions, hard to keep track.... Yes, agreed, but when you are doing business in a particular jurisdiction, you have to expect to abide by the laws in that jurisdic

Status of Women committee  It's hard to say. It would depend on how you drafted the legislation.

Status of Women committee  We can look at “the right to be forgotten” in the EU. An example is the Google case in Spain, where Google was upset that EU law was applying to their situation, because they didn't think their presence in Spain was sufficient to justify the application of that particular directi

Status of Women committee  On the other question about a different kind of algorithmic sort, I think my answer would be that I'm not sure. It would depend on what was happening. That isn't to say that it's not complicated. It's just to say that sometimes it's the first thing that gets put on the table, and

Status of Women committee  Do you want to go first, Matthew?

Status of Women committee  The other thing at the federal level, of course, is that we have the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. We could think more about giving them more power, about giving them real enforcement authority and the authority to deal with algorithmic curation kinds of issues as

Status of Women committee  The sorts of things we're doing as damage control, which Matthew gave us a really good rundown on, have other implications, but aside from that, I think my answer to everything, really, as you may remember—I said this the last time too—is to end patriarchy, and then we won't have

Status of Women committee  Is violent pornography an issue?

Status of Women committee  Certainly.

Status of Women committee  The heart of the issue is misogyny. The heart of the issue is representation of rape or sexual assault as sex. We shouldn't be confused about that. That should not be confused. That's the heart of it. It's overlain by all kinds of other intersections, such as racism, classism, an