Information & Ethics committee  I wouldn't limit it to young people. This isn't about infantilizing adults or saying that people are stupid. This is a group of well-educated people in this room, and I'm sure most of us have no idea what we've agreed to in the privacy policies we've agreed to and would not have

Information & Ethics committee  I'm a lawyer. Sure, legal actions are good. I am certainly never against opening up a panoply of remedies for citizens. However, the reality of civil actions is that most people can't afford them anyway, so who would use those mechanisms? Maybe we'll be able to use them for class

Information & Ethics committee  We threw around the term “right to be forgotten” pretty easily just a minute ago; I did it, too. Just to be clear, to say what we mean.... What do we mean by a right to be forgotten? Even in the EU currently, without thinking about what's going to happen in 2018, it's not really

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think meaningful consent is real. I don't think you can have informed consent in the environment we're living in, and we won't have it in the future, because meaningful consent is informed consent, and you can't be informed of things you can't understand. The best-intenti

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I agree. I think the right to be forgotten is going to become more and more relevant the more complex data collection and profiling systems become.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Together with Professor Valerie Steeves, I co-lead a seven-year project funded by SSHRC called the eQuality project. It's focused on understanding how big data practices, especially targeted advertising, affect young people's online interactions and can set them up fo

Status of Women committee  I'll jump in there. The other thing we have to be conscious of is that I don't think we actually want to be keeping kids from sexually explicit material. I think there's a lot of information that's necessary for kids to know about sexual activity and sexual health, which I distin

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's the thing: it's a kind of a tragedy of the commons problem, where, when you and I make individual decisions in individual situations, and we think we're fine because we've agreed to what we've done, the implications of what we've done, our choices, can be part of what

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

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  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.