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  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  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  There are models in the EU in particular, in the EU directives around data privacy, that focus more on bringing human decision-making into the loop. Where a decision is made that affects someone's life chances, for example, there needs to be some sort of human element in the dete

Status of Women committee  It could be that some do that. In other words, they close our circle instead of opening our circle. In some cases, people who look at this may say, well, that's an advantage, because if I don't want to see hate speech, I don't have to see hate speech. But let's take Twitter's m

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for inviting me back. I understand that today one of the things we've been asked to focus on is this notion of algorithmic curation. I'm making these remarks as the co-leader of the eQuality Project, which is a project that in fact is focused on the big data

Status of Women committee  Years ago, Catharine MacKinnon was involved in the porn wars, but no one at the time could have predicted the extent of the infiltration of sexualized violence across culture. Rape culture, I think, is what Professor Shariff is talking about—the equation of sex and violence. It's

Status of Women committee  Even in looking at the criminal case law, research is showing that technologically facilitated violence is creeping in. Technologically facilitated violence by itself is prosecuted relatively infrequently. It's often encased in a situation of relationship abuse or domestic abuse,

Status of Women committee  We always have to be cautious of restorative justice approaches in the context of abuses of power, where there is a power imbalance and violence is perpetrated against women because they're women. I understand why that concern was raised. It's not to say that it doesn't work; i

Status of Women committee  Let's start today.