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Monday, 09 July 2018 06:59
PIPEDA reform should include a comprehensive rewriteWritten by Teresa Scassa
The pressure is on for Canada to amend its Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The legislation, by any measure, is sorely out of date and not up to the task of protecting privacy in the big data era. We know this well enough – the House of Commons ETHI Committee recently issued a report calling for reform, and the government, in its response has acknowledge the need for changes to the law. The…
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Thursday, 14 June 2018 07:11
Supreme Court of Canada Decision Has Relevance for Addressing Bias in Algorithmic Decision-MakingWritten by Teresa Scassa
On June 13, 2018 the Supreme Court of Canada handed down a decision that may have implications for how issues of bias in algorithmic decision-making in Canada will be dealt with. Ewert v. Canada is the result of an eighteen-year struggle by Mr. Ewert, a federal inmate and Métis man, to challenge the use of certain actuarial risk-assessment tools to make decisions about his carceral needs and about his risk of recidivism. His concerns, raised…
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Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, 2nd EditionPublished in 2012 by CCH Canadian Ltd.
Intellectual Property for the 21st CenturyIntellectual Property Law for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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