We can look at 2017 as the high-water mark for Silicon Valley — when its wave of disruption finally started to recede. The pushback was a reaction to a string of bad headlines: Kremlin-backed political …
Read MoreThe minister for democratic institutions recently announced coordinated efforts to safeguard elections from online threats. The announcement highlighted concerns that social media platforms could be used to spread disinformation and exploit social tensions, and called …
Read MoreThe Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (Ethics committee) released its interim report on the “breach of personal information involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.” The report makes bold and welcome recommendations …
Read MoreOne of the most active Twitter accounts during the 2012 Quebec election tweeted 11,000 times to support the nascent Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ). But the account named CAQBot wasn’t human. It was a bot, an …
Read MoreIn a short time, the Canadian government has taken important steps toward better AI governance. This progress was evident at the Student Symposium on AI and Human Rights, held in April by Global Affairs Canada …
Read MoreWhat happens when government tries to govern big tech? For Canada, the answer is that big tech packs up and leaves. Google recently announced it was going to ban political ads ahead of the next …
Read MoreCanadians value their access to an open Internet – that view is on full display at a proceeding currently underway at the federal telecom and broadcasting regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). At …
Read MoreOnline bots scan social media sites and then send out automatic messages to users. Political parties use them to get their messages out. So they have the power to shape public opinion, and they can …
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