The Future of Transatlantic Data Flows
The transfer of personal data is inherent in most online activities. As many of the top online companies are located in the United States, every day there is a huge flow of data from America to Europe. As a result, the data becomes subject to the EU’s more stringent privacy laws such as GDPR . […]
Huawei Is Winning the Argument in Europe, as the U.S. Fumbles to Develop Alternatives
Much like the UK, Germany appears to not be fully capitulating to American calls to have an outright ban on Huawei’s involvement in national 5G networks. Many other European nations are also expressing skepticism towards an outright ban. While they have indicated that they are willing to curtail the involvement of companies that are deemed […]
“Why Does the Radio Keep Playing the Same Songs?”
This was the question posed by my uncle over the Christmas break. “You know when I was your age, we didn’t have this zip-zap-app stuff, we heard it all on the radio! Disk jockeys must really be lazy these days.” * I didn’t have an answer for him at the time, but after some digging […]
News of the Week; February 12, 2020
COMMUNICATIONS The Broadcast Panel Report and Discoverability of Canadian Content: Searching for Evidence of a Problem (Michael Geist) The BTLR and USMCA, Part One: Why the Broadcast Panel Recommendations Conflict With Canada’s Emerging Trade Obligations (Michael Geist) Higher Costs and Less Choice: Why Consumers Will Pay the Price for the Broadcast Panel’s Plans to Increase […]
Facebook’s launch of Facebook Dating in EU delayed due to data protection concerns
Facebook’s dating service, Facebook Dating, has decided to delay launching in the EU after the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the national authority for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), expressed concerns with the recent notification of the launch and the failure to provide a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA). Facebook Ireland only notified the […]
Response to Facial Recongnition Technology and Canadian Law Enforcement
This was a very interesting post. I was also reading about the controversies surrounding facial recognition software. Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Is Identifying Child Victims of Abuse by Kashmir Hill and Gabriel J.X. Dance. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/clearview-facial-recognition-child-sexual-abuse.html?searchResultPosition=4. This article discusses how it is being used in law enforcement (including in Canada) to identify the victims of child […]
Facial Recognition Technology and Canadian Law Enforcement
A previous post dealt with facial recognition technology and its privacy implications. What some members of the class may be unaware of is that certain law enforcement agencies in Canada have begun to use facial recognition technology, and others are planning to implement it. Notably, the Calgary police department have been using facial recognition technology […]
Group Presentation: February 11th, 2020
Our group will be presenting on Wearable tech and data privacy. This will takes us through a few topics including ongoing trends and developments in the field as well as governing privacy legislation in a few prominent jurisdictions. In order to get a little bit of background on the general topic, feel free to take […]
Michael Geist interviews Janet Yale (Chair of the Broadcasting/Telecom Review Panel)
https://lawbytes.castos.com/podcasts/1553/episodes/episode-38-debating-the-broadcast-panel-report-a-conversation-with-btlr-panel-chair-janet-yale I found this to be a frustrating episode. – I don’t understand the choice to focus on Canadians having choice at the level of an individual online media provider. Why does choice of content and discoverability of Canadian content need to be satisfied within Facebook or within Netflix instead of on the internet generally? […]
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