Privacy Law

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Lisa Austin argues that "data is not a natural resource but a new informational dimension to individual and community life" ("We must not treat data like a natural resource," July 9, 2018).

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We must not treat data like a natural resource

By Lisa Austin

July 9, 2018

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Lisa Austin assesses some key issues that Canadians concerned about the state of our own privacy laws should focus on in the wake of the U.S. Senate hearings on Facebook ("Protecting the public interest when ‘Your user agreement sucks’," April 17, 2018).

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By Lucianna Ciccocioppo / Photo by Jeff Kirk

The Faculty of Law’s Professor Lisa Austin, LLM 1998, is among the first group of scholars to be recognized with the newly announced and prominent University of Toronto President’s Impact Award. She's one of seven recipients for 2018.

Full house: "Darker Side of Digital" discussed the intersection of technology, privacy and human rights.

By Chelsey Legge, 2L

In a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen, Prof. Simon Stern looks at the issues in an upcoming Supreme Court of Canada case that will decide to what extent police can search text messages on people's mobile phones ("How easy is it for police to search your texts? The Supreme Court is set to decide," March 21, 2017).

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Individual lives are increasingly “datafied” and this information is collected, warehoused, analyzed and distributed across the globe on a massive scale. As individuals become more and more “transparent,” the technology that is driving this massive transformation becomes more and more opaque. This “transparency gap” is a problem for all stakeholders in the information age.

CILP symposium looked at legal solutions in an increasingly social world

By Mark Witten