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Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, joins McGill’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
Haugen will support the Centre’s research and public engagement on online safety policy, youth digital rights, and data transparency.
Photo by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Taylor Owen testifies before House of Commons Committee: C-18
Director Taylor Owen testifies before Canada’s House of Commons on the Online News Act
The Online News Act keeps journalism alive while it adapts to a new world
Over the last decade, as the business of journalism has gone through substantial decline, governments around the world have struggled to develop policies to support them. The most polarizing idea to date has been the idea of forcing platforms and publishers into forced arbitration (Taylor Owen).
Photo by Timothy Hales Bennett via Unsplash.
AI Oversight, Accountability and Protecting Human Rights: Comments on Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act
This report is a collaboration of interdisciplinary researchers from the Cybersecure Policy Exchange at Toronto Metropolitan University, McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.
“Whose speech will Elon Musk’s Twitter be protecting, exactly?” (Globe and Mail)
Taylor Owen & Supriya Dwivedi
The State of Competition Policy in Canada: Towards an Agenda for Reform in a Digital Era
Vass Bednar & Robin Shaban
Platform Responsibility and Regulation in Canada: Considerations on Transparency, Legislative Clarity, and Design
Sonja Solomun, Maryna Polataiko, & Helen A. Hayes
The Digital Domain and the New Social Contract Research Program
IE Center for the Governance of Change
