Suzie Dunn
@suziedunn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law || Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute
Huge gratitude to @suziedunn.bsky.social, Lucie Guilbault, & the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology for hosting this issue & all their work to see it into publication. Huge congrats to all the authors for their excellent papers! This is the 1st ever We Robot peer-review journal collection 🎉🤖
The People's Consultation on AI has released the submissions it received! Posted below and available in a shared dropbox. I took a peak as they rolled in, and it was really heartening reading how much it meant to people to have this chance to engage with the issues & provide meaningful input. #PCAI
Submissions
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Cynthia Khoo@cyn-k.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe People's Consultation on AI launched today! Whether you have in-depth expertise in AI issues, or don't consider yourself an "expert" but have firsthand experience with AI or its impacts and want to have your say, this is for you. Participate by March 15, 2026: www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
The U.K.'s communications watchdog Ofcom said it has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X over reports that its AI chatbot Grok is producing non-consensual sexualized deepfakes of women and children.
Elon Musk’s X probed by UK watchdog over Grok deepfakes
The investigation will look at whether platform has complied with its duties under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act.
politico.eu
Ooof. I can’t believe X chose this case, and this place, to fight a global takedown order. Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one. It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕@emma-briant.co.uk · 9mo agoBritish Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the internet. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
A national AI strategy is too important to "sprint" through in 30 days. I've signed an open letter alongside 160+ civil society & human rights groups, academics, experts, and advocates, protesting Minister Solomon's "consultation" and demanding a re-do: bccla.org/policy-submi...
OPEN LETTER to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation from civil society organizations and individuals opposing "National Sprint" consultation on AI strategy - BC Civil Liberti...
The Honourable Mélanie JolyMinister of IndustryHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A6 The Honourable Evan SolomonMinister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital InnovationHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontar...
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The Danish government has cross-party support to "clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice." 1/n www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says
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Join us next week for another thought-provoking panel in the CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series 2025: Freedom to Move! 🗓 June 25, 2025 🕐 1PM EST 📍 Hybrid (in-person and online) 🥪 Lunch provided 🎟 Free with registration → www.eventbrite.ca/e/cippic-sum...
CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series 2025: Freedom to Move
Join us June 25 for Freedom to Move, a panel focused on labour mobility and non-competes with experts from the Competition Bureau & more.
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✨ Publication alert ✨ We are excited to share our most recent publication in the Canadian Journal of Communication, which examines how Canadian secondary schools address TFSV within their educational curricula, policies, and legislation. Check it out! 👇 cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Systems-Level Problems Require Systems-Level Responses: An Intersectional Analysis of Canadian Secondary Schools’ Responses to Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence | Canadian Journal of Communicatio...
Background: Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is a significant problem for young people and is on the rise in Canada. Young people from marginalized groups are at greater risk of TFSV vict...
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Congratulations Alex and Krizelle! It was so great teaching such smart students in our Law & Technology course 🎉
Law & Technology Institute@cdntechlaw.bsky.social · last yr.LATI is proud to congratulate Alexandra Hollis and Krizelle Pascual, for winning the Gowling WLG Law & Technology Prize for the top grade in Law and Technology! We wish you both continued success as you embark on your legal career!
Great essay by @daniellecitron.bsky.social and @ariezra.bsky.social -- "Digital Authoritarianism" - discussing a tactic of attacking victims then falsely labeling victims as abusers to invite additional attacks lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...
Digital Authoritarianism | The University of Chicago Law Review
Antidemocratic forces rely on intimidation tactics to silence criticism and opposition. Today’s intimidation playbook follows a two-step pattern. We surface these tactics so their costs to public disc...
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Join: "Staying Aligned with Global Standards and Commitment on Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence (TFGBV)" 🗓 Date: 12 June 2025 🕙Time: 10:00 – 11:15 AM (EST) 📍Hosted by: UN Women & SVRI’s TFGBV Community of Practice 👉 Join on Zoom Here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8932347881...
Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...
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NEW REPORT (and a CW - CSAM): Today my colleague Shelby Grossman & I have a new research report about AI-generated child sex abuse material (AI CSAM). Read the report here: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/ai-csam... [1/6]
New Report on AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
Insights from Educators, Platforms, Law Enforcement, Legislators, and Victims
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A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors. 🔗 www.404media.co/no-one-knows...
No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM
A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors.
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Canadian civil society and policy experts call on the government to advance a coherent digital policy reform agenda:
Civil society calls for overhaul of Canada’s approach to digital policy
OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. We create community-driven campaigns to engage, educate, and empower people to safeguard the Internet.
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Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat
Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.
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A Canadian was behind the MrDeepFakes website The site featured non-consensual videos of celebrities, politicians, influencers, and popular instagramers People used this site to find people to hire to make sexual videos of their spouses and friends The site was shut down following this reporting
He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian | CBC News
A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-...
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Writing any interesting law or policy pieces on Democracy and the Information Society? Submit an abstract for the Canadian Technology Law Conference by May 5th Organized by @schulichlaw.bsky.social's Palmer Chair @karanicolas.bsky.social
Law & Technology Institute@cdntechlaw.bsky.social · last yr.➡️ Call for Abstracts! The Canadian Technology Law Conference will be hosted in Halifax at Dalhousie August 28-30th, 2025 Theme: Democracy and the Information Society 📅 Abstracts are due May 5th, 2025 ℹ️ Submit a 500 word abstract + your CV ✉️ Email submissions to: karanicolas@dal.ca
Join CanRepair for a lunch and learn on Your Right to Repair 📅 Tuesday, May 27, 2025 ⏰ 12:00-2:00pm (ADT) 📍Dalhousie Computer Science building Room 429 or on Zoom Organized by @arosborough.bsky.social & @cdntechlaw.bsky.social Register here!
Think Globally, Repair Locally
A Lunch & Learn on the Right to Repair at Dalhousie University!
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Join the Canadian Women's Foundation for a webinar launch of their report, "Challenging Gendered Digital Harm" 📆Thursday, April 24, 2025 🕐 7:00 to 8:00 pm Eastern Time (ET) Register here:
Challenging Gendered Digital Harm – A New Research Report
The Canadian Women’s Foundation has launched a new research report.
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The Dalhousie Law Graduate Society is hosting their 5th Annual Graduate Research Transition Conference “The Law and the Future: Sustainability, Accessibility and Emerging Technologies” 📆 May 7, 2025 📍 Weldon Law Building (virtual and in-person) Register (free) here: forms.office.com/r/GAYUXTR83f
Curious about what the Law and Technology Institute has been up to? See our newly revamped publications page A big thank you to @hjrosborough.bsky.social for putting this together for us!
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I wrote about this in like 2019, spoke to a college student whose mom would threaten to STOP PAYING THEIR TUITION when they turned off location tracking for any length of time When I asked the app's founder about life360's ability to worsen abusive dynamics, they pivoted the conversation to safety.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.Surveillance companies have done a real number on society in terms of convincing folks that tracking someone equates with their actual safety.
#WeRobot2025 @katieszi.bsky.social makes exciting announcement that this summer will see inaugural hopefully-annual natl Canadian law & tech conference, happening at @schulichlaw.bsky.social, organized by @karanicolas.bsky.social @suziedunn.bsky.social & team of other tech law profs across country!
Advocates' Society's apology comes after sharp criticism of cancellation of Tareq Hadhad's speaking invitation
Legal group apologizes after cancellation of noted Syrian Canadian's speech sparks 'profound' reaction | CBC News
A prominent Canadian legal association is apologizing after it cancelled a keynote speech by Syrian Canadian entrepreneur and peace advocate Tareq Hadhad, prompting sharp criticism from many of its me...
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