Blog Author: Colin Bennett

Unpacking the “Micro” in Political Micro-Targeting

More Traditional Methods of Surveillance Might Be More Valuable for Contact-tracing Than Smartphone Apps and Perhaps More Intrusive

Stronger Privacy Enforcement Powers for Canada’s Privacy Commissioner and a Possible Rule for Canada’s Competition Bureau?

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, AIQ and the Data-Driven Election: Statement to House of Commons Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (April 26, 2018)

How to Avoid Privacy Complaints Escalating to the Privacy Commissioner: Be Transparent, Receptive, Diligent, Polite and Truthful

So maybe ‘Big Data’ doesn’t work in elections? Maybe it’s time to stop using it?

Is Canada Still ‘Adequate’ Under the New European General Data Protection Regulation?

So Who is Actually “Shielded” by the Privacy Shield?

Bill C-51 and No Fly-lists: Still Too Dangerous to Fly Yet Too Innocent to Arrest

Hospitals Without Patients, and Data Protection Without Data Subjects: My Address to CPDP2015