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This event is hosted by Osgoode Hall Law School at York University Citizen Lab senior research associate Kate Robertson will speak at “Justice Rewired: AI at the Frontlines of Crime and Criminal Justice” at Osgoode Hall Law School on March 10. This one-day course on AI and criminal case processes will bring together a multi-disciplined […]
This event is hosted by The Everywhere Border, iLIT, Collaborative Research Center for Resilience (CRCR), and Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) Tune in on February 19th to listen to senior research associate Kate Robertson speak on the Everywhere Border’s “Externalization of Borders, Digital Infrastructures and Authoritarianism” webinar. The discussion will consider recent […]
Canada’s Bill C-8 (formerly Bill C-26) is proposed cybersecurity legislation that would introduce broad information collection and sharing powers, including the warrantless collection of information from telecommunication providers, and could also undermine encryption and communications security. In a brief submitted by the Citizen Lab to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU) of Bill […]
In a new piece for Policy Options, senior research associate Kate Robertson and legal extern Song-Ly Tran discuss how outdated protections in Canada’s decades old wiretap laws fail to protect people in Canada from abuse of spyware technologies.
Kate Robertson, Senior Researcher at the Citizen Lab provided a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on National Security, Defence, and Veterans Affairs, that contributes to the ongoing consideration of Bill C-26, which seeks to give the federal government the power to impose cybersecurity regulations on telecom and critical infrastructure providers in Canada.
