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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · 3d

After 2 weeks, why the Kneecap ‘entry ban’ in Canada remains unclear - National | Globalnews.ca

Conservative and NDP MPs are now demanding answers from the government and say they are open to pursuing investigations into Gasparro, and whether his announcement was approved.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 10d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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J.P. @jpturcotte.bsky.social · 14d

🇨🇦 Le projet de loi C-8 de la Canada est de retour - jumeau du C-26. 👯‍♀️ Risques énormes pour le chiffrement + ordonnances secrètes. 🚨 Ne laissez pas #C8 passer à la hâte au Parlement. Dites à votre député·e de #CorrigerC8 ! 📣 openmedia.org/FixBillC8-bs... @openmedia.org

Corrigeons le projet de loi C-8 : Stoppons l’adoption précipitée d’une loi défectueuse sur la cybersécurité

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 10d

Exciting week for @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social & @uocommonlaw.bsky.social Law & Tech! For those still in town after the conference (where I'll be speaking on the civil society panel), I'm hosting this on Oct 4—a space for more critical discussion of AI. RSVP to join here: tinyurl.com/criticalAIsalon

Critical AI Breakfast Salon

Saturday, Oct 4, 2025
11:00am - 12:30pm
Métropolitain Brasserie
700 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON

What Is This?
Join us over an informal late morning breakfast for an opportunity to gather, connect, and exchange ideas with colleagues around critical AI studies and critical approaches to AI law and regulation, and what those mean within and for the Canadian technology law and policy landscape. If you are concerned about the state of AI discourse in Canada, namely, the lack of representation of impacted and marginalized communities, or the missing lens of AI as a tool of power, capital, and colonialism, or if you are simply tired of the AI hype cycle and AI boosterism, then this event is for you.

Who Is Invited?
This event is open to attendees of the CLTS @ 15 / 25 anniversary event of the Centre for Law, Technology, and Society at the University of Ottawa. Please note this salon is organized as an independent side event, hosted and sponsored by Tekhnos Law, and that neither the CLTS nor University of Ottawa are involved.

What Should I Know?
- Complimentary drinks and light breakfast bites will be provided!
- Modified Chatham House Rule will apply (no attribution unless person wishes).
- Limited spots are available to allow for more fulsome discussion and engagement by attendees. RSVP fast if you want to attend.
- An agenda and discussion questions will be sent to registrants 1-2 days in advance.

RSVP: tinyurl.com/criticalAIsalon
Questions/Contact: critical.ai@tekhnoslaw.ca

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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · 13d

If passed in its current form, the federal government's cybersecurity bill poses a threat to privacy and, paradoxically, to cybersecurity.

Government needs to fix dangerous flaws in federal cybersecurity proposal - CCLA

The government must fix fundamental constitutional flaws and a dangerous loophole in controversial cybersecurity legislation that has been reintroduced as Bill C-8. If this legislation fails to receiv...

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 14d

“Agencies need to be willing
to review automated
decisions if there is a serious
question about a decision”

Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 14d

Can't believe I missed an Ombudsman report with that title! Media release: www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/asset... (PDF)

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Keldon Bester @keldonb.bsky.social · Jun 17

In an unstable geopolitical environment, Canada's digital infrastructure is in the hands of just a few American companies. In a new CAMP discussion paper, we ask the question what a new path forward should look like.
antimonopoly.ca/discussion-p...

Discussion Paper | Confronting Canada's Gatekeeper Crisis - Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project

In a volatile geopolitical environment, Canada's dependence on a handful of American firms has become an acute risk to the future of our sovereignty.

antimonopoly.ca

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 21d

"There can be no doubt that states are bound under the Genocide Convention, which Israel is violating, to take action now."

HRW's Omar Shakir discusses this week's UN Commission of Inquiry report and the growing consensus among experts about Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza:

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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 21d

I was pleased to chat with @australia.theguardian.com team who actually looked at the Age Assurance trial data, finding racial & other biases of concern before the trial are still very evident in the trial's actual data (downplayed in the official summaries): www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Social media ban trial data reveals racial bias in age checking software: just how inaccurate is it?

Young people from Indigenous and Asian backgrounds are more likely to be miscategorised as over the age limit and older people as underaged, analysis finds

www.theguardian.com

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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · 21d

The Vancouver Police Board's handling of a complaint by BCCLA and Pivot regarding surveillance of Palestine solidarity protests failed on many substantive and procedural fronts.

Press Release: Vancouver Police Board Handling of Surveillance Complaint Raises Oversight Concerns - BC Civil Liberties Association

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) territories / Vancouver, BC – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and Pivot Legal Society are criticizing the Va...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22d

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 24d

Today I joined with 14 of my colleagues from 10 law schools across the country to send a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, and the other leaders in Parliament, expressing grave concerns about Bill C-2, and it's likely impact on privacy and cybersecurity:

Scholars' Letter re: Bill C-2

The Right Honourable. Mark Carney, P.C., O.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree P.C., M.P. Minister of Public Safety The Honourable Lena Metlege Diab P.C., M.P. Minis...

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · Jul 24

Critical read, hitting home out the gates in the executive summary's clarion call of an opening: "Those of us broadly engaged in challenging corporate consolidation, economic injustice, tech oligarchy, and rising authoritarianism need to contend with the AI industry or we will lose the end game."

AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 3

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.

Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.

Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 23d

good first graf in times report on trump admin assault on civil society

gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

President Trump has begun a major escalation in his long-running efforts to stifle political opposition in the United States, using the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to make the baseless argument that Democratic organizations and protesters are part of a violent conspiracy against conservative values and the American way of life.

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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · 23d

Alberta proposal for a new ID that combines driver's licensing, health and, somehow, a citizenship designation, sparks discrimination and privacy concerns

Alberta's Plan to Add Citizenship on Driver's Licenses Raises Privacy and Rights Concerns - CCLA

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 24d

I want every single person who’s ever argued passionately that we need a law criminalizing hate speech to sit with this interview, and think about what this administration could accomplish with it.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24d

Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · 24d

Robert Diab explains some of the constitutional provacy challenges raised by Bill C-2

CBC Ian Hanomansing speaks to Robert Diab, Law professor at Thompson Rivers University

Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.

www.cbc.ca

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29d

@MarioTrujillo.bsky.social presents the EFF Award for Protecting Americans’ Data to @Erie.bsky.social: “Erie Meyer has spent her career doing the real work of modernization and innovation inside government—by working to protect consumers and building a bench of deep technical and policy expertise.

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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · Sep 8

Great post on CSE's significant growth with particular attention to it's expanded crime fighting role:

Lux Ex Umbra: July 2025

luxexumbra.blogspot.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · Sep 7

Mine was the first testimony in the inquiry on tackling online harms facing young people in New Zealand - you can watch it now here if you scroll back to the beginning: www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl...

Me smiling from my living room on the New Zealand Parliament Education and Workforce Committee Livestream

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 7

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S.
On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · Sep 3

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h...

Here are my concluding paras:

last paragraph of testimony: "I urge this Committee to consider the real threat to Americans’ freedom of
expression, the one here at home. I have noted a handful of areas where this administration is
putting freedom of expression under direct attack. Where is the opposition, let alone outrage,
given the attack not only on speakers – journalists, public media, professors, students,
whistleblowers, civil servants – but on every American’s right of access to information about the
issues important to our democracy and to our public’s health? That, I would respectfully submit,
is the real threat to American speech and innovation, and I look forward to helping this
Committee, in any way you see fit, work to address it."

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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · Sep 3

perfect thanks bill..

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Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca · Sep 3

Bill, if the enhanced intel sharing you're referencing is this Directive, do you happen to know when specifically in 2024 it was issued? The website just says "last modified august 2025"

www.canada.ca/en/privy-cou...

Prime Ministerial Directive on Transnational Crime and Border Security - National Security and Intelligence - Privy Council Office - Canada.ca

www.canada.ca

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Bill Robinson @billrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canada has been sharing intel with the US on traffickers in the Caribbean since 1993. Enhanced intel-sharing has been underway since 2024. If the Avoiding Complicity in Mistreatment by Foreign Entities Act means anything, all sharing that might lead to extrajudicial killings must now cease.

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