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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · 14d

The Toronto Public Library (TPL) Digital Expo is coming up on October 4. The theme is incredibly timely: Bridging the #AIDivide. I'll be speaking on a panel about #EthicalAI. Hope to see you there!

You can check out my co-panelists, and register at the link below👇

Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Toronto Public Library (TPL) annual Digital Expo is coming up in October! 🍁 This year's theme: Bridging the AI Divide. I'll be on a panel discussing #ethicalAI, and how we can achieve that delicate balance between data privacy, security, and public trust.

Program and Registration here👇

Digital Expo 2025: Bridging the AI Divide - Access for All

Join us at the Digital Expo 2025, where tech enthusiasts will unite to explore the future of AI for all!

www.eventbrite.ca

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · 21d

I am really looking forward to speaking @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social Master of Public Policy Program on Sep. 22! I'll be talking about tech, rights, and the future of our digital lives.

Register here before Sep. 21st 👇
bit.ly/wethedata

#humanrights #wethedata #mcmasterevents

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Sep 4

We ought to think about #AI as a #humanrights issue.

💬 Sep. 16, I will be back in Toronto to give the Frank W. Woods lecture at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

Come join us! Registration and info here👇
munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/we-dat...

#bigdata #humanrights #wethedata

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Toronto Public Library (TPL) annual Digital Expo is coming up in October! 🍁 This year's theme: Bridging the AI Divide. I'll be on a panel discussing #ethicalAI, and how we can achieve that delicate balance between data privacy, security, and public trust.

Program and Registration here👇

Digital Expo 2025: Bridging the AI Divide - Access for All

Join us at the Digital Expo 2025, where tech enthusiasts will unite to explore the future of AI for all!

www.eventbrite.ca

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our latest #BattleRhythm with @profwhw.bsky.social and I talking about Canada/Carney's stance on Palestine and an interview with the Canadian general in charge of cyber command MG Dave Yarker cdsn.substack.com/p/episode-33...

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Jul 24

Jamie Duncan and I are in the @theglobeandmail.com this week! 🗞️

In this piece, we argue that Carney's ambitious plans to enhance Canada's sovereignty is a worthy goal, but requires the simultaneous consideration of several trade-offs. Have a read here 👇

#bigdata #datasovereignty #wethedata

Opinion: Digital sovereignty is a means to an uncertain goal

Our government’s focus on Canada’s digital destiny is admirable, but it will require Canadians to make difficult trade-offs around our reliance on data-driven technologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Jun 25

I contributed to Critical AI’s two-part special issue, and it is now live on the @dukepress.bsky.social website! In this article, I respond to Anthropic AI’s Samuel Bowman on the matter of today’s LLMs.

🔐 For 2 weeks, this issue is open to the public:

#bigdata #humanrights

Don't Forget That There Are People in the Data: LLMs in the Context of Human Rights | Critical AI | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Jun 2

Everyone will need to read this! 📖🤓

Great cover, even better innards. @greenprofgreen.bsky.social has no shortage of smart and zippy insights on climate change, the politics of carbon, and why we need to think about the financial assets that contribute to/mitigate global warming.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · May 30

We have a cover!!! Thank you @profwhw.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @writingisjoy.bsky.social and @jonasnahm.com for design advice :)

Coming to bookstores in October 2025!

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Jun 2

And it's so gorgeous. Can't wait to hold the book in my hand!

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · May 23

Hm, sounds uncomfortably familiar. Makes me think of @byrontau.bsky.social's Means of Control.

Means of Control by Byron Tau: 9780593443224 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

You are being surveilled right now. This “startling exposé” (The Economist) reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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TVO Today | The Agenda @tvotoday.bsky.social · May 21

"We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age," by @profwhw.bsky.social explores how Big Tech's data tracking undermines our humanity. The winner of the 2024 Balsillie Prize joins @spaikin.bsky.social to unpack the cost of digital surveillance.

Is Data Collection Undermining Human Rights? | The Agenda

YouTube video by TVO Today

www.youtube.com

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · May 23

Sharing the stage were my savvy co-panelists, Jason Camlot, Deanna Fong, and Deanna Reder. We need think about the importance of human-derived data very carefully. We are all stakeholders in this digital world, but are left out of the most pressing conversations around tech, ethics, and policy.

Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · May 23

I had a fantastic time presenting @ Re-Sounding Poetries event led by SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership [spokenweb.ca], in collab w/ the AMP Lab.

Thank you Karis Shearer & Klara du Plessis for chairing this discussion on critical data issues & for organizing the institute.

#wethedata #spokenweb #bigdata

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you to Steve Paikin and to the @tvotoday.bsky.social team for having me on, I had a fantastic time working with you!

TVO Today | The Agenda @tvotoday.bsky.social · May 20

Privacy isn't dead, but it has changed, says @profwhw.bsky.social‬, author of "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age." @spaikin.bsky.social speaks with the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy winner about the cost of surveillance to our humanity, tonight at 8/11pm

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CookeMcDermid @cookemcdermid.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations to Wendy Wong @profwhw.bsky.social whose upcoming work MIRRORED STATES has been sold to Nick Garrison and Marion Garner at Penguin Canada by Martha Webb! 🎉

On a light blue background, the header text, "Deal News," above a photo of Wendy Wong. Next to that, text reads: "Political Science Professor at UBC and Balsillie Prize-winning author of We, the Data Wendy H. Wong’s MIRRORED STATES: HOW WE SHOULD GOVERN BIG TECH, which addresses Western democracies’ struggles to reign in big tech and articulates a new strategy to meet these corporations’ unprecedented power by harnessing insights from International Relations, to Nick Garrison and Marion Garner at Penguin Canada by Martha Webb at CookeMcDermid. (Canada)"

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Canadian Defence and Security Network @cdsn.bsky.social · May 14

Catch Battle Rhythm co-host Dr. Wendy Wong @profwhw.bsky.social on The Agenda with Steve Paikin @tvotoday.bsky.social May 20th!

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · May 20

Tonight, I'm on @tvotoday.bsky.social The Agenda w/ the brilliant Steve Paikin(tune in 8pm & 11pm ET! 📺) We chatted re: data stickiness, human rights values in the digital age, & the importance of data literacy.

➡️ www.youtube.com/theagenda
➡️ www.tvo.org/theagenda

#wethedata #bigdata #dataliteracy

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · May 15

I am so excited about this new project! Now, back to writing ⌨️

CookeMcDermid @cookemcdermid.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations to Wendy Wong @profwhw.bsky.social whose upcoming work MIRRORED STATES has been sold to Nick Garrison and Marion Garner at Penguin Canada by Martha Webb! 🎉

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 22

🗞️ A second Signal mistake by Hegseth. I wrote in the Globe and Mail about this.

Hegseth pointing fingers at leakers w/o thinking about the truth of digital comms. Encryption & sec. protocols do not preclude data stickiness when sharing w/ the wrong person, especially w/ national security concerns.

Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'm in the @theglobeandmail.com 🗞️ Signal & 23andMe are both in the news this week for different reasons, but they raise the same concerns about non-gov entities which store & control our data. Policymakers take note: those who control the data are in charge.

#datagov #bigdata #23andme #signal

Opinion: The ills of Signal and 23andMe offer chilling lessons about our digital data

Try as we might to keep certain information private, we trade in a lot of that privacy when we use certain apps and websites

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 19

Great convo w/ Profs. Dan Priel & Richard Haigh from Osgoode Hall Law School to chat about my recent book, "We, the Data" and the need to re-imagine human rights in our data-intensive world.

Check out the episode on Spotify & iHeart Radio 📻

#datagov #wethedata #bigtech

11. We, the Data: Wendy Wong

Beyond Law: A Book Review Podcast · Episode

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 16

Tomorrow [Apr. 17] I will be at the Vancouver Human Rights and Accommodation Conference. My fellow panelists and I will be addressing the potential challenges and uses of AI at work.

Thx to Lancaster House Publishing for organizing this important event! Registration 👇

#aiatwork #datagov #wethedata

Vancouver Human Rights and Accommodation Conference 2025

Championing Workplace Equity, Inclusion, and Compliance What is the Vancouver Human Rights and Accommodation Conference 2025? The Vancouver Human Rights and Accommodation Conference 2025 is the pr...

lancasterhouse.com

Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 10

You can check out the Cluster here: digital-transparency.ok.ubc.ca

Digital Transparency Research Excellence Cluster

digital-transparency.ok.ubc.ca

Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 10

➡️ About The Digital Transparency Cluster: housed at UBC, an inter-disciplinary team of experts focused on the intersection of AI and people. We promote an informed understanding of data transparency, a strong literacy rate for responsible use of AI, and a regulatory regime appropriate to Canada.

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 10

🗣️ Our Digital Transparency Cluster (DTC), in collab w/ @universityofexeter.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on Preparing for an AI Future. True to DTC's mission, the experts hail from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, including computer science, humanities, & AI industry.

#datagov #aifutures

What do we need to know to be prepared for an AI Future?

Join a panel of inter-disciplinary experts as they discuss next trends in AI.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social · Apr 9

I'm in the March/April 2025 issue of the Director Journal by the Institute of Corporate Directors talking about how control of your data lies beyond your hands, even after death. You can check out the interview on pp. 48-49 📰

#datagov #bigdata #wethedata

The age of AI (March/April 2025)

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