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Jul
06
Public Safety and Data Privacy
This is an updated version of a post initially written for Data Privacy Day in 2012, but it still seems relevant today in the context of Prime Minister Carney’s Bill C-2.
2 min read
Jun
12
From Slop to Sabotage
If AI slop is the GIGO result from a model consuming the raw, unfiltered mess that is the Internet, then AI poisoning is what happens when someone or something slips poison into the mix. It intentionally corrupts an AI model's training data to control, disrupt, or degrade its performance.
4 min read
Jun
11
AI Slop and Sturgeon's Law
In a wonderful bit of serendipity, Sturgeon's Law has become a way to counter AI hype and provide a cautionary note about AI tools and a fundamental problem with them.
5 min read
Jun
10
Our Digital Moai
Today, our monuments are less tangible than stone, but no less massive. They are the sprawling, humming, and voraciously hungry data centres that power artificial intelligence.
3 min read
Jun
10
The Carney Liberals and Lawful Access
The Carney Liberals have introduced a bill that would permanently damage our digital privacy. Like a zombie, the idea of "lawful access" legislation keeps rising from the dead, no matter how many times Canadians have killed it.
3 min read
Jun
09
Unleashing Corporate Greed, Not Ontario's Potential
Doug Ford's Bill 5, deceptively titled the "Protecting Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act, 2025" is a direct assault on our environment, on Indigenous rights, on workers' protections, and on local democracy.
3 min read
May
23
Whose mandate?
Prime Minister Mark Carney's first mandate letter to his cabinet reads like a document for boardrooms rather than food banks.
5 min read
May
21
Privacy Prospectus 2025
I'm curious whether new ministers' mandates will genuinely champion Canadians' digital autonomy and privacy.
3 min read
Apr
02
Privacy ≠ Freedom (but it should)
The data is in. Privacy is not correlated to Freedom. It is time to rethink how we write privacy laws.
3 min read
Feb
05
Growing Democracy
There is a place, little noticed and even less understood by most Canadians, where democracy is growing stronger despite a history of violence and exploitation.
8 min read