Privacy and Security geek working on privacy and identity standards in the Kantara Initiative, IEEE and the IAPP.
Privacy
Technical safeguards and workplace culture build on a legal compliance foundation to ensure employees feel respected and the autonomy to act responsibly and ethically while fulfilling their duties. It's about doing right by the people who keep the organisation running.
AI
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Last week, I had the privilege of attending an event co-hosted by the IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative and the Centre for Information Policy Leadership. The roundtable addressed Privacy Engineering: Aligning Technology, Principles, and Governance. This was an invitation-only event in San Francisco attended by civil society groups, industry practitioners, and
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's first mandate letter to his cabinet reads like a document for boardrooms rather than food banks.
Privacy
I'm curious whether new ministers' mandates will genuinely champion Canadians' digital autonomy and privacy.
Privacy
The data is in. Privacy is not correlated to Freedom. It is time to rethink how we write privacy laws.