As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.
- Professor, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University
The Canadian government’s proposed Strong Borders Act appears to be in response to calls for Canada to beef up its borders with the United States.
The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, held in Paris on Feb. 11, reflected a political shift towards addressing social and environmental challenges posed by AI.
A group of Canadian news media companies are suing OpenAI for using their content, claiming that it is not covered under copyright exemptions.
The Canadian government has ordered the closure of TikTok’s offices in Canada. The reasons are connected to national security concerns, but they appear tenuous.
Apple Intelligence could do for generative AI what the Mac or graphic user interface did for the personal computer: help tame it, make it seem ordinary and acceptable.
Four Ontario school boards have filed a lawsuit against social media platforms to force them to change practices that harm schoolchildren.
Environ le quart des Canadiens utilisent TikTok. Réglementer l’application au Canada est-il la meilleure approche pour éviter toute influence politique extérieure ?
About 26 per cent of Canadians use TikTok. Regulating the app in Canada might be a better approach to avoiding external political influence.
Does privacy law in Canada do enough to protect us from entities like tech platforms, retailers, the police, hackers and criminals?
Powers in Bill C-10 will force YouTube and TikTok to make CanCon more discoverable, skewing our searches and streams — but it’s unconstitutional.
To use body cameras effectively, police need to be guided by law, not policy.
A public inquiry into money laundering underway in British Columbia holds out hope for reform, but the problems run deep.
In a recent Canadian court case, defence and prosecution argued over whether a suspect was required to provide his password to allow for a search warrant to be executed on his phone.
New research into the economics of attention online casts doubt on the net’s role in fostering public debate, and raises concerns about the future of democracy.
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