It's #DataPrivacyWeek! Do you click "agree" without reading app privacy policies? Check out this video about clickwrap #uidesign and #privacy problems. Funders: OPC SSHRC York U Research & Innovation #uxdesign #uiuxdesign #designtwitter #contracts youtube.com/watch?v=gtQ2tN…

I am SO excited that our Economic and Social Research Council ESRC Digital Good Network is under way! We invite applications to our Digital Good Research Fund & our summer school at launch events in early March - join us!

"To say I'm complying isn't the same as saying I'm acting ethically... if the rules are not good then following them really doesn't help public trust." — かな (YorkU School of Public Policy and Administration) at 8/11pm with Duff Conacher (Democracy Watch) & Jeyan Jeganathan | Producer Harrison Lowman #onpoli #cdnpoli

🗓️ Friday, March 17, 12:00 PM: Join SRI Faculty Affiliate Shion for a talk at University of Toronto Faculty of Information with Casey Fiesler (CU Boulder), "Data is People: Unintended Consequences in AI and Data Science." Learn more and register: bit.ly/3EVGFKy

Consumer Privacy Protection Act could lead to fines for deceptive designs in apps and websites Post funders: OPC SSHRC York U Research & Innovation theconversation.com/consumer-priva…

"Canada’s proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act...could be trouble for social media platforms, online shopping companies...that use deceptive user interface designs in their apps & websites," says Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Prof Jonathan Obar #Opinion theconversation.com/consumer-priva… via @ConversationCda

"Canada’s proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act...could be trouble for social media platforms, online shopping companies...that use deceptive user interface designs in their apps & websites," says Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Prof Jonathan Obar #Opinion theconversation.com/consumer-priva… via @ConversationCda

The MIC Center is hosting the Union for Democratic Communications in Philly, Oct 12-15. UDC has supported activist scholarship for over 40 yrs & this promises to be an especially engaging & fun conference. Deadline is in a few weeks--pls share far & wide! democraticcomm.org

TOMORROW: York University's Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and YorkU Music department York U AMPD will present a free chamber music recital at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall featuring #Jewish composers spanning 115 years. bit.ly/42ulNnX

🗓️TODAY! Join us at 12 p.m. ET for a live taping of #WonksAndWarRooms. Host Elizabeth (not Liz) Dubois will be talking to Samantha Bradshaw | @[email protected], @whkchun, @SuzieMDunn, [email protected] McKelvey and Wendy Wong @profwhw.bsky.social on the uses of AI in Canadian politics. REGISTER: techlaw.uottawa.ca/aisociety/even…

OPC launches investigation into ChatGPT. priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/ne…

IP Osgoode's Founding Director, Prof. Pina D'Agostino, and Prof. Jonathan Obar of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies are seeking an RA to support privacy law research this summer. Learn more about this opportunity and how to apply here: law-york.12twenty.com/jobPostings#/j…

And make sure you check out (and share) this posting for a Research Assistant on an Artificial Intelligence and Society Project in summer 2023, working with Profs Jonathan Obar, Pirathayini Srikantha & かな. The deadline fast approaching!

So proud to announce the publication, today, of "Digital Capabilities: ICT Adoption in Marginalized Communities in Israel and the West Bank," a culmination of 8 years and 10 research projects with 8 talented PhD and MA candidates, who have all completed their studies:

Blending neuroscience and AI learning with social-justice work, York-led Connected Minds project, in collaboration with Queen's University, receives $105.7M in federal funding through #CFREF. #fondApogée Queen's University TIPS_SPIIE François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 bit.ly/449JN0x

Commissioner: Meaningful privacy obligations should apply to political parties. priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/ne… #C47 #LCJC

"You have to have a real multidisciplinary team that understands all the elements of these human-machine interactions," YorkUHealth neuroscientist Doug Crawford tells Andrew Palamarchuk about the new Connected Minds project. bit.ly/3OcybnZ via North York Mirror Toronto Star

SPESH 🤝 SHANGHAI my exhibition "Dumb Dreams and Messy Hands" debuted in Shanghai!! it broke all records at the K11 Art Museum, with over 1,500 VIP guests coming opening night and 10,000 more visitors during the first month 😭💕 Open to the public at K11 Shanghai until Oct 6th

I'm excited to share this press release from GW Law School announcing our new GW Center for Law & Technology. Through the Center, we're building out our privacy and tech curriculum and activities, including a new JD concentration in privacy/tech and more law.gwu.edu/gw-law-launche…