SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Info Matters (Podcast), Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (4 April 2024)
“At face value: Facial recognition technologies and privacy”

The Signal with Adam Walsh, CBC Newfoundland & Labrador (20 February 2024)
“N.L.’s privacy commissioner on AI and cybersecurity”

Taking Action (Podcast & Live on WPFW 89.3 FM) (Daniel del Pielago, 12 October 2023)
“Algorithmic Discrimination”

Reuters (Carey L. Biron, 16 November 2022)
“U.S. renters fall foul of algorithms in search for a home”

Washington Post (Danielle Abril, 31 October 2022)
“Musk tweeted an employee’s Slack message. How to protect your work chats”

Law360 (Amanda Jerome, 11 October 2022)
“Commons committee recommends ‘national pause’ on use of facial recognition technology”

FedScoop (Dave Nyczepir, 30 March 2022)
“NIST takes socio-technical approach to AI bias en route to management standard”

Morning Brew: HR Brew (Sam Blum, 19 January 2022)
“Employee surveillance is exploding with remote work—and could be the new norm”

DCist (Martin Austermuhle, 9 December 2021)
“D.C. Attorney General Introduces Bill To Ban ‘Algorithmic Discrimination’”

National Post (Anja Karadeglija, 25 August 2021)
“Pervasive role of algorithms in daily life raises concerns over need for government oversight”

Law Bytes (Podcast) (Michael Geist, 23 August 2021)
“‘They Just Seemed Not to Listen to Any of Us’ — Cynthia Khoo on the Canadian Government’s Online Harms Consultation”

Lawyer’s Daily (Donalee Moulton, 4 June 2021)
“LEAF calls on feds to hold companies accountable for online violence”

CBA National (Brigitte Pellerin, 13 May 2021)
“Deplatforming Misogyny”

CBA National (Dale Smith, 5 May 2021)
“Careful when regulating web giants as broadcasters”

Wire Report (Jenna Cocullo, 30 April 2021)
“Regulator needed to deal with tech-facilitated gender violence: report” (paywalled)

Canadian Lawyer (Zena Olijnyk, 28 April 2021)
“Federal legal reform needed to protect women and marginalized groups from abuse on digital platforms”

The Tyee (Bryan Carnee, 23 November 2020)
“RCMP Confirms It Bought a Tool that ‘Unlocks’ Hidden Facebook Friends”

The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Jeyan Jeganathan, 29 September 2020)
“Algorithmic Policing” (YouTube)

This Matters (Podcast, Toronto Star) (Raju Mudhar, 15 September 2020)
“The ABC’s (algorithms, big tech and cops) of predictive policing and surveillance”

National Post (Canadian Press) (Michelle McQuigge, 1 September 2020)
“Minority report? How police in Canada are already using technology to predict future crimes”

The Tyee (Bryan Carney, 1 September 2020)
“Report Calls for Moratorium on Police Use of AI to Predict Crimes”

The Logic (Murad Hemmadi, 1 September 2020)
“Research group calls for pause on emerging use of algorithmic policing in Canada”

Lawyer’s Daily (John Schofield, 1 September 2020)
“Report warns against increasing use of algorithmic policing technology”

OpenCanada.org (Justin Ling, 25 October 2019)
“Palantir’s big push into Canada”

Vancouver Sun (Michelle McQuigge, 2 October 2019)
“Toronto’s Pearson airport to use Vancouver company’s AI-powered technology to detect weapons”

ELLE Canada (Wing Sze Tang, 2 October 2019)
“Is Your Smartphone Spying on You?”

The Wire Report (Anja Karadeglija, 17 September 2019)
“Green Party platform: no anonymous social media, 5G rollout on hold”

ResponsibleData.io (The Engine Room) (Lorraine Chuen, 4 September 2019)
“Addressing stalkerware and gender-based abuse through data protection law”

Financial Times (Camilla Hodgson, 18 July 2019)
“Inside the secretive world of stalking apps”

The Lawyer’s Daily (Amanda Jerome, 13 June 2019)
“Knowledge gaps regarding spyware used for abuse need to be addressed, researcher says”

Toronto Star (Kate Allen, 12 June 2019)
“Legal gaps allow cellphone ‘stalkerware’ to thrive, researchers say”

Maclean’s (Shannon Proudfoot, 26 September 2018)
“What happens when artificial intelligence comes to Ottawa”

Canadian Lawyer (Aidan Macnab, 26 September 2018)
“Report says use of AI could be violating human rights”

Toronto Star (Nicholas Keung, 26 September 2018)
“Researchers raise alarm over use of artificial intelligence in immigration and refugee decision-making”

Beyond the Headlines (Podcast) (Jasper Parades, Mary Shin, Tom Piezkarski, Ian T. D. Thomson, 20 April 2018)
“Net Neutrality in the Canadian Context”

Business Insider (Rob Price, 7 April 2018)
“Facebook’s plan to let users ‘unsend’ messages could boost harassment and bullying, experts warn”

Yahoo Canada News (Elisabetta Bianchini, 27 November 2017)
“What Canadians need to know about net neutrality”

MobileSyrup (Rose Behar & Sameer Chhabra, 29 November 2017)
“Here’s everything you need to know about Canada’s unlocking fee ban”

Tiffany Sostar (Tiffany Sostar, 12 November 2017)
“Digital Self-Care: An Interview with Cynthia Khoo” 

Law Times (Michael McKiernan, 12 June 2017)
“Focus: U.S.and Canada diverge on net neutrality” 

TRT World (18 May 2017)
“The Newsmakers: Net Neutrality” 

IT World Canada (Eric Emin Wood, 24 April 2017)
“Could CRTC ruling against zero-rating be a boon for ISPs and businesses?” 

Via Satellite (Juliet Van Wagenen, 18 January 2017)
“Canada on Path to Provide High Speed Internet to All” 

Forbes (Katheryn Thayer, 17 October 2014)
“Secrecy-Shrouded TPP Leaks Alarm Internet Freedom Advocates” 

Redeye, Vancouver Co-op Radio, CFRO 100.5FM (26 July 2014)
“Free Access To Online Information Under Threat From TPP” 

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

The Atlantic Festival: Closed Expert Roundtable on Data Privacy (28 September 2023)

Tech Foundations for Congressional Staff (9 August 2023) (Panellist for session, “The Civil Rights and Liberties Side of AI and Data Privacy”, at conference hosted by Georgetown Law)

BCcampus Webinar Series: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence 
Part 1: What It Is and How to Help (23 February 2022)
Part 2: What Rights Do Students Have? (16 March 2022)

Surveillance in the Workplace: Training for Organizers & Advocates (Panel, hosted by Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers [GLOW] [formerly National Legal Advocacy Network (NLAN)], 30 June 2022)

Deplatforming Misogyny (Panel, co-hosted by The eQuality Project at University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall Law School, and University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, 28 April 2021)

The Technology and Structural Inequality Series: Policing and Technology (Panel, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, co-hosted with Computing for the People Project, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, 10 March 2021)

Police Surveillance Technology and the Transformation of Public Space (Panel, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, 17 November 2020)

Algorithmic Policing and Surveillance in Canada: The Defining Role of Reliability, Necessity and Proportionality in 21st-Century Oversight (Presentation and seminar delivered as part of the Queen’s University Surveillance Studies Centre Seminar Series, Kingston, ON / Virtually, 11 November 2020)

Digital Platforms and Violence against Women: User Experiences, Best Practices, and the Law (Video) (Webinar, Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, 20 October 2020)

Algorithmic Policing and the Canadian Charter (Video) (Public talk delivered as part of uOttawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society #CLTSVirtualTalk Series, 7 October 2020)

To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in Canada (Video) (Public talk delivered as part of Ethics of AI in Context speaker series, Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto, 5 October 2020)

Algorithmic Policing and the Art of the (Constitutionally?) Probable (Guest lecture presented at “Technology and the Charter” course by Lex Gill, at McGill University Faculty of Law, 21 July 2020)

Law Reform Approaches to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence and Abuse (Webinar panel for the Canadian Bar Association and Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund [LEAF], 16 July 2020)

The Unimportance of Being Unintended: Digital Platform Harms and Reasonable Foreseeability (Video) (Slide Deck) (Public talk delivered as part of uOttawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society #CLTSVirtualTalk Series, 3 June 2020)

Stalkerware 101: What You Need to Know (Presentation delivered at the 7th Annual Gathering of Family Court Support Workers in Toronto, ON, 2 October 2019)

Uninstalling Fear: What can the law do about stalkerware surveillance and abuse? (Presentation and seminar delivered as part of the Queen’s University Surveillance Studies Centre Seminar Series, Kingston, ON, 25 September 2019)

TELUS v. Wellman: Consumer Rights, Class Action, and Access to Justice at the Supreme Court of Canada (Post-hearing panel discussion with counsel from various parties, University of Ottawa, 6 November 2018)

AI and Decision-Making: Basics, policy, application, and GoC perspectives (Panelist, Ottawa Law & Technology Meetup, Shopify, 1 November 2018)

Convergence, Competition and Common Carriage in the Review of the Telecommunications Act and Broadcasting Act (Panelist, Media Industries and Network Society course by Dr. Dwayne Winseck at Carleton University, 4 October 2018)

Shooting the Messenger? Intermediary Liability & Harmful Online Speech (Panelist, McGill University Faculty of Law, 14 March 2018)

Canadian International Law Students Conference 2018: International Cyber Law Panel (Panelist, Osgoode Hall Law School and University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 9 March 2018)

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cybersecurity and Privacy (18-20 October 2023 | University of Waterloo)

• Privacy Research in Movement Spaces (Presenter)

Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) 2023 (1-2 June 2023)

• Discussant for session on paper by Sarah Scheffler, Milica Maričić & Jonathan Mayers, “The Role of Encryption in Child Exploitation: Evidence from Federal Prosecutions”

Technology and the Law (26 April 2022)

• AI in Public Spaces (Panellist for session as part of Law Society of Ontario symposium) 

We Robot (23-25 September 2021)

• Discussant for session on paper by Marc Canellas, “Anti-Discrimination Law’s Cybernetic Black Hole” (Recording)

Against Platform Determinism (3 March 2021)

• Draft paper accepted for peer workshopping: “All Posts Aren’t Created Equal: A Call for Substantive Equality in Platform Content Moderation”

We Robot (22-25 September 2020)

• Legal Liability and Accountability (Author Panellist)

Citizen Lab Summer Institute (31 July – 1 August 2019)

• Mobilizing Stalkerware Research for Security and Frontline Support (Co-Facilitator)

Automated Decision-Making in the Criminal Justice System (22 May 2019)

• Current and Potential Uses of AI in Criminal Law in Canada (Moderator)
• Predictive Policing: Exploring the Tough Questions (Workshop Facilitator)

RightsCon Toronto (16-18 May 2018)

• Trickle-Down Progress: Messaging Traps in Strategic Campaigning (Moderated Roundtable: Session Notes)
• Can trade agreements such as CPTPP, NAFTA, and RCEP be used as a tool for advancing digital rights? (Slide Deck) (Panelist: Copyright & the Public Domain) 
• Policing the Internet, or Promoting Digital Rights: World Intermediary Liability Developments 2018 (Panelist)

BEA2018: Annual Convention of Broadcast Education Association (7 April 2018)

• Developments in rural/under-served community broadband deployment (Slide Deck) (Panelist)

RightsCon Brussels (29-31 May 2017)

• Making Facebook Pay (for the News) (lightning talk)
• Choosing Your Battle (Terrain): Digital Rights Advocacy and Capturing the Grounds of Debate (workshop)
• The Digital is the Political: Anti-Oppression Resistance and an Introduction to Migrant Rights for Digital Advocates (roundtable)
• Net Neutrality Planet: What’s Next in the Global Fight for an Open Internet (panel)

Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting (16 June 2017)

• CRTC Interventions 101: A Nuts-and-Bolts Workshop on All the Logistical Details You Never Wanted (But Need) to Know (Slide Deck)

Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute (July 2017)

• Loss in the Time of Convergence: A Tale of Media Woes and Internet Foes (Or: How to Save News Media without Breaking the Internet)