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The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Abdelhamid Benhmade, PhD candidate and Open AIR researcher, is one of the winners of Global Affairs Canada’s 2020 International Policy Ideas Competition for his project “Africa, a source of growth for Canadian businesses”.

The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society just released Facial Recognition at a Crossroads: Transformation at our Borders & Beyond, a new report on the use of facial recognition technologies at borders.

Presented by the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue Project on AI for Healthy Humans and Environments at the AI + Society Initiativein collaboration with the Centre for Law, Technology and Society and theInstitute for Science, Society and Policy

The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is proud to announce the launch of the Global Pandemic App Watch, a site tracking uptake of COVID-19 contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps around the world.

Dr. Céline Castets-Renard, a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology, and Society, just released Cadre juridique applicable à l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale par les forces de police dans l’espace public au Québec et au Canada: Éléments de comparaison avec les États-Unis et l’Europe, a new report offering a comparative study on facial recognition and polici...

The Centre for Law, Technology, and Society is delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Wolfgang Alschner, received a strategic funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to launch a new Legal Technology Lab, with a mission to harness technology in an effort to reduce law's complexity

Congratulations to Leilani Farha, who received a 2020 Leadership Award from the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association (CHRA)! The Leadership Award “recognizes an individual who has shown leadership in improving housing in Canada through program innovation, policy change, outreach and/or advocacy efforts”.

The Carleton University’s Shared Online Projects Initiatives (SOPI) has awarded a grant to Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa) and Melanie Adrian (Carleton University) to develop an online course that explores religious freedom in law and a human rights framework.

Twice over the past months, Dr. Céline Castets-Renard, a Faculty member at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology, and Society, appeared before the National Assembly of Québec to share her expertise on privacy.