In a professional update, I’ll be joining @IPCinfoprivacy as a Senior Technology and Policy Advisor in February. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to work with the excellent folks at the IPC, and to use my skills to advance the privacy interests of Ontarians!
For the past several weeks I’ve been slowly uploading rafts of 🇨🇦ATIPs about encryption, national security, lawful access, Huawei, export controls, and more to my website. You can find and download (most of) them at: https://t.co/kC3saWA1t8
These documents, broadly, may help other academics and public policy wonks understand the various histories of some of these contentious--and still lively!--legislative and policy debates. As I have time, and resources, I hope to continue posting historical ATIPs.
🔊We are thrilled to announce that applications for our June 2023 Fellowships are now OPEN! 🔊
Between now and February 2nd, we are looking for early-career technologists who want impact tech policy and help Congress address critical issues.
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This @Concordia research project looked at privacy as it relates to central bank digital currency (#CBDC) projects and the conflicting views of key stakeholders: privacy-conscious digital currency users, data holders and law enforcement. https://t.co/POrVAuPv0F
Supplementary Estimates (B), 2022-23 propose to increase CSE budget authority by $102 million, making total 2022-23 budget authority $930 million https://t.co/UrNDCFmUVC
Canada's long-anticipated Indo-Pacific Strategy was released this past weekend. Below are some observations/questions I have after reading it 1/n
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"The gov plans to provide further cybersecurity powers to the Communications Security Establishment.
But given that @cse_cst is impeding lawful review of its activities, we should hesitate before giving it more powers."
By @caparsons of @citizenlab. https://t.co/DoPE9WNjw6
So some folks here were unhappy about a recent paper on ePrint that focuses on “constrained encryption” — with an application being key escrow systems that only work for “illegal content.” Here’s the paper.