As crypto moves from the periphery into the mainstream, there’s a lot of enthusiasm but not a lot of information, and regulators are taking notice. In this episode of Big Tech, host Taylor Owen speaks with Ephrat Livni, a lawyer and journalist who reports from Washington on the intersection of business and policy for DealBook at The New York Times. Livni outlines crypto’s evolution and the impact of government intervention on what was once considered a threat to the status quo.
There’s more than one way to make a digital right, and still more ways in which a right, once created, can be rendered useless because of poor implementation. Almost all of the emergent digital rights frameworks lack the means or mechanisms to deal with the inevitable conflicts that will arise. Sean Martin McDonald writes that if we want digital rights that will endure, we’ll need to focus on structuring our participation in their implementation and governance.
Digital technology enables new forms of gender-based violence through anonymity, connectivity, ease of spread, and the permanence of digital content itself, and much of this abuse evades detection. As Ronald Crelinsten explores, tech-facilitated gender-based violence is a “wicked problem,” a symptom of another, larger problem, presenting significant policy and technology challenges. Any effort to deal with it must consider the context in which it’s embedded.
This week CIGI announces the arrival of new senior fellow Jennifer Quaid. Jennifer is an associate professor and vice-dean research in the Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, and an internationally recognized leading legal expert and scholar in the fields of organizational criminal liability, corporate accountability, competition and business regulation. A warm welcome to Jennifer!
The Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) launched in 2020 by Chile, New Zealand and Singapore has drawn little international notice until recently, when a flurry of countries began seeking entry, including China. In this op-ed that also appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Robert Fay and Dan Ciuriak argue that DEPA presents an innovative way to deal with thorny issues related to the digital economy, and Canada should join without delay.
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