Data-driven technologies tend to be pitched for a particular context but quickly expand into new forms of control, such as fitness data sold to an employer or location data accessed by the police. In this article, Sun-ha Hong explores the many unanticipated uses of personal data.
Vaccine passports aren’t likely to be a temporary, isolated, public health-related measure. As Elizabeth M. Renieris writes, we should instead view them as just one example of digital identity infrastructure accelerated by the pandemic.
Internet companies are introducing themselves as the only solution to the myriad problems that they helped to create. Ben Klass, Dwayne Winseck and Bianca Wylie explain why a deal that would merge two of Canada’s largest telecom conglomerates has set off a round of alarms.
Please join us in welcoming Brian Klass as a CIGI senior fellow. He is an associate professor of global politics at University College London, a columnist for The Washington Post, and the creator and host of the Power Corrupts podcast.
History, when properly interpreted, can provide us with a perspective from which to see not only the problems of Silicon Valley but also the solutions to them. Preston M. Torbert asks if companies like Google and Facebook could be ignoring the past at their own peril.
Following his conversation with Nicole Perlroth, Taylor Owen considers both Google’s recent shutdown of a Western counterterrorism operation and how, in the world of cyberwarfare, an offensive advantage is also a glaring defensive vulnerability.
Apr. 22 – 1:30 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): Are COVID-19 vaccine shortages ahead? And if they are, will protectionist policies determine who can access the vaccine? Join Simon J. Evenett for a discussion on the root causes of vaccine shortages and how governments can respond to mounting trade tensions. A question period moderated by Robert Fay will follow.
May 18 – 1:30 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): Shelly Bruce, chief of the Communications Security Establishment, joins CIGI for a virtual event focused on the importance of deterring malicious cyber operations and technologically enabled risks to Canada’s national security. A question period moderated by Aaron Shull will follow.
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