Are technology giants capable of influencing elections through algorithmic muscle, or does their true threat to society lie in market concentration? In this episode of Big Tech with Taylor Owen, Cory Doctorow argues that digital platforms' powers of manipulation and control are essentially an illusion.
In February 2020, the Bank of Canada's Timothy Lane said that there was not yet a compelling case to issue a central bank digital currency. Then, the outbreak of COVID-19 hit Europe and North America. In this interview with Kevin Carmichael, Timothy Lane discusses the Bank of Canada's approach to digital payment systems in the context of a pandemic.
Join us in welcoming our newest fellows: Mai Mavinkurve and Nanjala Nyabola.
Mai is the chief operating officer and a co-founder of Sightline Innovation, which created the world's first cloud-native data trust. Read more about her expertise here.
The Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data remains the only binding international convention on international privacy and data protection. In this paper, Colin J. Bennett explains why Canada has much to gain by joining the Council of Europe's Modernized Convention on Personal Data Protection.
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