The Toronto Public Library (TPL) Digital Expo is coming up on October 4. The theme is incredibly timely: Bridging the #AIDivide. I'll be speaking on a panel about #EthicalAI. Hope to see you there! You can check out my co-panelists, and register at the link below👇

I am really looking forward to speaking @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social Master of Public Policy Program on Sep. 22! I'll be talking about tech, rights, and the future of our digital lives. Register here before Sep. 21st 👇 bit.ly/wethedata #humanrights #wethedata #mcmasterevents

We ought to think about #AI as a #humanrights issue. 💬 Sep. 16, I will be back in Toronto to give the Frank W. Woods lecture at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Come join us! Registration and info here👇 munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/we-dat... #bigdata #humanrights #wethedata

The Toronto Public Library (TPL) annual Digital Expo is coming up in October! 🍁 This year's theme: Bridging the AI Divide. I'll be on a panel discussing #ethicalAI, and how we can achieve that delicate balance between data privacy, security, and public trust. Program and Registration here👇

Our latest #BattleRhythm with @profwhw.bsky.social and I talking about Canada/Carney's stance on Palestine and an interview with the Canadian general in charge of cyber command MG Dave Yarker cdsn.substack.com/p/episode-33...

Jamie Duncan and I are in the @theglobeandmail.com this week! 🗞️ In this piece, we argue that Carney's ambitious plans to enhance Canada's sovereignty is a worthy goal, but requires the simultaneous consideration of several trade-offs. Have a read here 👇 #bigdata #datasovereignty #wethedata

I contributed to Critical AI’s two-part special issue, and it is now live on the @dukepress.bsky.social website! In this article, I respond to Anthropic AI’s Samuel Bowman on the matter of today’s LLMs. 🔐 For 2 weeks, this issue is open to the public: #bigdata #humanrights

Everyone will need to read this! 📖🤓 Great cover, even better innards. @greenprofgreen.bsky.social has no shortage of smart and zippy insights on climate change, the politics of carbon, and why we need to think about the financial assets that contribute to/mitigate global warming.

"We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age," by @profwhw.bsky.social explores how Big Tech's data tracking undermines our humanity. The winner of the 2024 Balsillie Prize joins @spaikin.bsky.social to unpack the cost of digital surveillance.

I had a fantastic time presenting @ Re-Sounding Poetries event led by SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership [spokenweb.ca], in collab w/ the AMP Lab. Thank you Karis Shearer & Klara du Plessis for chairing this discussion on critical data issues & for organizing the institute. #wethedata #spokenweb #bigdata

Thank you to Steve Paikin and to the @tvotoday.bsky.social team for having me on, I had a fantastic time working with you!

Congratulations to Wendy Wong @profwhw.bsky.social whose upcoming work MIRRORED STATES has been sold to Nick Garrison and Marion Garner at Penguin Canada by Martha Webb! 🎉

Catch Battle Rhythm co-host Dr. Wendy Wong @profwhw.bsky.social on The Agenda with Steve Paikin @tvotoday.bsky.social May 20th!

Tonight, I'm on @tvotoday.bsky.social The Agenda w/ the brilliant Steve Paikin(tune in 8pm & 11pm ET! 📺) We chatted re: data stickiness, human rights values in the digital age, & the importance of data literacy. ➡️ www.youtube.com/theagenda ➡️ www.tvo.org/theagenda #wethedata #bigdata #dataliteracy

I am so excited about this new project! Now, back to writing ⌨️

🗞️ A second Signal mistake by Hegseth. I wrote in the Globe and Mail about this. Hegseth pointing fingers at leakers w/o thinking about the truth of digital comms. Encryption & sec. protocols do not preclude data stickiness when sharing w/ the wrong person, especially w/ national security concerns.

Great convo w/ Profs. Dan Priel & Richard Haigh from Osgoode Hall Law School to chat about my recent book, "We, the Data" and the need to re-imagine human rights in our data-intensive world. Check out the episode on Spotify & iHeart Radio 📻 #datagov #wethedata #bigtech

Tomorrow [Apr. 17] I will be at the Vancouver Human Rights and Accommodation Conference. My fellow panelists and I will be addressing the potential challenges and uses of AI at work. Thx to Lancaster House Publishing for organizing this important event! Registration 👇 #aiatwork #datagov #wethedata

🗣️ Our Digital Transparency Cluster (DTC), in collab w/ @universityofexeter.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on Preparing for an AI Future. True to DTC's mission, the experts hail from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, including computer science, humanities, & AI industry. #datagov #aifutures

I'm in the March/April 2025 issue of the Director Journal by the Institute of Corporate Directors talking about how control of your data lies beyond your hands, even after death. You can check out the interview on pp. 48-49 📰 #datagov #bigdata #wethedata

I'm in the @theglobeandmail.com 🗞️ Signal & 23andMe are both in the news this week for different reasons, but they raise the same concerns about non-gov entities which store & control our data. Policymakers take note: those who control the data are in charge. #datagov #bigdata #23andme #signal

🍁 Canadian public servants, register for the Data for Impact series, an initiative of the Canada School of Public Service. Thu. March 27 @ 1:30-2:30pm (ET) I'll be talking about data governance, human rights, and human potential. Read more and register here 👇 #canpoli #wethedata #dataforimpact

In "We, the Data," political scientist @profwhw.bsky.social argues for a human rights framework to reassert our personhood, autonomy, and dignity in the face of datafication. She joined CBC Radio's IDEAS to explain what it means to be "datafied":

Thank you so much @carletonu.bsky.social for having me as your 2025 Political Science Keynote. In this talk, I asked us to think about a big question: 💭 What if we think of data as from humans, by humans? As co-creators of data that is gathered and used, we urgently need human rights values.

I was on the CBC Ideas 💡 podcast w/ the brilliant Nahlah Ayed, talking about data stickiness and how we need to become stakeholders in the data we co-create. Thank you to the fantastic production team at CBC! Listen on CBC Listen App, or your fave app 👉 link.chtbl.com/IDEAS. #ideas #wethedata #cbc

On Wednesday, I will be in #Victoria for the International Privacy and Security Summit #VIPSS organized by @rebootcomm.bsky.social. As the opening keynote speaker, I will be discussing why human rights questions around AI are actually data questions. I'll be on March 12 @ 8:40am -- register here!👇

My keynote lecture Carleton University (carletonu.bsky.social) is tomorrow at 5pm. I'll be talking about data governors and human rights. Hope to see you there! You can register below:

A great opportunity to hear @profwhw.bsky.social talk about her book (We the Data) here at Carleton.

I am very pleased to be delivering the 2025 Political Science Keynote Lecture at @carletonu.bsky.social on March 6 from 5-6:30pm. If you're interested in data governors and human rights, come join us! You can register here👇 carleton.ca/polisci/?p=3... #humanrights #data #wethedata #governance

What are you up to for V-Day? 💘 How about a chat about holding data collectors and aggregators accountable? Join Heather Krause and I at Talking Data Equity this Friday Feb. 14 at noon (ET). The best part is that you can submit your questions for us to discuss! 🙂 You can register here:

Curious about holding data collector/aggregators accountable? Join Talking Data Equity Fri Feb. 14th @ 12pm (ET) w/ me & Heather Krause from #WeAllCount. We will also answer live questions from attendees 🎙️ so don't hesitate to bring your Qs! Hope to see you there 🙂 weallcount.com/talking-data...

If you're curious about my book "We, the Data", I'll be discussing it today on a virtual panel at UofT. Link to register is below, open to UBC and UofT staff+students 🙂

Celebrating Data Privacy Day with @profwhw.bsky.social and amazing colleagues from @uoft.bsky.social at 3pm ET. Join us as we discuss "We the Data" and what we can do to protect data as a human right. #dataprivacyday #staysafeonline search.app/4Gy7WbdE2CtR...

The brilliant @smsaideman.bsky.social from @cdsn.bsky.social visited us at UBC to give a talk about how different states exercise democratic control over the #military. Great Qs from the audience. It was a FULL house!... we really should have planned for overflow seating 😅 #UBC #politics

In the latest #BattleRhythm podcast, @profwhw.bsky.social and I discuss democratic backsliding, Trump's inauguration, tariffs and more, and then Commodore Jason Armstrong explains Naval Force Development--subs! soundcloud.com/cdsnpodcasts...

If you are a student or staff at University of Toronto or University of British Columbia, register for Data Privacy Day. In this [virtual] panel, we'll be discussing my book, "We, the Data"! Register here 👉 public.eve.utoronto.ca/events/5342 #wethedata #dataprivacy #booktalk #UofT #UBC

Had a blast on #BattleRhythm podcast with @smsaideman.bsky.social and Artur Wilczynski (University of Ottawa). I interviewed a trio of Canada's brilliant #quantum experts: Kristen Csenkey (CIGI), Benjamin T. Johnson (University of Groningen), and Greg Dick (Open Quantum Design). Check it out! 🎙️

And it will be a wonderful convo (also we're doing a roundtable for the brilliant @audieklotz.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of her classic Norms in International Relations, 2nd ed!!!!).

What a memorable evening hosted by @writerstrust.bsky.social for the #BalsilliePrize. Oh... and we also met the brilliant Margaret Atwood! Thx Tom Pandi (tompandi.com) for your lovely pictures. My book "We, the Data" has never looked so good! 😄 #publicpolicy #humanrights #datagovernance

And….. she is the first woman to win the Balsillje prize. Congrats @profwhw.bsky.social!!!

Happy news! I was honoured to receive the Balsillie Prize for my new book We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age! I am so thankful to the selection committee at Writer's Trust of Canada, and to the phenomenal Balsillie Prize finalists: Gregor Craigie, Christopher Pollon, and M.G. Vassanji 📚

Wendy H. Wong wins 2024 Balsillie Prize for her book We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age: The jury called Wong’s book an ‘eye-opening, gripping look at the ways in which humanity is being codified, monitored and tracked at alarming speed and intensity – in largely unaccountable ways’

This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”

I am so excited to share that my book "We, the Data" is nominated for the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy! The finalist will be announced Tuesday, Nov. 26 in Toronto. The Toronto Star has shared excerpts from the finalists' books – read them here 🗞 #publicpolicy #digitaltech #balsillieprize

📣 NEW ARTICLE 📣 in journal Regulation and Governance! Jamie Duncan, David Lake, and I recently wrote a paper called "Why Data About People are Hard to Govern." 🔥 It's available open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really jazzed about this latest #BattleRhythm episode as it is Wendy Wong's first as co-host and she did an excellent interview with Janice Stein. just a fun first segment with me discussing the American campaign, Sudan, and, yes, strudel comparative analysis soundcloud.com/cdsnpodcasts... #canpoli

I really enjoyed chatting with Misha Da Vinci - we talked about all kinds of things including We, the Data, AND some of the extensions that follow from the book. Stop by and listen here 🎧 and wherever else you get your pods.  open.spotify.com/episode/4tI5...

I'm doing an AMA on Reddit for another hour or so. Stop by and ask a question! About AI, or data, or dogs! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

Such a nice feeling to be part of someone's class, especially in such good 📚 company. Thanks for including We, the Data in your syllabus!

🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Fiona O' Connor, Barbara Sobol and I are in the Toronto Star this morning! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... TL;DR: Libraries aren't just about books!! They're at the forefront of digital citizenship and literacy.