The U.K.'s communications watchdog Ofcom said it has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X over reports that its AI chatbot Grok is producing non-consensual sexualized deepfakes of women and children.

Ooof. I can’t believe X chose this case, and this place, to fight a global takedown order. Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one. It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/

A national AI strategy is too important to "sprint" through in 30 days. I've signed an open letter alongside 160+ civil society & human rights groups, academics, experts, and advocates, protesting Minister Solomon's "consultation" and demanding a re-do: bccla.org/policy-submi...

The Danish government has cross-party support to "clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice." 1/n www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Join us next week for another thought-provoking panel in the CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series 2025: Freedom to Move! 🗓 June 25, 2025 🕐 1PM EST 📍 Hybrid (in-person and online) 🥪 Lunch provided 🎟 Free with registration → www.eventbrite.ca/e/cippic-sum...

A joy to find this special issue on reimagining justice vis-à-vis AI in my mailbox. I look forward to revisiting provocative articles by @teresascassa.bsky.social , @suziedunn.bsky.social , Pascale Chapdelaine, Gideon Christian, and my colleague Peer Zumbansen's spicy intro. 🔥 @mcgill.ca

✨ Publication alert ✨ We are excited to share our most recent publication in the Canadian Journal of Communication, which examines how Canadian secondary schools address TFSV within their educational curricula, policies, and legislation. Check it out! 👇 cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Congratulations Alex and Krizelle! It was so great teaching such smart students in our Law & Technology course 🎉

Great essay by @daniellecitron.bsky.social and @ariezra.bsky.social -- "Digital Authoritarianism" - discussing a tactic of attacking victims then falsely labeling victims as abusers to invite additional attacks lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...

Join: "Staying Aligned with Global Standards and Commitment on Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence (TFGBV)" 🗓 Date: 12 June 2025 🕙Time: 10:00 – 11:15 AM (EST) 📍Hosted by: UN Women & SVRI’s TFGBV Community of Practice 👉 Join on Zoom Here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8932347881...

NEW REPORT (and a CW - CSAM): Today my colleague Shelby Grossman & I have a new research report about AI-generated child sex abuse material (AI CSAM). Read the report here: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/ai-csam... [1/6]

A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors. 🔗 www.404media.co/no-one-knows...

Canadian civil society and policy experts call on the government to advance a coherent digital policy reform agenda:

Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

A Canadian was behind the MrDeepFakes website The site featured non-consensual videos of celebrities, politicians, influencers, and popular instagramers People used this site to find people to hire to make sexual videos of their spouses and friends The site was shut down following this reporting

never been a cooler time to be a woman online www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

One of the world's largest deepfake porn sites has shut down

There's still time to apply to present a paper at the Canadian Technology Law Conference! Just email your abstract and CV along by May 5. @suziedunn.bsky.social @schulichlaw.bsky.social @jenraso.bsky.social @f-mb.bsky.social @penney.bsky.social @schulichlaw.bsky.social

Writing any interesting law or policy pieces on Democracy and the Information Society? Submit an abstract for the Canadian Technology Law Conference by May 5th Organized by @schulichlaw.bsky.social's Palmer Chair @karanicolas.bsky.social

Join CanRepair for a lunch and learn on Your Right to Repair 📅 Tuesday, May 27, 2025 ⏰ 12:00-2:00pm (ADT) 📍Dalhousie Computer Science building Room 429 or on Zoom Organized by @arosborough.bsky.social & @cdntechlaw.bsky.social Register here!

Join the Canadian Women's Foundation for a webinar launch of their report, "Challenging Gendered Digital Harm" 📆Thursday, April 24, 2025 🕐 7:00 to 8:00 pm Eastern Time (ET) Register here:

The Dalhousie Law Graduate Society is hosting their 5th Annual Graduate Research Transition Conference “The Law and the Future: Sustainability, Accessibility and Emerging Technologies” 📆 May 7, 2025 📍 Weldon Law Building (virtual and in-person) Register (free) here: forms.office.com/r/GAYUXTR83f

Curious about what the Law and Technology Institute has been up to? See our newly revamped publications page A big thank you to @hjrosborough.bsky.social for putting this together for us!

I wrote about this in like 2019, spoke to a college student whose mom would threaten to STOP PAYING THEIR TUITION when they turned off location tracking for any length of time When I asked the app's founder about life360's ability to worsen abusive dynamics, they pivoted the conversation to safety.

#WeRobot2025 @katieszi.bsky.social makes exciting announcement that this summer will see inaugural hopefully-annual natl Canadian law & tech conference, happening at @schulichlaw.bsky.social, organized by @karanicolas.bsky.social @suziedunn.bsky.social & team of other tech law profs across country!

Advocates' Society's apology comes after sharp criticism of cancellation of Tareq Hadhad's speaking invitation

Good morning #WeRobot2025! Day 2 and reporting for duty. So excited to hear @elizabethjoh.bsky.social 's comments on the first paper "Robot-Facilitated Crime", hoping I catch at least the second half of the session. It's too early in the day to articulate all the thoughts I had while reading it.

Day 1 of #WeRobot2025! Going to try to reprise my erstwhile role as unofficial livetweeter—now migrated to bsky!—though slightly worse for wear this year, as perhaps indicated by the fact Day 1 is already half over... and perspective of not having read most papers yet (for... relatability... ￢_￢) 🧵

I'm at #werobot2025 and I'm making a bibliography of all the books that I've heard mentioned (librarian gotta librarian). www.zotero.org/copystar/col... I've included *Sourdough*, because it includes a story-line of training a robot to crack an egg. Let me know what I've missed.

Join the Canadian Women's Foundation: Addressing Gender-Based Digital Harm A Conversation with Gender Equality Advocates 📅 April 10, 2025 🕒 12:30-2:00PM Eastern Time 📍 Join us online Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Today I, along with over 40 law professors from across the country, sent an open letter to @advocates-soc.bsky.social urging them to reconsider their decision to cancel a planned keynote talk by Tareq Hadhad, a Syrian-Canadian who is widely known as the founder of @peacebychocolate.bsky.social.

Like many others, she searched her own name and discovered scads of degrading AI-generated abuse imagery. She's spent the last year finding and taking down the content. It's a look at the mind of a deepfake harasser, and a glimpse into the fallout their targets endure www.404media.co/deepfakes-ha...

The Canadian Women's Foundation released a new report on gender-based digital harm in Canada The project also developed an e-learning course to help victims and support workers better understand these harms and how to respond to them

🎉 Huge congratulations to Professor @jcyliew.bsky.social on Dandelion finishing as the runner-up in the 2025 #CanadaReads competition! 📚 Your storytelling on identity & belonging continues to inspire. So proud to have you in our community! 👏 #uOttawaLaw @uottawa.bsky.social

Come work with me!! @schulichlaw.bsky.social has a new opportunity for a Policy and Advocacy fellow. It's a great fit for junior lawyers interested in a transition to public interest and policy work (and you get to spend some time in Halifax!) Full details here: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/18434

ChIPs Eastern Canada chapter is hosting a virtual conversation with the Honourable Justice Louise Arbour Tuesday, March 18th 11:30 am – 1:00 pm EST Register for the event here:

The Legal Innovation Lab is hosting an event next week Towards a Justice Data Common: Improving Data Collection, Analysis and Sharing in Saskatchewan’s Justice Sector 📅 March 28, 2025 🕒 01:00 - 02:00 PM Atlantic Time 📍 Join us online (Zoom session) Please register here:

The list of presenters for this event is absolutely amazing!

One of the more hopeful things I have the privilege of doing right now is organizing to bring wonderful people together from across multiple continents to talk critically about the intersection of law and robots (and AI). Register now. Just over 3 weeks until We Robot 2025!! www.werobot2025.ca

Today, the LCO made its submission in response to the province's consultation on regulations under the Consumer Protection Act, 2023. Read more about the LCO's Consumer Protection project and access our submission here under 'Project Documents': www.lco-cdo.org/en/our-curre...

Congratulations to the @schulichlaw.bsky.social Harold G Fox IP Moot team! Our appellant team, Issac Cain & Juliet Watts, made it to the final round. Our respondent team, Katherine Silins & Liam Sherlock, won the Gordon F Henderson Award for Best Respondent Factum Great coaching by Brendan Peters!

My most recent article "Legal Definitions of Intimate Images in the Age of Sexual Deepfakes and Generative AI" has been published in the McGill Law Journal Read it here!

Looking forward to being in Winnipeg this week to talk about deepfakes, the evolution of sex technology, and the law #UManitoba @umanitoba.bsky.social

Please join the Elizabeth Fry Society on Thursday, March 6th, from 6 to 8:30 pm @schulichlaw.bsky.social for a candle light vigil to mourn those lost to intimate partner violence and to reflect on strategy for prevention, and demand action.

Good luck to @schulichlaw.bsky.social students Issac Cain, Juliet Watts, Liam Sherlock, & Katherine Silins who are competing in the Harold G Fox Moot this weekend! ipmootcanada.ca/rules-and-pr...

From the Canadian Association of Law Libraries: Competencies of a Legal Researcher in Canada. This document articulates the foundational legal research skills for two key groups: legal information professionals and law students. #legalresearch Find the document by clicking tinyurl.com/t9p8xjkm

UNB's Legal Innovation Lab is hosting a Technology and Access to Justice online lecture series The next event features Professor Emily Taylor Poppe who will discuss her recent article, Courts as Data Guardians for the Public Good 📅 February 28, 2025 🕒 01:00 - 02:00 PM ADT 📍 Join online (Zoom)

The Yukon Government’s Department of Justice is looking for someone to build an interactive online course defining Gender-Based Violence. See here for information on bidding on this project.

WeRobot registration is open! The agenda is full of great tech and robotics scholars w/ Canadian representation from @kristenthomasen.bsky.social, @teresascassa.bsky.social, @jenraso.bsky.social, @katieszi.bsky.social, Marina Pavlovic, @sonialawprof.bsky.social, @ignaciocofone.bsky.social and more!

In January, @cdntechlaw.bsky.social welcomed three amazing speakers for our third Tech Tok event: Technological Innovation in Law: Virtual Reality, AI, and Tech Support. Thank you to the presenters for shedding light on these topics with us!