Oct 24, 2024Artificial Intelligence
For now, lawyers who use ChatGPT to save time must be comfortable with a certain amount of cut corners: the chatbot sprinkles inaccuracies in otherwise excellent answers and convincingly pretends to know about cases it has never heard of—these mistakes are too insidious to catch the eye of those in a hurry.
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Oct 29, 2024
The federal government may be risking a repeat of the Online News Act debacle by playing chicken with online streaming platforms over payments to Canadian cultural funds.
Aug 8, 2024Copyright, Accessibility, Innovation
Canadian copyright cases often make reference to balancing protection of and access to copyrighted works, or to balancing the rights of creators against users or the public interest. However, these simple categories of creators and users ignore the variety within each of these categories...
Jul 29, 2024Communications, Digital Expression, Open Information
The Online News Act aimed to help calm the financial seas for Canadian news organizations, but a year later the waters remain choppy with infighting, financial woes, and disappointment.
Nov 13, 2024Communications, Consumer Protection, Data, Digital Expression, Privacy, Security
In a landmark decision, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision involving Facebook’s (now known as Meta) breach of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Oct 25, 2024
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Sep 11, 2024Privacy, Surveillance
In September, CIPPIC participated in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's exploratory consultation on privacy and age assurance. The submission questions whether age assurance systems can effectively determine a user's age without breaching privacy rights. It also proposes a tool designed to assess whether an age assurance system is truly privacy preserving.
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