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The following is an mp3 recording of a lecture I gave at the 2009 National Health Law Conference in Montreal, Quebec. The conference, organized by the Université de Sherbrooke, was held October 2nd & 3rd, 2009 and focused on the theme of grand challenges in health law and policy.
My lecture “The Components of Health” was part of the panel entitled “Grand Challenges Regarding Privatization and Commodification”. You can listen to or download the mp3 recording of the lecture here.
Ever since I moved to ottawa, I have been a huge fan of CBC Radio. So I was thrilled yesterday to be invited for the 3rd time to appear on to talk about our new book, Lessons from the Identity Trail. Below is the text of Nancy Wilson’s introduction followed by a link to the podcast of our interview…
Read moreLast week, members from ID Trail gathered for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada‘s Privacy Lecture Series to launch their new book Lessons From the Identity Trail. The event, which enjoyed an over-capacity turn out, resulted in extensive media coverage across Canada, including an opinion editorial by Ian Kerr and Valerie Steeves in the Ottawa Citizen and broader coverage by the National Post, CBC, CTV, the Edmonton Journal, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Sun and the Ottawa Citizen.
Well deserved shout-outs are owed to Amanda Leslie, Anne-Marie Hayden and Jill Pyle for organizing an impressive event!
Special thanks to the very talented Mark Blevis for providing a podcast of the event, which can be downloaded below
On Wednesday April 8, 2009 members of the ID Trail project will re-assemble to launch their new book, Lessons from the Identity Trail.
The launch will take place as part of the Office of the Privacy Commisioner of Canada‘s Lecture Series at noon in the Albert Salon at the Marriott Hotel, 100 Kent Street (here is a map). At this session, Ian Kerr and Valerie Steeves will offer readings from the book, published by Oxford University Press.
If you plan on attending, please RSVP jpyle@privcom.gc.ca.
The ID Trail is proud to announce that the book will also available online by way of a creative commons licence.
The online version will be released in three parts on April 8, April 28, and May 6.
Stay tuned for more information.
On June 19th, I had the good fortune of being invited to give a dinner speech to all of the speakers at UofA’s annual access and privacy conference, Performing at the Speed of Change. Although I fully understood the drill – they wanted a lighthearted and entertaining 20 minute speil – something happened to me on the plane that turned into a Jerry Mcguire moment. I decided instead to take a more heartfelt look at a difficult and often unaddressed set of issues in privacy advocacy.
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We can reasonably be suspicious of sliding standards for subjecting Canadian citizens to searches by sniffer dogs -- or the next detection technology
Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada released two important privacy-related decisions, both addressing an increasing trend in which Canadian law enforcement agencies use police dogs to conduct random searches of public spaces.
In the coming years, dog searches are sure to be supplemented by electronic noses, sensor networks, artificial intelligence and other highly automated systems that can operate much more conspicuously and effectively than snoop dogs. If they are subject to the same legal standards set out by the majority of the Supreme Court last Friday, it will be the state and not its subjects who will be engaging in "an elongated stare."
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