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Privacy Rights, Data Protection, and Fundamental Freedoms
I have devoted my academic and advisory work to protecting privacy and data protection since 2014/2015.
That was the year I first read in-depth about the Snowden leaks. In 2015, I participated in my first digital security training for human rights activists and I began my work as a research assistant for hacker anthropologist Prof. Gabriella Coleman.
When we guard privacy and ensure data protection, we enable the protection of other fundamental rights and freedoms.
Writing
- ✨ New! Yuan Stevens. Model Standards, Model Law? The Path Dependence of PIPEDA's Enforceability Issues, Canadian Privacy Law Review, 2024
- Yuan Stevens, Ana Qarri, Sam Andrey & Joe Masoodi. Face Recognition Technology for the Protection of Canada’s Parliamentary Precinct and Parliament Hill? Potential Risks and Considerations, The Dais, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022
- M.J. Masoodi, Nour Abdelaal, Stephanie Tran, Yuan Stevens, Sam Andrey & Karim Bardeesy. Workplace Surveillance and Remote Work: Exploring the Impacts and Implications Amidst Covid-19 in Canada, The Dais, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2021
- Yuan Stevens & Sonja Solomun. Facing the Realities of Facial Recognition Technology: Recommendations for Canada’s Privacy Act, on behalf of The Dais, Toronto Metropolitan University 2021
Submitted to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
- Yuan Stevens. Parasitic Platforms: Addressing Surveillance Capitalism Through Face Recognition Technology, Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust, McGill University, 2022
- Yuan Stevens. To Protect our Privacy and Free Speech, Canada Needs to Overhaul its Approach to Regulating Online Harms, The Conversation, 2021
- Yuan Stevens & Sonja Solomun. Facial Recognition Technology Speeds Ahead as Canada’s Privacy Law Lags Behind, The Ottawa Citizen, 2021
Speaking
- Yuan Stevens. Privacy Threats in the Context of Intimate Relationships: Sociotechnical Vulnerabilities in Canada’s Legal System, SERENE-RISC Annual Workshop: The State of Canadian Cybersecurity, 2020
- Age Assurance: Let Me Reassure You? RightsCon, Hosted by EDRi’s Ella Jakubkowska, 2023
- Nani Jansen Reventlow, Nele Achten & Yuan Stevens. Fuchsia Privacy Salon: Law, Technology and Policy, Google, 2021
- Darlene Carreau, Simon Bonk & Yuan Stevens. The Impact and Lessons of Covid-19 on the Efficiency of Justice and Functioning of the Judiciary, Future Justice and Corrections: Building a More Accessible, Responsive, Secure and Efficient Justice System, Public Sector Network, 2021
- Katarina Germani, Jon Khan, Colin Lachance & Yuan Stevens. Privacy in a Digitized Judicial System, Ensuring Improved Security and Privacy for Court Information in Canada, Ontario Bar Association Privacy Law Summit: Privacy and Access to Information Law, 2021
- Yuan Stevens, Sonja Solomun & Sam Andrey. Facing the Realities of Facial Recognition Technology: Improved Data Protection Regulation to Protect Vulnerable Populations, Actualizing AI — EPIC Symposium on AI Regulation, 2021
In The News
- Data Privacy as a Human Right Must Be Recognized by Privacy and AI Bill, Say Advocates – The Hill Times, May 2024
- Being Watched: How Surveillance Amplifies Racist Policing and Threatens the Right to Protest – Don’t Call Me Resilient, Oct. 2021
- RCMP Wants to Use AI to Learn Passwords in Investigations, but Experts Warn of Privacy Risks – The Globe & Mail, Nov. 2021
- Scan QR Codes With a Side of Caution, Say Privacy Experts – CBC Cost of Living, Sept. 2021
- Facial Recognition Technology ‘Fundamentally Undemocratic,’ says Angus as Critics Wary of Political Use – The Hill Times, July 2021
- Could Face and Voice Recognition Become the New ’Phrenology’? – CBC Spark, June 2021
Workshops and Roundtables
- The Future of Data and AI, Policy Horizons Canada, Government of Canada, 2024
- Models for Online Platform Data Access for Researchers: Existing Efforts and Future Opportunities, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2021
- Debating the Right Balances for Privacy Law in Canada Roundtable Discussion, Public Policy Forum, 2021