👻 Anything spookier than unchecked #BigTech? Come hang out with me at the @ubcokanagan.bsky.social
Faculty of Management on Halloween for #IdeaFest!

🎃 In-person event: 31-Oct 12-1pm in EME 4116. Registration not required.

#bigtech #governance #wethedata

On the way home from the incredible Attention: Govern or Be Governed conference hosted by @mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social @taylorowen.bsky.social spent two days listening to hard and hopeful presentations, hanging out (in person!) with Valerie Kindarji. Thank you! Great goodies to take home too :)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Spoiler alert: In the Halloween spirit 👻 I'll be getting spooky. I'm giving a talk at the DASH AI Meets Ethics series 🎃 TOMORROW 🎃

Come find out why data can be scary, and what this means for human rights! Register here: datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/events/we-da...

Next stop on the book tour is virtual. I'll be speaking at the DASH AI Meets Ethics seminar on Halloween 👻

⌨️ tinyurl.com/5fz5yt5d

Here's a fun Sunday activity (I can only claim the words)!

Read my piece in 🗞️ @globeandmail.bsky.social about the challenge of "data ownership" and why data about you...isn't entirely yours. 📊 How do data affect human rights? Happy reading! 👇
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...