Karen Yeates and Taim Saeed

Tanzania is one of nine global country sites collecting data from cervical cancer screening that is being used to further develop, train and validate a deep learning algorithm to be deployed as software on devices that take cervical images. In an era when AI holds a seemingly endless horizon of potential to revitalize underserved healthcare systems, is the race to develop it leading us to deprioritize the security of those systems and the rights of the patients within them?

Pat de Brún

Investigations have found that Meta, through its Facebook platform, played a role in the ethnic cleansing and persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar's Rakhine State, in 2017. This case study discusses one of the burning governance dilemmas in tech policy today: the question of platform liability for hosting and amplifying harmful third-party content.

Natasha Tusikov

Despite Canada’s recent progress on right to repair laws, this case study argues that the questions of who has the right to repair and under what conditions remain core concerns for anyone who purchases and uses software-enabled devices.

Stephen Harrison

The Wikipedia editing community is struggling with the emergence of new generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs). Should the volunteer editors who create and maintain Wikipedia’s articles be permitted to use new generative AI tools, or should they be prohibited because of the high risk of introducing misinformation into the popular internet encyclopedia?

James W. Hinton, Ethan Ellsmere

Shopify is in a billion-dollar battle. Often described as the darling of the Canadian tech sector, the Ottawa-born firm’s explosive growth has propelled it to the forefront of the digital merchant space. It is no secret, either to Canadian policy makers or to the platform’s merchants, that Shopify has begun confronting the multi-trillion-dollar ecommerce giant, Amazon.