I appeared on the Robson Hall’s Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series on October 7, 2025. There, I discussed Canada’s digital-policy failures, including the need for a more coherent approach to digital governance. The link to the video can be found here.
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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 245: Kate Robertson on Bill C-2’s Cross-Border Data Sharing Privacy Risks
Bill C-2, the government’s proposed lawful access legislation, has been the subject of several prior episodes covering warrantless disclosure of information as part of the new information demand power in Part 14 of the bill as well as some of the surveillance technology capabilities found in Part 15. Those remain major issues, but there is another element of the bill that deserves greater attention, particularly at this moment when the Canada – US relationship is increasingly fraught. That issue involves mandated data sharing with implications for Canada’s international treaty obligations under the “Second Additional Protocol” to the Budapest Convention as well as the US Cloud Act. Kate Robertson, a lawyer and senior research associate at the Citizen Lab in the Munk School at the University of Toronto, wrote an extensive brief on these issues soon after the bill was introduced. She joins the Law Bytes podcast to talk about a critical Bill C-2 issue that has thus far attracted limited attention.
No Nonsense with Pamela Wallin: Digital IDs and the Dangers of a Surveillance State with Michael Geist
I appeared on the No Nonsense podcast hosted by Pamela Wallin on October 1, 2025. In the episode, we discussed digital identity systems, privacy, and the risk that expanded identification and data collection could create a broader surveillance infrastructure. The link to the episode is here.
The Sound Off Podcast: Michael Geist: The CRTC Slow Train
I appeared on The Sound Off Podcast on September 23, 2025. In the episode, we discussed the evolving landscape of Canadian media regulation, the impact of lobbyists on Bills C-11 and C-18, the legislation’s unintended consequences for users, and the need for greater transparency as AI reshapes the media landscape. […]
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 244: Kris Klein on the Long Road to a Right to be Forgotten Under Canadian Privacy Law
The “right to be forgotten” – perhaps better characterized as a right to de-index – has been a hotly debated privacy issue for well over a decade now, pitting those that argue that the harms that may come from the amplification of outdated but accurate content outweighs the benefits of maintaining such content in search indexes. The issue gets its start in Europe, but the Canadian experience has featured privacy commissioner findings and investigations alongside court rulings and provincial reforms.
Kris Klein is one of Canada’s leading legal experts on privacy, access to information and information security issues. He is the founder and managing partner of nNovation LLP, a leading boutique firm specializing in data protection, the Managing Director of IAPP Canada, and teaches the Privacy Law course at my faculty at the University of Ottawa. He joins me on the Law Bytes podcast to discuss the background behind the right to be forgotten, the recent OPC finding, and what may lie ahead on the issue.
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