Event
Human Rights and Contact Tracing Apps
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 13:00to14:00
Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/88371367211
Price:
Free.
Contact tracing apps are designed to track the spread of COVID-19, but have raised serious privacy concerns and questions surrounding intrusive data collection.
In this panel organized by the º«¹úÂãÎè International Law Society, four human rights and technology experts will discuss COVID-19 contact tracing apps in relation to a range of human rights issues, including legal and policy implications.
- Dr. Teresa Scassa, Full Professor and Canada Research Chain in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law
- Dr. Ann Cavoukian, creator of Privacy by Design, and former Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
- Estelle Massé, Senior Policy Analyst and Global Data Protection Lead at Access Now
- Irene Poetranto, Senior Researcher at the Citizen Lab, and doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science
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