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RightsWatch Conference 2013

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The Canadian Civil Liberties Association's (CCLA) annual RightsWatch Conference brings together a wide variety of stakeholders and community members, including scholars, public officials, lawyers, students and interested members of the public for an intimate conference on important topics and issues regarding our civil liberties.

This year, Ryerson University's Office of the Vice President, Research and Innovation, the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre, and the Ryerson Law Research Centre are pleased to partner with CCLA to present Civil Liberties and Democracy in the Digital Age: Privacy, Media and Free Expression. There will be a series of discussions on the impact that new technologies and modes of communication have on legal and societal understandings of privacy, freedom of expression and the media. We are planning panels on surveillance, anonymity and expression in ‘public’ space, freedom of the press and the citizen journalist, the application of constitutional guarantees of privacy to new communications technologies, access to information and ‘open’ government, and privacy and expression in the private sector.

Join us Friday, September 20, 2013 for an evening keynote and reception, and Saturday, September 21, 2013 for a full-day conference.

More details on panels and speakers will be announced shortly.

The RightsWatch Conference takes its name and inspiration from the CCLA/PBSC RightsWatch Blog. To learn more about the RightsWatch Blog, and CCLA’s project partnership with Pro Bono Students Canada, visit ccla.org/events/rightswatch/.

Conference Topics

EXPECTATIONS OF PRIVACY AND THE CONTEST OVER ‘PUBLIC’ SPACES
Governments, private businesses and individuals are increasingly monitoring and recording what happens in public space. When there is a public disturbance, many people’s first reaction will be to reach for their cell phone, and start recording. Strings of security cameras installed by private businesses track us as we walk down the street. The police regularly deploy mobile surveillance trucks at protests. New and emerging technologies such as drones and automatic license plate readers hold the potential to automate and greatly expand the monitoring and tracking of movements in public space.

All these activities hold significant implications for privacy, anonymity, freedom of expression and accountability, and Canadian courts are being asked to grapple with these tensions. In 2006, an Alberta union set up a camera to videotape individuals crossing a picket line, along with a sign saying they may post images of those people on a ‘CasinoScabs’ website. Some of the people who were filmed filed a privacy complaint, and won an order requiring the union to cease collecting, using or disclosing the information. The case has made it to the Supreme Court, which must now decide whether the laws that protected these individuals’ privacy unjustifiably restrict freedom of expression. This session will explore the privacy, accountability and freedom of expression implications of pervasive and diverse surveillance in public spaces.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND THE CITIZEN JOURNALIST
Citizen journalism has become a staple of the contemporary media landscape. As raw footage of police shootings flows from youtube to the nightly news, the boundaries between traditional media and individual news gathering become blurred. What are the barriers private individuals face when engaging in news-gathering activities? Does the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protect their work? And how can traditional media and citizen journalism interface?

CYBER BULLYING: CAUSES, EFFECTS AND RESPONSES
A series of tragic deaths across Canada have brought bullying, and in particular cyber bullying, squarely into the public consciousness. Legislators, educators and the general public are grappling to find appropriate and effective responses. Nova Scotia, responding to the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, recently passed the wide-ranging Cyber-Safety Act. Other provinces have introduced a variety of different measures, and the federal government is considering amendments to the Criminal Code. Join us for a lunch-time discussion of the complex causes of and responses to bullying, an evaluation of the recent legislative changes, and the implications that these measures have for freedom of speech and privacy.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND OPEN GOVERNMENT
Democracy and the right to vote mean little if the citizenry cannot access information about their own government’s deliberations, decisions and actions. Canada’s federal government has been called out numerous times for its “culture of secrecy”, and has faced widespread criticism from diverse constituencies for muzzling independent voices, clamping down on information flow to the press, and obstructing public access to government information. Our panelists will discuss the current state of affairs in access to information, and provide a vision of what a truly transparent, open and accessible government might look like.

POLICE POWERS AND FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
New technologies are changing the way that police investigate crimes and search for evidence. They are also challenging traditional conceptualizations of privacy. How is our constitution – and in particular the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure – interfacing with these changes? Are our expectations of privacy shifting when we operate in digital space? And how might this impact police search powers?

PRIVACY AND EXPRESSION IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR
Private companies are hungry for information about their consumers and employees. Customer data is collected, stored, aggregated, used and sold. Employees are asked to submit to surveillance, drug tests, fingerprinting and background checks. These activities are done in the name of improved products, better information, workplace safety and security – but they also have implications for societal freedom on a larger scale. What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of the private sector’s quest for data? And can we effectively control what companies do with our personal information, or are we held hostage to the ‘I agree’ checkbox?

INTERNET FREEDOM – ENABLING REPRESSION OR REVOLUTION?
In 2000, Bill Clinton stated that attempting to control the Internet in China would be like trying to “nail Jell-O to the wall”. Over a decade later, the Chinese and numerous other foreign governments have proved highly adept at tracking and controlling online activity. Recent revelations from the UK and USA have confirmed that almost all our online activity is monitored. And in Canada, the government has tried, and failed, to introduce ‘lawful access’ legislation to delve deeper into digital communications. Yet we persistently also refer to the Internet as a radically democratic communications forum. Individuals and local communities continue to use online and networked communications to great effect – leaking citizen videos to ensure accountability, organizing large demonstrations, multiplying the reach of dissenting viewpoints and engaging thousands – or millions – in advocacy campaigns. Technology is a tool that can either be put to use to serve democracy and enhance freedom, or entrench power and support authoritarianism. Are we winning or losing the battle?

Friday, September 20, 2013
5:00 PM	Registration opens Privacy/expression fair
6:00 - 7:30 PM	WELCOME Sukanya Pillay, Interim General Counsel, CCLA, and Dr. Wendy Cukier, Vice-President, Research and Innovation, Ryerson University CONFERENCE KEYNOTE Moderator: Sukanya Pillay, Interim General Counsel, CCLA Speakers: William Binney, NSA whistleblower Ben Wizner, Director of ACLU’s Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
7:30 – 8:30 PM	CONFERENCE RECEPTION

Saturday, September 21, 2013
8:00 – 9:00 AM	Registration Begins
9:00 – 10:20 AM	PLENARY SESSION 1 – Expectations of privacy and the contest over ‘public’ spaces Moderator: Avner Levin, Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management, and Chair of the National Privacy and Access Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association Speakers: Stephen McCammon, Legal Counsel at the Office of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Andrew Clement, Professor, Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto Cara Zwibel, Director of the Fundamental Freedoms Program, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
10:40 – 12:00 PM	CONCURRENT SESSIONS Panel 1 – Freedom of the press and the citizen journalist Moderator: Lisa Taylor, Undergraduate Core Skills Director, Ryerson University Journalism Program Speakers: Kathy English, Public Editor, Toronto Star Brian Rogers, Media lawyer and Adjunct Professor, Ryerson University School of Journalism Derek Soberol, citizen journalist Panel 2 – Police powers and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure in the digital age Moderator: Lisa Austin, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Speakers: Frank Addario, CCLA Board of Directors; Former President of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association Hamish Stewart, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto Jacquelyn Burkell, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
12:20 – 2:00 PM	LUNCH AND PLENARY SESSION - Cyber bullying: causes, effects and responses Moderator: Danielle McLaughlin, Director of Education, Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Education Trust Speakers: Penny Milton, former deputy minister of the Premier’s Advisory Council on Health, Wellbeing and Social Justice in Ontario David Fraser, Internet, technology and privacy lawyer, McInnes Cooper LLP
2:15– 3:30 PM	CONCURRENT SESSIONS Panel 3 – Access to information and open government Moderator: Ivor Shapiro, Chair, ethics advisory committee of the Canadian Association of Journalism Speakers: Paul Knox, Associate Professor, Ryerson School of Journalism David Eaves, Public Policy entrepreneur Pippa Wysong, freelance science writer and board member of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association Panel 4 – Privacy and expression in the private sector Moderator: David Fraser, Internet, technology and privacy lawyer, McInnes Cooper LLP Speakers: Andrew Lokan, Adjunct Professor of constitutional litigation, Osgoode Hall Law School Jonathan Obar, Postdoctoral research fellow, Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto Tina West, Chair of Marketing Department, Ted Rogers School of Management
3:45 – 5:00 PM	Plenary session 2 – Internet freedom – enabling repression or revolution? Moderator: Carmen Cheung, Acting Director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Speakers: Valerie Steeves, B.A., J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa Alexander Smith, Lawyer, Torys LLP Micheal Vonn, Policy Director, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
5:00 PM	Wrap up, thank yous
5:30 – 6:30 PM	CCLA annual general meeting

CONFERENCE KEYNOTE BIOS
	William Binney is a mathematician and analyst who focuses on intelligence analysis, traffic analysis, system analysis, mathematics, and knowledge management. He worked for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Information Technology, Targeting and Analysis Systems Program Office, where he defined statistical modeling techniques and advanced analytic processes, to support the modernization of CBP’s Targeting and Analysis systems, tools, and analytical processes to perform predictive analysis of terror-related cargo and passenger transactions. As a member of Entity Mapping LLC., Mr. Binney worked on a contract for a major government organization. The contract effort centered on analysis of data to produce new entities and communities of interest. of interest. Mr. Binney held a variety of high level positions over a 32 year career at National Security Agency.
	Ben Wizner is the Director of ACLU’s Speech, Privacy & Technology Project. He has litigated cases challenging airport security policies, government watchlists, internet censorship, extraordinary rendition, and torture. He has appeared regularly in the media, testified before Congress, and traveled several times to Guantánamo Bay to monitor military commission proceedings. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
PLENARY SESSION 1
	Avner Levin is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management, and Chair of the Law & Business Department. He heads Ryerson University’s Law Research Centre which focuses on research related to law and legal education. He is also the Director of the Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute, a centre for research related to privacy and cybercrime. He is an alumnus of Tel-Aviv University, holding a B.Sc. and LL.B. degree, and of the University of Toronto, holding an LL.M. and S.J.D. Professor Levin’s research interests include the protection and legal regulation of personal and private information, both locally and internationally. Among his recent research areas are social media, online advertising, the workplace, mobile devices, corporate risk management, electronic health records and the smart electricity grid. He has been a recipient of funding from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Public Safety Canada and Industry Canada. Professor Levin has published his work in journals such as the American Business Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, the International Journal of Information Security and the Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. He is the co-author, with Mr. Howard Simkevitz of the “The Law of Employee Use of Technology” and is a frequent commentator on these topics in the media.
	Stephen McCammon is Legal Counsel at the Office of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner. Stephen provides the Commissioner with a broad range of legal services with an emphasis on issues relating to administrative law, privacy, transparency and the state. Prior to arriving at the Commissioner's Office in 2004, Stephen spent 10 years at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, 1st as an articling student, then as staff counsel. Stephen lives in Toronto with his spouse and their two children. When he isn’t in the thick of things with his work, family, friends and neighbours (and sometimes when he is), he studies and practices Tai Chi. Stephen McCammon travaille pour le Bureau du Commissaire à l’information et à la protection de la vie privée depuis 2004. En evant, il a travaillé pendant 10 ans à l’Association Canadienne des Libertés Civiles. Sa carrière a été consacrée aux libertés civiles et à la vie privée.
	Andrew Clement is a professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program. Clement’s research and teaching and consulting interests are in the social implications of information technology and human-centred systems development. He has written papers and co-edited books in such areas as: computer supported cooperative work; participatory design; workplace surveillance; privacy; women, work and computerization; end user computing; and the 'information society' more generally. Clement’s recent research has focused on public information policy, internet use in everyday life, digital identity constructions, public participation in information/communication infrastructures development, and community networking.
	Cara Faith Zwibel joined the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in April 2010. She is currently Director of the CCLA’s Fundamental Freedoms Program.Cara graduated from McGill University in 2001 with an Honours degree in Political Science. She received her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2004, and articled as a law clerk to the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004-2005, before being called to the Ontario bar in 2005. Cara also received her Master of Laws degree from New York University, where she was an Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar. Prior to joining the CCLA, Cara worked as an Associate at a large national law firm, practicing in the areas of public law, health law and commercial litigation. She has experience representing clients at all levels of court and before administrative tribunals, and has co-authored published articles on the rule of law in the Supreme Court of Canada and on Charter advocacy. Her work with the CCLA involves providing legal opinions and research, coordinating interventions before the courts, preparing submissions to legislative bodies and assisting with the CCLA and CCLET’s public education work.
PANEL 1 BIOS
	Lisa Taylor. Throughout her career, Lisa has focused on the intersection of law and journalism. She holds a Master of Laws from Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. She advocates greater rule-flexibility and a more robust exercise of personal agency to ensure that sexual assault complainants have the freedom to speak publicly about their own lived experience. Prior to attending law school, Lisa spent a decade with CBC Radio & Television in a wide range of journalistic roles. After attaining an LLB from Dalhousie Law School, Lisa returned to CBC, ultimately becoming a network justice and legal affairs specialist; she also co-created and hosted of two nationally-broadcast legal affairs series. Lisa is a member of the Canadian Centre on Court Technology’s Social Media & the Courts working group, as well as Ad Idem (the Canadian Media Lawyers’ Association). She is a former member of the national board of directors of LEAF (the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund). Lisa currently teaches in the journalism program at Ryerson University, where she also serves as the undergraduate core skills director.
	Kathy English is public editor of the Toronto Star. She has reported and edited for six Canadian daily newspapers. She taught journalism at Ryerson School of Journalism for 10 years. In her Ryerson sabbatical year, she completed a Master’s degree in Canadian history, writing a thesis on 20th century newspaper ownership trends and the demise of family ownership of Canadian newspapers. She has launched websites for two Canadian media companies, SunMedia (Lifewise.ca) and Transcontinental Media (Mochasofa.ca) and also directed the launch of the San Francisco-based parenting website, BabyCenter Canada. Kathy served on the board of the National Newspaper Awards for 5 years and is a former board member of the Organization of Newspaper Ombudsmen. She currently serves on the Ethics committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists and the programming committee of the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
	Brian Rogers is a lawyer practicing media law and related litigation, with an emphasis on libel, privacy, copyright, freedom of expression and Internet-related issues. He represents writers, producers, newspapers, magazines, book publishers, broadcasters and electronic media. He maintains an active practice of pre-publication and pre-broadcast review for newspapers, magazines, book publishers and documentary filmmakers. He has appeared before all levels of courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada in a number of key media law cases. He was founding President of Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association (1998-2000) and continues as a director. He is an Adjunct Professor, Ryerson University School of Journalism, teaching media law to graduate students. He was the first Canadian member of the Defense Counsel Section, Media Law Resource Center, a U.S.-based international organization for which he co-authors annual surveys on Canadian libel and privacy laws and is Co-Chair of its International Media Law Committee. He was Canadian legal representative to the Chapultepec Conference on Freedom of Expression (Costa Rica, 1998) and Hemispheric Summit on Justice and Freedom of the Press in the Americas (U.S.A., 2002) and was on the board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression from 2000 to 2005. He is co-author of Journalists and the Law: How to Get the Story without Getting Sued or Put in Jail (1985) and author of the Canadian chapter in the International Libel & Privacy Handbook (3d Ed, 2013; Bloomberg Press). He has authored and edited articles and books on media law, constitutional law and civil litigation and has spoken on those topics at conferences in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. The Attorney General of Ontario has appointed him to the Justice-Media Liaison Committee (2007 to present) and the Advisory Panel on Legislation Against SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) (2010).
	Derek Soberol is a citizen blogger who has been active documenting during the G20 and Occupy movements.
PANEL 2 BIOS
	Lisa Austin is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, where she is affiliated with the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. She holds a bachelor’s degree from McMaster, and a law and doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the faculty, she served as law clerk to Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Austin was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2006. Professor Austin's research and teaching interests include privacy law and property law.
	Named one of the 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada in 2010 and past President of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA), Frank Addario has frequently appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada. He regularly represents individuals and corporations under investigation or who are the target of enforcement proceedings by police and regulatory agencies. In 2011 he was given the Lexpert Zenith Award for contributing to Access to Justice for his work in leading the CLA in a boycott of Legal Aid in order to bring attention to the chronic underfunding of the program and force the government to provide better access to justice for its poorest citizens. In 2012 he received the Dianne Martin Medal for Social Justice Through Law. Osgoode Hall Law School awards this medal to a member of the Canadian legal community who has demonstrated a commitment to using the law as a means for achieving social justice. Frank is frequently asked to explain criminal law issues by the media. He writes and speaks about criminal law and civil liberties to lawyers and to the wider public on a regular basis. His interest in advocating for those whose rights need defending has led him to become a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. After practicing at the respected firm of Ruby & Edwardh and leading the criminal law litigation group at Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, he founded the Addario Law Group in 2012.
	Hamish Stewart is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, where he has taught criminal law, evidence, and legal theory since 1993. His most recent book is Fundamental Justice (Irwin Law, 2012), a treatise on s. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He is also the principal author of Sexual Offences in Canadian Law (Canada Law Book, 2004), General Editor of Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 3d ed. (Emond Montgomery, 2011), and the author of the Evidence title of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010). He has published more than 60 scholarly papers on topics in criminal law, evidence, legal theory, and economics. He is a frequent participant in judicial education programs across Canada. Professor Stewart previously studied and taught economics, receiving his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1983 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1989, and teaching in the economics department at Williams College in Massachusetts. He received his LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto in 1992, clerked at the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992-93, and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Editor of the Canadian Criminal Cases. In the fall of 2012, he was a Visiting Foreign Expert at the College for Criminal Law Sciences, Beijing Normal University, where he taught Introduction to Canadian Criminal Law.
	Jacquelyn Burkell is an Associate Professor and Dean of Research at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies. Herresearch focuses on the interaction between users and information, with particular emphasis on the influence of cognition on information use. Specific aspects of this research include examinations of information credibility assessment, the use of information in decision making, and human-computer interface design. Current projects include a review of the impact of decision-making heuristics and biases on the interpretation of health information for patients participating in health decisions.
LUNCH AND PLENARY SESSION BIOS
	Having spent her youth involved with social activism, Danielle McLaughlinjoined the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Education Trust in 1988. Since that time, Danielle developed the CCLET programs “Teaching Civil Liberties” and “Civil Liberties in the Schools.”Her publications in Education Canada include “The King of Denmark and the Naked Mole Rat: Teaching Critical Thinking for Social Justice” Vol. 52.1 (Winter 2012): 6 – 9; “Talking to Strangers: Making Distinctions,” Vol. 46.4 (Fall 2006): 31; and “Cultivating the Habits of Democracy: Asking the Hard Questions,” Vol. 45.1 (Winter 2005): 33-35.Since 1996, CCLET’s “Teaching Civil Liberties” and in-schools programs have been supported by grants from the Law Foundation of Ontario. The programs reach many thousands of school-aged students, teachers, and teacher-candidates at Ontario’s faculties of education. Teacher-candidate workshops and seminars deal with the competing rights and controversial issues that every teacher is likely to face once in the classroom. At each interactive workshop, participants are instructed to “Avoid Consensus!” Between 1997 and 2001, Danielle represented the Canadian Civil Liberties Association on the Toronto Police Services Board sub-committee on Race Relations. In 2010, she was named 2010-2011 Law Foundation of Ontario Community Leadership in Justice Fellow which took her to the University of Windsor, Faculty of Education to work on projects regarding Teaching Critical Thinking for Social Justice. Danielle is co-author, with her son Reuben McLaughlin, of the That’s Not Fair! series of civil liberties stories for children.
	Penny Milton has served in a variety of positions in education including trustee, school board chair, staff of a teachers’ union, school boards’ association and is the former CEO of the Canadian Education Association. Most recently with Debra Pepler Penny conducted the External Review of the Halifax Regional School Board’s Support of Rehtaeh Parsons for the Government of Nova Scotia.
	David Fraser is well-known as one of Canada’s leading internet, technology and privacy lawyers. He regularly advises a range of clients – from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies – on all aspects of technology and privacy laws. David advises private and public sector clients to implement compliance programs for Canadian privacy legislation, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada), the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Nova Scotia) and the Privacy Act (Canada). David is widely recognized as one of Canada’s foremost authorities on privacy law and other legal issues associated with cloud computing. He regularly advises vendors and customers in connection with implementing cloud computing projects, in both the public and private sectors. In addition, David is the Past President of the Canadian IT Law Association and the former Chair of National Privacy and Access Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. David was honoured to be included in the inaugural (2006) and each subsequent edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the category of Information Technology law. In 2009, David was named as one of Canada’s “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” by Lexpert. He is a member of the faculty of Dalhousie Law School, where he teaches Internet and Media Law, Law and Technology, and Law and Policy for Electronic Commerce. He is on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.
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	Ivor Shapiro teaches ethics and feature reporting and conducts research into aspects of ethics and excellence in journalism at Ryerson University. He chairs the ethics advisory committee of the Canadian Association of Journalism, and is the founding editor of the Canadian Journalism Project (J-Source.ca), a national website providing information, commentary and resources related to the achievement of, and challenges to, journalistic excellence. Born and raised in South Africa, Shapiro immigrated to Canada in 1985. He is a former contributing editor of Saturday Night magazine and managing editor of Chatelaine magazine. He has written feature articles for those magazines as well as Toronto Life, The Walrus, Maclean's, Today's Parent and The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, among others. Ivor has been honoured six times at the National Magazine Awards and has been a finalist for a Canadian Association of Journalists award for investigative journalism. His first book of literary journalism, What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith and Conscience in One Catholic Church (Doubleday, New York: 1996), was praised by critics in Canada as well as the U.S. Shapiro's magazine writing has been chosen for several anthologies, and he is the editor of The The Bigger Picture: Elements of Feature Writing (Emond Montgomery Press, 2008). His academic research has been published in Journalism Practice, Canadian Journal of Communication, and Newspaper Research Journal.
	Paul Knox is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at Ryerson University, where he was chair from 2005 to 2010. He has taught international journalism, news reporting, feature writing, copy editing, media ethics and critical journalism issues. His research interests include challenges to freedom of expression, international news practices, journalism as a form of knowledge and the journalistic memoir. He was with The Globe and Mail for 27 years as a reporter, columnist, editor and foreign correspondent (Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro), and also worked in Vancouver and Belfast. He earned a BA and MA from the University of British Columbia and studied at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. He served on the board of directors of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression from 2000 to 2006 and is currently a member of CJFE’s Canadian issues committee.
	A public policy entrepreneur, open government activist and collaboration expert David Eaves assists governments and organizations - sometimes at their request, sometimes not - in improving how they serve the public interest through more open innovation. Widely recognized as a leader in the open data movement David serves on the Federal Government's Open Government advisory Panel and served on the Australian Gov 2.0 International Reference Group. In 2009 his work with the Mayor of Vancouver led to the drafting of the Open Motion which initiated the city's open data portal. His 2011 testimony to the Canadian House of Parliament helped inform the country's Open Government strategy. Today David counts among his clients Code for America, the World Bank, Greenpeace as well as several governments and companies. David writes and is frequently asked to speak on open government, public sector renewal and open innovation. He has delivered talks a the White House, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the OECD, the Access to Information Commissioner and numerous others. He posts frequently to his blog (eaves.ca), publishes occasionally in the Toronto Star, and serves as an Editor of the WeGov Blog at Personal Democracy Media. Born and raised in Vancouver, David is a graduate of Queen's University and Oxford University.
	Pippa Wysong is a freelance science writer and board member of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association. She wrote the “Ask Pippa” Q&A science column for kids for the Toronto Star for 20 years, and has contributed news stories and features to a variety of major newspapers and magazines including The Globe and Mail, Scientific American, Canadian Living Magazine, and various international specialty medical newspapers. She also leads communications workshops for scientists who want to improve their comfort level talking to reporters.
PANEL 4 BIOS
	David Fraser is well-known as one of Canada’s leading internet, technology and privacy lawyers. He regularly advises a range of clients – from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies – on all aspects of technology and privacy laws. David advises private and public sector clients to implement compliance programs for Canadian privacy legislation, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada), the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Nova Scotia) and the Privacy Act (Canada). David is widely recognized as one of Canada’s foremost authorities on privacy law and other legal issues associated with cloud computing. He regularly advises vendors and customers in connection with implementing cloud computing projects, in both the public and private sectors. In addition, David is the Past President of the Canadian IT Law Association and the former Chair of National Privacy and Access Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. David was honoured to be included in the inaugural (2006) and each subsequent edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the category of Information Technology law. In 2009, David was named as one of Canada’s “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” by Lexpert. He is a member of the faculty of Dalhousie Law School, where he teaches Internet and Media Law, Law and Technology, and Law and Policy for Electronic Commerce. He is on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.
	Andrew Lokan practices in the areas of constitutional law, appeals, administrative law, labour and employment law, and pension litigation. He clerked for Madam Justice (now Chief Justice) Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90. Prior to joining Paliare Roland, he worked at a national law firm, and taught law at Ottawa University and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He has appeared in more than 20 cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, and regularly appears before a wide range of other courts and tribunals. He has published widely on subjects relating to public law, and is a frequent speaker on these subjects at seminars and conferences. Since 1992 he has acted as Special Counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association on a pro bono basis, and since 1998 he has been an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he teaches constitutional litigation He is co-author of Lokan & Dassios, Constitutional Litigation in Canada (Carswell: looseleaf).
	Jonathan Obar, PhD is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, visiting assistant professor in Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University and associate director of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law (MSU). Dr. Obar is also a senior advisor with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Education Program, and a Media Policy Fellow with the New America Foundation. Jonathan’s research has been published in a variety of academic journals, and generally focuses on the impact that digital technologies have on civil liberties, civic engagement and the inclusiveness of public culture in Canada and around the world. Current work includes participation in the Open Society Foundation’s 60+ country Mapping Digital Media initiative, the New America Foundation’s 30+ country Ranking Digital Rights project, the Communication Research in Action: International Perspectives book project (strategiesformediareform.com), and the SurveillanceWatch and IXmaps counter-surveillance initiatives at UofT.
	Bettina (Tina) West is an associate professor of marketing in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University in Toronto. She has taught a range of courses in marketing, including Research Methods, Internet Marketing and Business Ethics. Tina earned her doctorate in Business Administration at Henley Business School, University of Reading, U.K. in 2011. Her research interests include topics related to corporate social responsibility, reputation, social media marketing and management education. As a member of the Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute, she has recently contributed to several large-scale studies on perceptions of privacy among social media users and advertisers, funded through the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
PLENARY SESSION 2 BIOS
	Carmen Cheung is the Acting Director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Carmen joins the Faculty from the BC Civil Liberties Association, where she served as Senior Counsel, with an expertise in issues relating to national security and international human rights. While at the BCCLA, Carmen acted as counsel in public interest cases, including the Afghanistan Public Interest Hearing, which looked into the transfer of Afghan detainees by Canadian Forces to risk of torture. She has appeared before the House of Commons on matters relating to national security and civil liberties, and is the author of a report on UN terrorist blacklists and their use in Canada. Before relocating to Canada, Carmen was an associate in the litigation department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, where her pro bono practice included challenges to the Bush administration’s various fronts on the “war on terror” in the federal appellate courts and the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as work on behalf of refugees and survivors of trafficking and sexual violence. Carmen received her law degree from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
	Valerie Steeves, B.A., J.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. Her main area of research is in human rights and technology issues. Professor Steeves has written and spoken extensively on online issues, and has worked with a number of federal departments, including Industry Canada, Health Canada, Heritage Canada, the Department of Justice and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, on online policy. She is also a frequent intervener before parliamentary committees, and has worked with a number of policy groups, including the International Council on Human Rights Policy (Geneva, Switzerland), the House of Lords Constitution Committee on The Impact of Surveillance and Data Collection upon the Privacy of Citizens and their Relationship with the State (United Kingdom), and the Children’s Online Privacy Working Group of the Canadian Privacy and Information Commissioners and Youth Advocates. Professor Steeves is committed to transferring new knowledge about online human rights to non-traditional audiences. For example, she founded the Law Room on Canada’s SchoolNet in 1994, and since 1999 has worked with the Media Awareness Network to create interactive educational modules designed to help young people learn how to protect their rights in cyberspace.
	Alexander Smith, BA, MA, PhD, JD, focuses on civil litigation in a variety of areas, including energy/environmental, corporate/commercial, securities, broker/dealer, class actions, and media. Alex has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario and various tribunals, including the Ontario Energy Board and the Environmental Review Tribunal. Alex is a guest lecturer in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law course on climate change law. During law school, Alex was Editor-in-Chief of University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. He was also a research assistant to the Dean of University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
	Micheal Vonn is a lawyer and has been the Policy Director of the BCCLA since 2004. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the Faculty of Law and in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies where she has taught civil liberties and information ethics. She is a regular guest instructor for UBC’s College of Health Disciplines Interdisciplinary Elective in HIV/AIDS Care and was honoured as a recipient of the 2010 AccolAIDS award for social and political advocacy benefitting communities affected by HIV/AIDS. Ms. Vonn is a frequent speaker on a variety of civil liberties topics including privacy, national security, policing, surveillance and free speech. She is an Advisory Board Member of Privacy International.