Civic hacknight #159 with Natasha Tusikov: Brazil's Internet Bill of Rights

Presenter: Natasha Tusikov, York University

Topic: What Canada can learn from Brazil on Internet Governance

Natasha will be speaking on Brazil's Internet Bill of Rights, known as Marco Civil, which was the first in the world. Its novel crowd-sourced creation offers Canada a useful model to strengthen data protection, including privacy, using a human rights-based approach.

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@NTusikov @yorkuniversity #regulation

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Natasha is an assistant professor of criminology at York University and author of "Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet" (2017). She's also worked as an intelligence analyst at the RCMP in Ottawa.

*** THIS MONTH'S VENUE SPONSOR:

Sidewalk Labs

https://sidewalktoronto.ca/

Sidewalk Labs is an Alphabet company that imagines, designs, tests, and builds urban innovations to help cities meet their biggest challenges. They are designing a district in Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront to tackle the challenges of urban growth, working in partnership with the tri-government agency Waterfront Toronto and the local community. This joint effort, called Sidewalk Toronto, aims to make Toronto the global hub for urban innovation.

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Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

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