Project Overview Digital tools now make it easy to create and share realistic sexual images of someone without their consent. These images can be humiliating, harmful, and difficult to remove once they are shared. While the non-consensual sharing of intimate images is not new, recent advances in synthetic image technology, commonly called “deepfakes,” have made
Project Overview The Law Commission of Ontario’s Workplace Surveillance Project explores the growing use of digital monitoring and surveillance technologies in the workplace, and their implications for areas which may include privacy and human rights, employment and labour law, platform workers, and AI governance. A review of these issues will be published as a public
Project Overview The Law Commission of Ontario is examining why protection orders are failing to prevent intimate partner and family violence in Ontario. At least 434 people — mostly women and children — were murdered in acts of intimate partner violence across the province from 2003 to 2021, according to Ontario’s Domestic Violence Death Review
Project Overview The Law Commission of Ontario’s (LCO) multiyear project on AI Regulation and Human Rights brings together policymakers, legal professionals, technologists, NGOs, academics, and community members to examine the development, regulation, and impact of artificial intelligence (AI), automated decision-making (ADM), and algorithms on access to justice, human rights, and procedural fairness. The project responds
Project Overview The Law Commission of Ontario’s AI in Criminal Justice Project is a groundbreaking survey and analysis of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Canadian criminal justice system. As part of the project, four Issue Papers and an Introduction and Summary were released. Each Issue Paper considers the use of AI in a distinct stage