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GUEST TALKS

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MEDIA & TALKS

SELECT PUBLIC AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

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Expert panel participant (w/ Dr. Anthony Millar, Dr. Martin Pall, and Dr. Riina Bray) for Kingstonians for Safe Technology (K4ST) rally and City Hall Q&A, Saturday 21 September 2019

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Global News Radio London, AM980, 6 September 2018 on Facebook security breach

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Global News Radio London, AM980, 29 March 2018 on Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and Canadian privacy policy

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Bell Radio Network, 1290 CJBK, October 2011 to January 2017, weekly expertise and occasional co-host on surveillance and privacy technology

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CTV London, 22 october 2015, expert interview on the politics of fear and the ‘Ottawa shooting’

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SELECT ACADEMIC TALKS

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"Tracking Surveillance Meta... what? A reflexive stroll through interdisciplinary collaboration" with Chris MacPhee, Director of Operations, Centre for Advanced Computer – 21 June 2019, The Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, 17-22 June, Queen's University
 

"The Cybernetic Governmentality of Apple" – 13 February 2019, SOCY 304 “Surveillance & Empire” instructed by Dr. Alix Johnson, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University
 

"A Day in the Life of Metadata" with Chris MacPhee, Director of Operations, Centre for Advanced Computer – 6 February 2019, Surveillance Studies Centre, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University
 

"A Day in the Life of Metadata" – 27 September 2018, SOC/POL 3387 “Surveillance, Security & Society” instructed by Dr. Benjamin Muller, Department of Political Science, King’s University College, Western University
 

"Visibility, Legibility, and Harm: a Day in the Life of Metadata" – 6 June 2018, Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
 

"Digital Privacy" – Summer School des Projektverbunds Digitale Gesellschaft NRW – Stärkung und Sicherung der Demokratie in der digitalen Gesellschaft 26 July 2018, Bonn University, Germany
 

"A Cybernetic Epistemology of iOS: or, how and whether to (re)invigorate ‘bottom-up’ digital privacy" – 6 June 2018, Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
 

"Surveillance and Privacy" – King’s University College, Western University, the Department of History – HIST4701E “Canada and the United States” instructed by Dr. Stephanie Bangarth, 7 November 2017
 

"Surveillance: Borders and Beyond" featured lecture with Tom Walters, Robert Osbourne – Ryerson University, The School of Journalism. “Making Sense When the World Doesn’t Teach-in”, 13 March 2017
 

"Noise and Surveillance" – King’s University College, Western University, the Department of Political Science – POL4432 “Culture, Technology, Politics” instructed by Dr. Benjamin Muller, 20 November 2016
 

"Surveillance and Privacy" – King’s University College, Western University, the Department of History – HIST4701E “Canada and the United States” instructed by Dr. Stephanie Bangarth, 8 November 2016

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