Jon Penney is an Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; a Research Associate of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CATLab) at Cornell University’s Department of Communications; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
A legal scholar and social scientist, Jon’s expertise is at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights, with strong empirical dimensions and an emphasis on emerging technologies. He studied law at Columbia Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and at Oxford University as a Mackenzie King Scholar. In 2016, he obtained his DPhil in “Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences” from the Oxford Internet Institute (Balliol College). Before joining Osgoode, he taught law at Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and spent time as a Research Associate at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. More recently, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media.
Jon’s award winning research on privacy, security, technology, and human rights has received national and international attention, including coverage in the Washington Post, Reuters International, New York Times, Newsweek, TIME Magazine, NBC News, CBC, The Guardian, Le Monde, The Times of India, among others, and has been profiled in both WIRED and Harvard Magazine.
Technology law, intellectual property, public and constitutional law, copyright, public domain, virtual worlds.
12:00 -13:00, Schwarzman Centre
With Jon PenneyIn this talk, Jon Penney examines the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us.
