Neve Peric
Communications. Helping great Canadians do interesting things in innovation policy/international relations/Arctic/art
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Canadian publishers call on Ottawa to force Big Tech to pay for news
A landmark News Media Canada report says companies such as Google and Facebook 'extract unfair terms from news publishers without offering fair compensation'
Neve Peric
"the nature of the data-driven economy is such that it structurally breaks markets because it features economies of both scale and scope, information asymmetries; and, network effects which subvert both public good and fair market competition."
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The Anti-Mask Revolution Was Organized on Facebook
Shortly after VICE News reached out about Canadian anti-masker groups, Facebook deleted several of them.
Francis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unions
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis became the first pontiff to endorse same-sex civil unions in comments for a documentary that premiered Wednesday, sparking cheers from gay Catholics and demands for...
Des millions pour un ex-député
La firme de l’ancien député libéral Frank Baylis profite des retombées d’un contrat de 237 millions$.
Google Abuses Its Monopoly Power Over Search, Justice Department Says In Lawsuit
The antitrust lawsuit against Google is the most significant action the federal government has taken against a technology company in two decades. Google calls the lawsuit "deeply flawed."
WSJ News Exclusive | Justice Department to File Long-Awaited Antitrust Suit Against Google
The lawsuit, which accuses the search giant of anticompetitive conduct, will mark the most aggressive U.S. legal challenge to a company’s dominance in the tech sector in more than two decades.
Google Employees Are Free to Speak Up. Except on Antitrust.
A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
More Than a Feeling — Real Life
Emotion detection doesn’t work, but it will try to change your behavior anyway
This is how Canada should deal with Big Tech
Canada needs to follow the lead of the EU and place limitations on the use of personal data.
Canada’s electric dream: Are government incentives and smart R&D enough to build a domestic EV industry? - The Logic
Funding, innovation, consumer adoption and simple practicalities will all shape the auto sector’s future
Five superclusters' remarkable achievements - iPolitics
A quarter of the way through our 10-year mandate, the five superclusters comprising the Innovation Superclusters Initiative (ISI) have already achieved many remarkable things. Together, we are supporting 219 projects across the country, many of...
Expert Reports Filed in CCLA v. Waterfront Toronto by Ben Green :: SSRN
Expert reports filed for the case CCLA v. Waterfront Toronto, on May 10, 2019 and April 29, 2020.
Toronto’s Urban Dream That Was Not to Be
The death of a Google sister company's ambitious plan to develop an empty piece of the Canadian city's waterfront has lessons for what other cities should do when a big corporation comes calling.
A Surprisingly Strong Year of Book Sales Continues
In spite of historical challenges, unit sales of print books were up 6.4% in the first nine months of 2020.
Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press
Ad revenue that used to support journalism is now captured by Google and Facebook, and some of that money supports and spreads fake news.
Businesses mark 50th anniversary with calls for Canada to end Meng Wanzhou case, broaden trade
A gulf is widening between Canadians who want little to do with Beijing and those with financial interests in China who see acquiescence to Beijing’s demands as the simplest way out of the impasse
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Neve Peric
"At the moment, fast-evolving algorithms and dataflows are all largely handled in a way that is invisible to most researchers and regulators — a result of trade secret protections"
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Facebook Bans Content About Holocaust Denial From Its Site
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, once cited Holocaust denial as something he would allow on the social network for free speech reasons.