@IgnacioCofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, has written a new op-ed 'Ottawa’s AI strategy is built to inspire trust, not protect Canadians' for Policy Options examining whether Canada’s new AI strategy offers meaningful protection against AI-related harms. In the article, Professor Cofone argues that the strategy is designed to inspire public trust and encourage AI adoption, but lacks binding safeguards that limit what companies can do with AI and the inferences it produces. 📄 Read the full op-ed: policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/…

Professor @IgnacioCofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at @OxfordLawFac and Institute for Ethics in AI, has recently been quoted by Al Jazeera(@AJEnglish) in an article examining Canada’s proposed Bill C-36 and whether it goes far enough to address privacy risks in the age of AI. 📄 Read the full article: aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7… The issues explored in the Al Jazeera article are also examined in Professor Cofone’s book, 'Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Comparative Materials', which provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal frameworks governing privacy in Canada. 📚 Discover his latest book: emond.ca/Store/Books/Canadia…

💡Who should decide the standards by which AI systems are assessed? In a new article for @just_security , Professor @IgnacioCofone argues that AI providers, rather than regulators, are increasingly setting the standards against which their own systems are measured. He examines the implications of this shift for AI governance, accountability and oversight and what regulators can do in response. Read the article: justsecurity.org/140955/hand…

📄 Professor @IgnacioCofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at Oxford's Faculty of Law (@OxfordLawFac) and the Institute for Ethics in AI, has recently published an essay in the California Law Review Online, 'Inference, Abuse, and the Limits of Privacy Law'. The essay examines why privacy law in the US and data protection law in the UK, which ask people to protect themselves by opting out and deleting their records, cannot effectively address the challenges posed by AI. Deleting your own records does little, because the prediction is built from patterns across many people rather than from one person's file. Commenting on recent research on data brokers, Professor Cofone argues that the harm they enable comes from inference: the capacity of distributed systems to reconstruct a person by combining scattered, incomplete data. 🔗 Read the full essay: californialawreview.org/onli…

📄 Professor @IgnacioCofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at @OxfordLawFac and the Institute for Ethics in AI, published an op-ed in @globeandmail examining Canada's proposed privacy legislation overhaul, "Can Ottawa save you from the scourge of surveillance pricing?". In the article, Professor Cofone argues that recognising inferred data as personal information is an important step, but not enough to protect individuals in the age of AI: 'C-36 does the hard thing most privacy laws avoid but then uses tools built for a different problem. Canada might end up ahead of Europe on privacy and still not protect you.' 🔗 Read the full article: theglobeandmail.com/business…

📢 Professor @IgnacioCofone, Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the @UniofOxford , Institute for Ethics in AI and Faculty of Law @OxfordLawFac, explores how the 'black box' framing of AI systems is often a deliberate choice rather than an unavoidable feature in his new blog, 'The Black Box is Usually a Choice'. 🔗 Read the blog: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/blo…

📄 We are pleased to share this new white paper by Professor @IgnacioCofone , Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the Faculty of Law (@OxfordLawFac) and the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford (@UniofOxford). Prepared for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's 2026 review of the Privacy Act, the white paper, "Privacy Act Reform for the Age of AI: Accountability, Rights, and Information", examines the challenges that artificial intelligence poses to existing privacy frameworks and identifies approaches to strengthening accountability, rights, and information governance in the age of AI. 🔗 Read the white paper: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/sit…

📚 New chapter from Dr Keri Grieman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI, in the Research Handbook on Interactive Entertainment Law. The chapter (Chapter 7: AI and video games, p.96) explores how artificial intelligence is shaping video games as both creative and technological systems, raising new legal and regulatory questions across the global games industry. The Research Handbook on Interactive Entertainment Law brings together expert contributors to provide forward-looking guidance on key challenges in the field. Structured around the game, community, and business aspects of interactive entertainment, it captures the complex legal landscape of video games as expressive works, social platforms and commercial ecosystems. 🔗 Learn more about the handbook and Dr Keri's chapter: e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/researc…

📢 NEW BOOK Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Comparative Materials, edited by Ignacio Cofone (@IgnacioCofone), Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (@OxfordLawFac) and the Institute for Ethics in AI, offers a comprehensive look at how privacy is regulated in Canada ⚖️ The book brings together key debates shaping privacy today - from online speech harms, and the right to be forgotten, to high-tech policing, the public/private divide, and mass surveillance under international law. What challenge does this book address? Privacy law in Canada is often split across different areas of study, such as tort law, legislation, and constitutional principles. This separation can make the field feel fragmented and difficult to understand as a whole. This book solves that by connecting these areas and showing how they interact in real legal practice. Who is it for? It is useful for a wide audience: – educators looking for a structured and ready-to-teach resource – students who want a clear and accessible way to understand privacy law – legal professionals dealing with privacy issues across sectors like tech, employment, and public law What makes it stand out? Unlike existing materials, this is the first Canadian casebook to combine privacy torts, statutory law, and constitutional protections in one place. Developed over years of teaching at McGill University, it reflects how privacy law is actually taught and applied, with carefully selected cases, notes, and comparative insights. 📚 Find out more about book: emond.ca/Store/Books/Canadia…