Natasha Tusikov

Blogger
Associate Professor
Department of Social Science, York University

Natasha Tusikov is an associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University and a senior fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. She is co-author (with Blayne Haggart) of The New Knowledge: Information, Data, and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017), and co-editor of two volumes on technology and internet governance. Before obtaining her PhD at the Australian National University, she was a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.
 

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Blog December 9, 2024

Canadian universities and faculty must continue to push back against the speech-stifling IHRA antisemitism Working Definition

In January 2024, we wrote a blog post (and one of us, Blayne Haggart, wrote a companion piece) for the Centre for Free Expression raising concerns about the weaponization of antisemitism to stifle academic and political speech in the context of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. We wrote it in the context of the then-upcoming and now proposed Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act.
Natasha Tusikov
Blayne Haggart
Academic Freedom
Blog August 6, 2019

“Urban Data” & “Civic Data Trusts” in the Smart City

On June 24, Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, released its three-volume, 1,500-page Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) containing its draft proposals for a smart-city project in Toronto. This post focuses Sidewalk Labs’ discussion of “Creating a Trusted Process for Responsible Data Use” (Part 3 of a chapter on “Digital Innovation” -- Volume 2, Chapter 5--) (Volume 2, Chapter 5. Part 3 proposes the use of a “civic data trust” to govern the “urban data” generated within the proposed smart city project area. 
Natasha Tusikov
Internet and Social Media