This content is not available in the selected language. L’avalanche des mégadonnées (Big Data) semble emporter, impétueuse, les derniers vestiges de la vie privée, un concept juridique à peine mûri sous l’impulsion des valeurs libérales et de l’individualisme champion des Lumières. Alors que le fisc scrute ouvertement les profils des contribuables sur les médias sociaux […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. À l’été 2017, Sasha Reid, étudiante en criminologie à Toronto, élaborait une base de recherche des personnes disparues au Canada. En se basant sur les données recueillies par elle sur internet relatives aux circonstances, lieux et dates de trois disparitions survenues à Toronto, elle est parvenue à […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Nous vivons dans un monde connecté où des quantités phénoménales de données circulent nuit et jour à travers le globe. Alors que le Big Data se définit par son ampleur, l’Open data se caractérise par son usage, son ouverture, son intention de démocratiser l’information pour en […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Cet Hiver 2018, l’équipe du Laboratoire de cyberjustice se lance dans la rédaction d’une série de 11 blogs sur le Droit Algorithmique, en vue de dresser un premier tour d’horizon des pratiques, des acteurs et des projets qui émergent dans ce nouveau champ de recherche au […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Actuellement sur toutes les lèvres mais encore peu comprise, la blockchain est une nébuleuse dont les experts admettent comprendre seule une petite facette des possibilités offertes par cette nouvelle technologie. Qu’est-ce que la blockchain ? C’est une technologie qui permet le stockage et la transmission d’informations, de […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. In our last column, we announced that, over the coming months, we would share the results of the research conducted by members of the Towards Cyberjustice project. Although this is still planned for future entries, we chose to postpone these posts to take the time to […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Canada is consistently touted as one of the best countries in which to live, but it ranks an unimpressive 112 out of 190 countries according to the World Bank’s enforcing contracts indicator. For good reason: Our civil-justice system is on the fritz. Litigating a civil claim […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Three University of Ottawa law professors have uploaded an article entitled Mobile and Web-Based Legal Apps: Opportunities, Risks and Information Gaps to the SSRN website: “Mobile and web-based apps are one technology with the potential to improve access to justice, either by helping lawyers increase the […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. As most lawyers would agree, few recent court cases have had the impact of last year’s Supreme Court decision in R. v. Jordan. A quick look at the CanLII website tells us that it has already been cited in over 200 other decisions in the 8 […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Predicting the outcome of Supreme Court decisions has long been a favorite parlor game for political scientists, attorneys, and legal-system junkies. People have built statistical models, predictive algorithms, and flow charts, and have used machine learning to try to guess what the justices will decide. Some […] Read more
