ep17 - Professor Michael Geist: COVID-19 Privacy and Data Trade-Offs

Stories from the Open Gov

Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds The Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law. He is also a privacy and internet advocate who has received many awards, including being appointed to the Order of Ontario 2018. Today he tells us about some of the necessary privacy and data trade-offs we need to make during COVID-19 and the safeguards to make sure they do not become a slippery slope in the future(we even talk a little Black Mirror). Michael Geist Twitter account https://twitter.com/mgeist Richard Pietro Twitter account https://twitter.com/richardpietro ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/