Osgoode’s Journalist in Residence Program presents “A Child’s Right to be Forgotten: In Search of a Solution” | Nov. 12 | 3 to 6:45 pm | Room 2027

Journalist in Residence Panel

Osgoode Hall Law School’s Journalist in Residence Program Presents:

“A Child’s Right to be Forgotten: In Search of a Solution”

Roxana Olivera

Journalist in Residence

Monday, November 12, 2018

3:00 – 6:45 PM

Room 2027

Osgoode Hall Law School, Ignat Kaneff Building, York University

Kindly RSVP: https://webform.osgoode.yorku.ca/view.php?id=347234

The Internet has become a modern highway of socialization, a popular means to communicate with people all over the world. But for scores of children worldwide, it has also become a vehicle for victimization and re-victimization, making image-based abuse global at the click of a mouse.

What is it like for children to live with images and narratives of abuse sitting permanently on the anonymous world of the Internet? How does one even measure the overall emotional, psychological, and physical harm associated with the online dissemination of that material?

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was signed on November 20, 1989, long before the Internet came into existence. In the digitized world of the 21st century, whose mandate, and whose responsibility, is it to protect the best interests of children? In a world where an image can travel across borders in seconds, in which jurisdiction might people seek the rights to privacy and to be forgotten? Should transnational tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter be left to self-regulate, or should they be policed?

Inspired by the stories of children whose lives have been forever transformed by their abuse and lack of access to justice, this symposium brings together top legal professionals to explore these questions and much more.

Participants:

Adriana Bracamonte, Lawyer, Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados

Glen Canning, father of Rehtaeh Parsons

Ann Cavoukian, Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence, Ryerson University

Mary Condon, Dean (Interim), Osgoode Hall Law School

Pina D’Agostino, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Trevor Farrow, Professor and Associate Dean (Academic), Osgoode Hall Law School

Joan Gilmour, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Shelley Kierstead, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Stuart Knight, Solicitor (England & Wales)

Roxanne Mykitiuk, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Dan Priel, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Craig Scott, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Lorne Sossin, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Antonio Turco, Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

David Vaver, Professor of IP Law, Osgoode Hall Law School