Professor Scassa, and a Centre鈥檚 Faculty member, earned $189,916 from the Insight Program for her project entitled "Developing a Public Interest-Based Approach to Ownership, Users' Rights and Privacy Interests in Publicly Accessible Platform Data". Many online platforms host huge volumes of data that are publicly accessible, and include things like photographs and personal data. But the law on ownership, control and reuse of publicly accessible data is underdeveloped. The proposed research will provide a detailed legal and interdisciplinary analysis of competing claims for how publicly accessible data can be used and controlled. Professor Scassa and her team will examine rights of ownership and control, the rights of web users, and the privacy rights of contributors of online data.
Beside this research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council also awarded grants in which some of our Faculty members are involved:
Professor Scassa is a co-applicant on an Insight Grant project led by of Ryerson University, entitled 鈥Canadian smart cities: Smart for all or only some?鈥
Professor, is a collaborator on an Insight Grant project led by of Concordia University, entitled 鈥Virtual graveyards and cybermemorials鈥.
厂厂贬搁颁鈥檚 aims to support and foster excellence in social sciences and humanities research intended to deepen, widen and increase our collective understanding of individuals and societies, as well as to inform the search for solutions to societal challenges.
Congratulations to Professor Scassa and Professor Martin-Bariteau!