Canada's First and  Only Public Interest Technology Law Clinic

Do you have a favourite singer?  Maybe you’ve daydreamed about what it would sound like if they sang your favourite song — even one they’ve never recorded.    Has Taylor Swift ever sung Call Me Maybe ? Officially, no.  But a quick search on YouTube might make you hesitate. With AI-generated voice technology, you can now hear something eerily convincing: “Taylor Swift” singing a song she never recorded. In this video , the voice sounds familiar. The style feels right. And ye

On Thanksgiving Monday, I received an email from CIPPIC’s Director, Professor David Fewer, asking me for an urgent favour. The name matched and the tone seemed professional, but something was off—the email had come to my personal  email account, not my school account. I immediately realized that it was a phishing attempt.     Within a short time, other CIPPIC student interns reported receiving similar messages. This raised a serious question about the source of the informatio

Humanity faces an unprecedented biodiversity crisis: our  sixth mass extinction . Only this time, it is driven not by natural forces but by human actions  such as habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation, and climate change. Extinction rates now exceed natural extinction levels by 1,000 to 10,000 times  and species populations across the planet are collapsing at alarming rates. The World Wildlife Fund  reports an average global decline of 69%  in...