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Robert Diab

@robertdiab.bsky.social

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AI and digital freedoms in Canada: robertdiab.substack.com

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Another insight from The Atlantic piece on reading — the few of us still reading form a small strong subculture. But should we be consoled by this? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bill C-34 promises effective age verification for social media, and effective AI reporting to police, without compromising privacy. But it can't be done.

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Bill C-34 will change our relationships with AI and the bonds we forge with it. It will regulate the content of our conversations but also the way chatbots behave with us...

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

After making it free to test for a couple of weeks, last night Anthropic suspended access to Fable 5...

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

After months in the pipeline... (link below), drawing on the work of @kjhealy.co, @nsrnicek.bsky.social, @mcopelov.bsky.social and @davidgunkel.bsky.social

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The most extensive look at Bill C-22 thus far, finding parts of it "almost certainly constitutionally fatal" — from @cancivlib.bsky.social and @citizenlab.ca (link below)

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Gearing up for a marathon session of interviews today with CBC Radio, from coast to coast, in effort to offer some clarity on Bill C-22.

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Published a few months ago, but out today in the latest issue of the journal...

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Concerns about AI data centre construction out here in British Columbia go beyond to the 2 in Vancouver — to 6 more being built in the Interior.

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another argument against C-22 is coming to the fore: “The most effective way to reduce risk is therefore to limit the amount of sensitive data that is collected and retained, and to ensure that retention periods are no longer than necessary.”

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

NYT: "Although the encyclical includes significant references to scripture and religious teachings, the document in many ways reads like a policy paper from a think tank or a lawmaker."

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Bill C-22 say you don't have to do anything that would create a 'systematic vulnerability'. But then why be so cagey in the way you define it? The gov seems to want the political win of saying 'no backdoors to encryption,' while keeping the door open.

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

CSIS in the Globe today on Bill C-22: On one occasion, a foreign partner gave us phone numbers we couldn't trace. So now everyone's metadata must be retained — everyone must be surveilled — so we don't have that problem again. If we ever do.

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Trying out Perplexity's Comet browser, made free to all users yesterday. Had been using Arc's Dia browser. Found that enormously useful. P's Comet so far faster, more functional. Will write about it shortly... Here's a table comparing the two...

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Bill C-2 Backgrounder — the missing manual! t.co/y2ORIYSoHI

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Experimenting with GPT's new image capabilities... Sartre on the seawall...

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Are sexual deepfakes a crime in Canada? Following up on my blog post earlier this month with a deeper dive for Criminal Law Quarterly...

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