Law Bytes

Michael Geist

Episodes 10
Avg. Duration 35m
Activity Highly Active
Since Dec 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Monthly
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Episodic
Consistency
42%
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www.michaelgeist.ca

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About This Podcast

In recent years the intersection between law, technology, and policy has exploded as digital policy has become a mainstream concern in Canada and around the world. This podcast explores digital policies in conversations with people studying the legal and policy challenges, set the rules, or are experts in the field. It provides a Canadian perspective, but since the internet is global, examining international developments and Canada’s role in shaping global digital policy is be an important part of the story. Lawbytes is hosted by Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and where he is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society.

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Recent Episodes

Episode 270: Roundtable on the Bill C-22 Risks for Canadian Tech Companies Featuring VPN Services Tailscale and Windscribe

Jun 01, 2026 28m

Over the past week, the concerns over Bill C-22, the government’s lawful access bill, continued to mount. Many companies, notably including Apple, Google, Meta, Signal, and DuckDuckGo, have spoken…

Episode 269: Inside the Bill C-22 Committee Hearing for the Case Against Government’s Lawful Access Plans

May 25, 2026 33m

The government’s lawful access bill has been the target of criticism for weeks, with companies, governments, and experts on privacy and security all sounding the alarm. Much of the momentum against…

Ep. 265 – Jason Millar on Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the Governance Crisis in Frontier AI

Apr 20, 2026 34m

In a year in which AI has truly dominated much of the news cycle, the story of Anthropic’s Mythos may be the biggest story of them all. A version of the popular Claude AI service is reportedly so…

Episode 261: Ian Goldberg on the Privacy Risks of Age Assurance Technologies

Mar 16, 2026 32m

Age verification, estimation or inference is seemingly all the rage right now. Vendors are promoting it as the solution to thorny challenges to limit access to certain sites and services and…

Episode 260: What the Government Didn’t Want You To Hear About Bill C-4 And Its Weak Political Party Privacy Rules

Mar 09, 2026 44m

Last spring, the government quietly inserted provisions that exempt political parties from the application of privacy protections in Bill C-4, an “affordability measures” bill. The government barely…

Episode 258: Jaxson Khan With an Insider Perspective on AI Policy Development in Canada

Feb 23, 2026 38m

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 258: Jaxson Khan With an Insider Perspective on AI Policy Development in Canada Earlier this month, the government quietly released a “what we heard” report this…

Episode 257: Lisa Given on What Canada Can Learn From Australia’s Youth Social Media Ban

Feb 09, 2026 32m

Social media bans for younger users have begun to take hold in various countries, particularly in Europe. In Canada, Bill S-209 may ostensibly be about underage access to pornography sites, but the…

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 255: Grappling with Grok – Heidi Tworek on the Limits of Canadian Law

Jan 26, 2026 29m

The Law Bytes podcast is back, starting with an episode on the limits of Canadian law in addressing the concerns associated with Grok AI, the AI chatbot that garnered global attention over the…

Episode 253: Guy Rub on the Unconvincing Case for a New Canadian Artists’ Resale Right

Dec 08, 2025 35m

The creation of an Artists' Resale Right has been adopted in many countries to at best mixed reviews. They’re unsurprisingly widely supported by potential beneficiaries, but the data on who actually…

Episode 252: Len St-Aubin on the CRTC’s Plan To Modernize Canadian Content Rules

Dec 01, 2025 41m

The CRTC recently released its much anticipated decision on Canadian content rules, the first of two decisions that could reshape broadcasting and film/TV production in Canada. The Commission…

Episode 251: Jennifer Pybus on the Debate Over Canadian Digital Sovereignty

Nov 24, 2025 37m

Digital sovereignty is hot the digital policy phrase of the moment driving discussion on Canadian digital policy involving AI, digital infrastructure, privacy, and cultural policy among others. Yet…

Episode 247: My Senate Appearance on the Bill That Could Lead to Canada-Wide Blocking of X, Reddit and ChatGPT

Oct 27, 2025 35m

Bill S-209, the legislative effort to establish age verification requirements for sites and services that are said to facilitate access to pornography, is back. The bill has some modest improvements…

Episode 245: Kate Robertson on Bill C-2’s Cross-Border Data Sharing Privacy Risks

Oct 06, 2025 50m

Bill C-2, the government’s proposed lawful access legislation, has been the subject of several prior episodes covering warrantless disclosure of information as part of the new information demand…

Episode 244: Kris Klein on the Long Road to a Right to be Forgotten Under Canadian Privacy Law

Sep 22, 2025 32m

The “right to be forgotten” – perhaps better characterized as a right to de-index -  has been a hotly debated privacy issue for well over a decade now, pitting those that argue that the harms that…

Episode 243: What Are Canada’s Digital Policy Plans as Parliament Returns from the Summer Break?

Sep 15, 2025 28m

The return of the Law Bytes podcast series this week coincides with the return of Parliament from its summer break. Digital policy may not be at the very top of the legislative agenda, but there are…

Episode 237: A Conversation with Jason Woywada of BCFIPA on Political Party Privacy and Bill C-4

Jun 23, 2025 37m

The government’s unexpected privacy reform agenda includes both lawful access in Bill C-2 and the evisceration of political party privacy in Bill C-4. While Bill C-4 is framed as implementing…

Episode 236: Robert Diab on the Return of Lawful Access

Jun 16, 2025 39m

Lawful access is back. Bill C-2, the government’s border bill, includes a new information demand power that would result in warrantless disclosure of information about a subscriber, a new…

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