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Natasha Tusikov

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Associate Professor
On Sabbatical through June 2024

Office: 714A Ross Building South
Phone: 416 736 2100 Ext: 30158
Email: ntusikov@yorku.ca

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Dr. Tusikov’s research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. She is a senior fellow at the Balisillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada and a visiting fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. She is co-author (with Blayne Haggart) of The New Knowledge: Information, Data, and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). She is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Dr. Tusikov is also co-editor of Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? (Routledge, 2021). Her research has been published in Surveillance & Society and Internet Policy Review. Before obtaining her PhD at the Australian National University, she was a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.

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Dr. Tusikov’s research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. She is a senior fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada and a research fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. She is co-author (with Blayne Haggart) of The New Knowledge: Information, Data, and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). She is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Dr. Tusikov is also co-editor of Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? (Routledge, 2021). Her research has been published in Surveillance & Society and Internet Policy Review. Before obtaining her PhD at the Australian National University, she was a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.

Degrees

PhD, Australian National University
MA, Queen's University
BA, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

Information Technologies , Crime, Law and Technology, Private Security Industry, Regulatory Theory, Criminology

Current Research Projects

Smart Cities in Global Comparative Perspective: Worlding and Provincializing Relationships.

    Summary:

    The Toronto portion of this seven-city study focuses on interviews with policymakers, industry actors and civil-society organizations.

    Description:

    The project is a seven-city examination of smart city initiatives: Toronto, Calgary, Stockholm, Barcelona, Singapore, Taipei, and Seoul. It seeks to explore: the objectives of smart city initiatives, as well as their initiators, social coordination logics, modes of legitimization and scales at which they are organized. Insights will provide valuable guidance for future smart city initiatives, helping to identify conditions under which such initiatives foster more open, participatory, just, and sustainable forms of urban development. The primary research question asks, can embedding information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the urban fabric help solve cities’ intricate problems and improve wellbeing? This research focuses on the Toronto portion of the project.

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    Role: Co-applicant

Governing Knowledge and Data in Smart Cities

    Summary:

    Natasha Tusikov is the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2022) entitled “Governing Knowledge and Data in Smart Cities,” in cooperation with Dr. Blayne Haggart and Dr. Nicole Goodman (Brock University), and Dr. Zachary Spicer (University of Western Ontario). This project investigates the central role that the control of data plays in smart cities. The project examines the interaction between state and non-state actors in regulating the creation and use of information within the knowledge-based economy. The project will assess the choices, practices, and norms that shape data collection, analysis, and use, the devices that capture data, and the relationships among government, private sector, and civil society in these processes.

    Description:

    Drawing on the smart city plan designed for Toronto’s Quayside neighbourhood and proposed by Sidewalk Labs, a subsidy of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. as a case study, the project will answer the following questions:
    How do the various actors understand the role of knowledge in the production, use and control over data?
    Who establishes the rules governing the collection, use and ownership of data?
    How does the collection and control of data affect public policy and government regulatory activities?
    What are the implications of the rules governing data on access to information, democratic decision making, and for social inclusion in the community?

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Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century

    Summary:

    This project explores the nature, limits and possibilities of global governance of what British International Political Economist Susan Strange (1994) calls the “knowledge structure,” that part of the political economy involving control over the production, control, and legitimization of knowledge. It focuses on two key and related aspects of the knowledge structure: internet governance; and intellectual property (IP) and data governance. In other words, our research focuses on the means by which information (in the colloquial sense) is communicated, and the means by which information is turned into economically and socially valuable commodities. While these issues are usually examined in isolation, in practice they are intimately related, with IP governing the content flowing over the network and internet governance setting the terms of access and use of the network itself.

    Description:

    This project investigates two key aspects of the regulation of knowledge creation and dissemination (what we call knowledge governance, or the knowledge structure): the heterogeneity of the state and non-state actors involved in this area (which actors are involved); and the scope of knowledge governance (the nature and effects of this governance). On the first aspect, the popularization and spread of the internet has had a dramatic effect on governance structures. Regarding the second aspect, the control of knowledge – intellectual property rights that allow for the appropriation of value in production, or the capture of personal data for the purposes of selling advertising or attempting to ensure state security – has become a (if not the) vector for political, social and economic power. This project has three main research questions:
    1. In terms of governance, which actors are shaping the rules that govern how knowledge is created, disseminated and used in a digital world?
    2. What are the social (economic, political, and creative) effects of these rules?
    3. What representational and distributional issues are posed by the specific forms of knowledge governance currently in place, and how can these challenges best be addressed?

    See more
Effects of Informal Online Regulatory Regimes on Privacy

    Summary:

    The goal of this project is to examine the potential effects on Canadians’ privacy of non-legally binding or ‘informal’ regulatory regimes that are undertaken by globally operating Internet firms and online payment providers. In particular, the project explores risks to Canadian’s privacy resulting from the involvement of Internet companies in informal regulatory agreements with intellectual property rights holders. The expansion of e-commerce facilitates the ability of consumers to acquire counterfeit goods and copyright infringing content such as unauthorised downloads of music, film, and software. To address this behaviour, multinational rights holders, such as Nike, Gucci, Proctor and Gamble, and Microsoft are forming enforcement partnerships with large, mostly U.S.-based Internet firms and payment providers like Google, PayPal and Visa. Instead of using legislation or judicial remedies like litigation or court orders, however, these rights holders are increasingly using non-legally binding regulatory agreements. These agreements, which do not have the force or legitimacy of law, are composed of broadly worded minimum guidelines to direct Internet firms’ enforcement efforts. Under these agreements, Internet firms and payment providers act voluntarily to remove Internet content from websites determined to be illicitly distributing counterfeit products or copyright-infringing material.

    Description:

    This project speaks to two of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s priorities, namely the business of collecting, using and disclosing information on the Internet, and analysis of companies’ codes of practice relating to privacy. The project’s objectives are to explore the following questions to assess how informal enforcement programs operating in Canada, the United States and European Union may affect Canadians’ privacy:
    1) What information from Canadians do intermediaries share with third parties in relation these informal agreements?
    2) What laws and policies govern intermediaries’ sharing of personal information with other corporate actors within these informal agreements, and to what extent are intermediaries compliant?

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Books

Publication
Year

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2023) The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power. Rowman & Littlefield. Open Access.

2023

Haggart, Blayne, Tusikov, Natasha, and Scholte, Jan Aart. editors. (2021) Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? London: Routledge.

2021

Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Natasha Tusikov, eds. (2019). Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha (2017) Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet. Oakland: University of California Press.

2017

Book Chapters

Publication
Year

Tusikov, Natasha (2024) Greener Cities: Intellectual Property and Data in Sustainable Smart Cities. In Bita Amani, Caroline Ncube, and Matthew Rimmer, eds. Elgar Companion on Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals. Pp. 373-394. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

2024

Tusikov, Natasha. Toronto’s Failed Smart City: Intellectual Property, Data, and Bad Governance. In Heather McKeen-Edwards, Ian Roberge, and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, eds. Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choice. Bristol University Press (forthcoming 2024).

2024

Tusikov, Natasha (2021). Censoring Sex: Payment Platforms’ Regulation of Sexual Expression. In M. Deflem and DMD Silva, eds. Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Volume 26, Series Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance. (pp. 63-79). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

2021

Tusikov, Natasha (2021) Internet Platforms Weaponizing Chokepoints. In D. Drezner, H. Farrell, and A. Newman, eds. The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence. (pp. 133-148). Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press.

2021

Tusikov, Natasha (2020) Privatized Policymaking in Toronto’s Proposed Smart City. In M. Valverde and A. Flynn, eds. Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs. (pp. 68-82) Toronto: James Lorimer Ltd. Publishers.

2020

Tusikov, Natasha, Haggart, Blayne, and Kathryn Henne. (2019). Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 285-305.

2019

Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Natasha Tusikov. (2019). Introduction. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-22.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha. (2019). Precarious Ownership of the Internet of Things in the Age of Data. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 121-148.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha. (2017). Revenue Chokepoints: Global Regulation by Payment Intermediaries. In Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales, eds. Platform Regulations: How They are Regulated and How They Regulate Us. Official Outcome of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility. Internet Governance Forum. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/handle/10438/19402

2017

Tusikov, Natasha. (2017). Transnational Non-State Regulatory Regimes. In Peter Drahos, ed. Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

2017

Tusikov, Natasha. Countering Tech Abuse and Pervasive Control in the Internet of Things. In Nicole Goodman and Helen A. Hayes, eds. Regulating Digital. University of Toronto Press.


Monographs

Publication
Year

Tusikov, N. (2017). Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

2017

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

Tusikov, Natasha. (2019). Defunding Hate: PayPal’s Regulation of Hate Groups. Surveillance & Society 17 (1/2): 46-53.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha (2019). How US-made rules shape internet governance in China. Internet Policy Review. 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1408

2019

Tusikov, N. (2019). Regulation through “bricking”: private ordering in the “Internet of Things”. Internet Policy Review, 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1405

2019

Policy Papers

Publication
Year

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2023) The Canadian government’s poor track record on public consultations undermines its ability to regulate new technologies. The Conversation. August 16, https://theconversation.com/the-canadian-governments-poor-track-record-on-public-consultations-undermines-its-ability-to-regulate-new-technologies-211602

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) Corporate News Blockades Underscore the Need to Regulate Big Tech and Rebalance Power. The Globe and Mail. 28 August https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-corporate-news-blockades-underscore-the-need-to-regulate-big-tech-and/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) Digital Infrastructure Is Essential to Modern Life: So Is Its Regulation. Centre for International Governance Innovation. January 19, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/digital-infrastructure-is-essential-to-modern-life-so-is-its-regulation/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) Florida versus Disney Raises Flags about Corporate Incursions into Public Governance. Centre for International Governance Innovation. March 9, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/florida-versus-disney-raises-flags-about-commercial-incursions-into-civilian-governance/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) In the Wake of the Waterloo Attack, Universities Must Take Incitement to Violence More Seriously. Centre for International Governance Innovation, July 20, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/in-the-wake-of-the-waterloo-attack-universities-must-take-incitement-to-violence-more-seriously/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) The Right to Repair Should be Fundamental to Technology Ownership. The Conversation. April 9, https://theconversation.com/giving-canadians-the-right-to-repair-empowers-consumers-supports-competition-and-benefits-the-environment-203302

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) When Platforms Share Data, Detail Is Often Lacking. Centre for International Governance Innovation. April 19, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/when-platforms-share-data-detail-is-often-lacking/

2023

Haggart Blayne and Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Battling the Myths of Internet Regulation as We Consider the Next Iteration of Bill C-10. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 17 January. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/battling-the-myths-of-internet-regulation-as-we-consider-the-next-iteration-of-bill-c-10/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Could Digital Payment Regulation Help Curb Gun Violence. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 14 November. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/could-digital-payment-regulation-help-curb-gun-violence/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Deplatforming Does Not Solve the Problem of Extremist Content Online. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 27 October. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/deplatforming-does-not-solve-the-problem-of-extremist-content-online/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) What have We Learned 10 Years After the Internet ‘Blackout’ Protests? Centre for International Governance Innovation, 25 January. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/ten-years-after-the-internet-blackout-protests-what-have-we-learned/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Worried Internet Rules Will Curb Expression? Online Hate Is Doing That Now. Centre for International Governance Innovation. November 23, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/worried-internet-rules-will-curb-expression-online-hate-is-doing-that-now/

2022

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2021) How “Free Speech” Kills Internet Regulation Debates: Part Two. Centre for International Governance Innovation. September 10. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/how-free-speech-kills-internet-regulation-debates/

2021

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2021) Regulating the Digital Economy in Three Parts: The Conclusion. Centre for International Governance Innovation. September 13. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beyond-speech-regulating-the-digital-economy-part-three/

2021

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2021) Resetting the Debate on Regulating Social Media: Part One. Centre for International Governance Innovation. September 8. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/resetting-the-debate-on-regulating-social-media/

2021

Research Reports

Publication
Year

Tusikov, N. and Haggart, B. (2018) Implementing a National Data Strategy: The Need for Innovative Public Consultations. Commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Waterloo, Ontario.

2018

Tusikov, Natasha (2017) Effects of Informal Online Regulatory Regimes on Privacy. Funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner Contributions Program.

2017

Other

Publication
Year

Tusikov, Natasha (2024) “It’s Time to Expand the Right to Repair to Digital Infrastructure” Centre for International Governance Innovation, 10 January, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/its-time-to-expand-the-right-to-repair-to-digital-infrastructure/

2024


Dr. Tusikov’s research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. She is a senior fellow at the Balisillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada and a visiting fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. She is co-author (with Blayne Haggart) of The New Knowledge: Information, Data, and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). She is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Dr. Tusikov is also co-editor of Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? (Routledge, 2021). Her research has been published in Surveillance & Society and Internet Policy Review. Before obtaining her PhD at the Australian National University, she was a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.

Dr. Tusikov’s research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. She is a senior fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada and a research fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. She is co-author (with Blayne Haggart) of The New Knowledge: Information, Data, and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). She is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Dr. Tusikov is also co-editor of Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? (Routledge, 2021). Her research has been published in Surveillance & Society and Internet Policy Review. Before obtaining her PhD at the Australian National University, she was a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa.

Degrees

PhD, Australian National University
MA, Queen's University
BA, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

Information Technologies , Crime, Law and Technology, Private Security Industry, Regulatory Theory, Criminology

Current Research Projects

Smart Cities in Global Comparative Perspective: Worlding and Provincializing Relationships.

    Summary:

    The Toronto portion of this seven-city study focuses on interviews with policymakers, industry actors and civil-society organizations.

    Description:

    The project is a seven-city examination of smart city initiatives: Toronto, Calgary, Stockholm, Barcelona, Singapore, Taipei, and Seoul. It seeks to explore: the objectives of smart city initiatives, as well as their initiators, social coordination logics, modes of legitimization and scales at which they are organized. Insights will provide valuable guidance for future smart city initiatives, helping to identify conditions under which such initiatives foster more open, participatory, just, and sustainable forms of urban development. The primary research question asks, can embedding information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the urban fabric help solve cities’ intricate problems and improve wellbeing? This research focuses on the Toronto portion of the project.

    Project Type: Funded
    Role: Co-applicant

Governing Knowledge and Data in Smart Cities

    Summary:

    Natasha Tusikov is the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2022) entitled “Governing Knowledge and Data in Smart Cities,” in cooperation with Dr. Blayne Haggart and Dr. Nicole Goodman (Brock University), and Dr. Zachary Spicer (University of Western Ontario). This project investigates the central role that the control of data plays in smart cities. The project examines the interaction between state and non-state actors in regulating the creation and use of information within the knowledge-based economy. The project will assess the choices, practices, and norms that shape data collection, analysis, and use, the devices that capture data, and the relationships among government, private sector, and civil society in these processes.

    Description:

    Drawing on the smart city plan designed for Toronto’s Quayside neighbourhood and proposed by Sidewalk Labs, a subsidy of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. as a case study, the project will answer the following questions:
    How do the various actors understand the role of knowledge in the production, use and control over data?
    Who establishes the rules governing the collection, use and ownership of data?
    How does the collection and control of data affect public policy and government regulatory activities?
    What are the implications of the rules governing data on access to information, democratic decision making, and for social inclusion in the community?

    Project Type: Funded
Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century

    Summary:

    This project explores the nature, limits and possibilities of global governance of what British International Political Economist Susan Strange (1994) calls the “knowledge structure,” that part of the political economy involving control over the production, control, and legitimization of knowledge. It focuses on two key and related aspects of the knowledge structure: internet governance; and intellectual property (IP) and data governance. In other words, our research focuses on the means by which information (in the colloquial sense) is communicated, and the means by which information is turned into economically and socially valuable commodities. While these issues are usually examined in isolation, in practice they are intimately related, with IP governing the content flowing over the network and internet governance setting the terms of access and use of the network itself.

    Description:

    This project investigates two key aspects of the regulation of knowledge creation and dissemination (what we call knowledge governance, or the knowledge structure): the heterogeneity of the state and non-state actors involved in this area (which actors are involved); and the scope of knowledge governance (the nature and effects of this governance). On the first aspect, the popularization and spread of the internet has had a dramatic effect on governance structures. Regarding the second aspect, the control of knowledge – intellectual property rights that allow for the appropriation of value in production, or the capture of personal data for the purposes of selling advertising or attempting to ensure state security – has become a (if not the) vector for political, social and economic power. This project has three main research questions:
    1. In terms of governance, which actors are shaping the rules that govern how knowledge is created, disseminated and used in a digital world?
    2. What are the social (economic, political, and creative) effects of these rules?
    3. What representational and distributional issues are posed by the specific forms of knowledge governance currently in place, and how can these challenges best be addressed?

    Project Type: Funded
Effects of Informal Online Regulatory Regimes on Privacy

    Summary:

    The goal of this project is to examine the potential effects on Canadians’ privacy of non-legally binding or ‘informal’ regulatory regimes that are undertaken by globally operating Internet firms and online payment providers. In particular, the project explores risks to Canadian’s privacy resulting from the involvement of Internet companies in informal regulatory agreements with intellectual property rights holders. The expansion of e-commerce facilitates the ability of consumers to acquire counterfeit goods and copyright infringing content such as unauthorised downloads of music, film, and software. To address this behaviour, multinational rights holders, such as Nike, Gucci, Proctor and Gamble, and Microsoft are forming enforcement partnerships with large, mostly U.S.-based Internet firms and payment providers like Google, PayPal and Visa. Instead of using legislation or judicial remedies like litigation or court orders, however, these rights holders are increasingly using non-legally binding regulatory agreements. These agreements, which do not have the force or legitimacy of law, are composed of broadly worded minimum guidelines to direct Internet firms’ enforcement efforts. Under these agreements, Internet firms and payment providers act voluntarily to remove Internet content from websites determined to be illicitly distributing counterfeit products or copyright-infringing material.

    Description:

    This project speaks to two of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s priorities, namely the business of collecting, using and disclosing information on the Internet, and analysis of companies’ codes of practice relating to privacy. The project’s objectives are to explore the following questions to assess how informal enforcement programs operating in Canada, the United States and European Union may affect Canadians’ privacy:
    1) What information from Canadians do intermediaries share with third parties in relation these informal agreements?
    2) What laws and policies govern intermediaries’ sharing of personal information with other corporate actors within these informal agreements, and to what extent are intermediaries compliant?

    Project Type: Funded

All Publications


Book Chapters

Publication
Year

Tusikov, Natasha (2024) Greener Cities: Intellectual Property and Data in Sustainable Smart Cities. In Bita Amani, Caroline Ncube, and Matthew Rimmer, eds. Elgar Companion on Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals. Pp. 373-394. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

2024

Tusikov, Natasha. Toronto’s Failed Smart City: Intellectual Property, Data, and Bad Governance. In Heather McKeen-Edwards, Ian Roberge, and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, eds. Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choice. Bristol University Press (forthcoming 2024).

2024

Tusikov, Natasha (2021). Censoring Sex: Payment Platforms’ Regulation of Sexual Expression. In M. Deflem and DMD Silva, eds. Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Volume 26, Series Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance. (pp. 63-79). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

2021

Tusikov, Natasha (2021) Internet Platforms Weaponizing Chokepoints. In D. Drezner, H. Farrell, and A. Newman, eds. The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence. (pp. 133-148). Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press.

2021

Tusikov, Natasha (2020) Privatized Policymaking in Toronto’s Proposed Smart City. In M. Valverde and A. Flynn, eds. Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs. (pp. 68-82) Toronto: James Lorimer Ltd. Publishers.

2020

Tusikov, Natasha, Haggart, Blayne, and Kathryn Henne. (2019). Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 285-305.

2019

Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Natasha Tusikov. (2019). Introduction. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-22.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha. (2019). Precarious Ownership of the Internet of Things in the Age of Data. In Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Tusikov, N., eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 121-148.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha. (2017). Revenue Chokepoints: Global Regulation by Payment Intermediaries. In Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales, eds. Platform Regulations: How They are Regulated and How They Regulate Us. Official Outcome of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility. Internet Governance Forum. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/handle/10438/19402

2017

Tusikov, Natasha. (2017). Transnational Non-State Regulatory Regimes. In Peter Drahos, ed. Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

2017

Tusikov, Natasha. Countering Tech Abuse and Pervasive Control in the Internet of Things. In Nicole Goodman and Helen A. Hayes, eds. Regulating Digital. University of Toronto Press.


Books

Publication
Year

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2023) The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power. Rowman & Littlefield. Open Access.

2023

Haggart, Blayne, Tusikov, Natasha, and Scholte, Jan Aart. editors. (2021) Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? London: Routledge.

2021

Haggart, Blayne, Henne, Kathryn, and Natasha Tusikov, eds. (2019). Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha (2017) Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet. Oakland: University of California Press.

2017

Monographs

Publication
Year

Tusikov, N. (2017). Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet. Oakland, California: University of California Press.

2017

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

Tusikov, Natasha. (2019). Defunding Hate: PayPal’s Regulation of Hate Groups. Surveillance & Society 17 (1/2): 46-53.

2019

Tusikov, Natasha (2019). How US-made rules shape internet governance in China. Internet Policy Review. 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1408

2019

Tusikov, N. (2019). Regulation through “bricking”: private ordering in the “Internet of Things”. Internet Policy Review, 8(2). DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1405

2019

Policy Papers

Publication
Year

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2023) The Canadian government’s poor track record on public consultations undermines its ability to regulate new technologies. The Conversation. August 16, https://theconversation.com/the-canadian-governments-poor-track-record-on-public-consultations-undermines-its-ability-to-regulate-new-technologies-211602

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) Corporate News Blockades Underscore the Need to Regulate Big Tech and Rebalance Power. The Globe and Mail. 28 August https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-corporate-news-blockades-underscore-the-need-to-regulate-big-tech-and/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) Digital Infrastructure Is Essential to Modern Life: So Is Its Regulation. Centre for International Governance Innovation. January 19, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/digital-infrastructure-is-essential-to-modern-life-so-is-its-regulation/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) Florida versus Disney Raises Flags about Corporate Incursions into Public Governance. Centre for International Governance Innovation. March 9, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/florida-versus-disney-raises-flags-about-commercial-incursions-into-civilian-governance/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) In the Wake of the Waterloo Attack, Universities Must Take Incitement to Violence More Seriously. Centre for International Governance Innovation, July 20, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/in-the-wake-of-the-waterloo-attack-universities-must-take-incitement-to-violence-more-seriously/

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) The Right to Repair Should be Fundamental to Technology Ownership. The Conversation. April 9, https://theconversation.com/giving-canadians-the-right-to-repair-empowers-consumers-supports-competition-and-benefits-the-environment-203302

2023

Tusikov, Natasha (2023) When Platforms Share Data, Detail Is Often Lacking. Centre for International Governance Innovation. April 19, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/when-platforms-share-data-detail-is-often-lacking/

2023

Haggart Blayne and Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Battling the Myths of Internet Regulation as We Consider the Next Iteration of Bill C-10. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 17 January. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/battling-the-myths-of-internet-regulation-as-we-consider-the-next-iteration-of-bill-c-10/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Could Digital Payment Regulation Help Curb Gun Violence. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 14 November. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/could-digital-payment-regulation-help-curb-gun-violence/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Deplatforming Does Not Solve the Problem of Extremist Content Online. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 27 October. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/deplatforming-does-not-solve-the-problem-of-extremist-content-online/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) What have We Learned 10 Years After the Internet ‘Blackout’ Protests? Centre for International Governance Innovation, 25 January. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/ten-years-after-the-internet-blackout-protests-what-have-we-learned/

2022

Tusikov, Natasha (2022) Worried Internet Rules Will Curb Expression? Online Hate Is Doing That Now. Centre for International Governance Innovation. November 23, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/worried-internet-rules-will-curb-expression-online-hate-is-doing-that-now/

2022

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2021) How “Free Speech” Kills Internet Regulation Debates: Part Two. Centre for International Governance Innovation. September 10. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/how-free-speech-kills-internet-regulation-debates/

2021

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2021) Regulating the Digital Economy in Three Parts: The Conclusion. Centre for International Governance Innovation. September 13. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beyond-speech-regulating-the-digital-economy-part-three/

2021

Haggart, Blayne and Natasha Tusikov (2021) Resetting the Debate on Regulating Social Media: Part One. Centre for International Governance Innovation. September 8. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/resetting-the-debate-on-regulating-social-media/

2021

Research Reports

Publication
Year

Tusikov, N. and Haggart, B. (2018) Implementing a National Data Strategy: The Need for Innovative Public Consultations. Commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Waterloo, Ontario.

2018

Tusikov, Natasha (2017) Effects of Informal Online Regulatory Regimes on Privacy. Funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner Contributions Program.

2017

Other

Publication
Year

Tusikov, Natasha (2024) “It’s Time to Expand the Right to Repair to Digital Infrastructure” Centre for International Governance Innovation, 10 January, https://www.cigionline.org/articles/its-time-to-expand-the-right-to-repair-to-digital-infrastructure/

2024