Jon Penney

Osgoode Hall Law School

Associate Professor

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Canada

Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Faculty Associate

Harvard Law School

23 Everett, 2nd Floor

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

Citizen Lab, University of Toronto

Research Fellow

Munk School of Global Affairs

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7

Canada

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  • Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

  • Citizen Lab, University of Toronto

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1.

Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 117, 2016
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2016
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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chilling effects, surveillance, NSA, government, Snowden, online monitoring, online surveillance, privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, online rights, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, constitutional litigation, standing, empirical legal studies

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Internet Surveillance, Regulation, and Chilling Effects Online: A Comparative Case Study

(2017) 6(2) Internet Policy Review
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2019
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Chilling effects, internet, online, government surveillance, corporate surveillance, NSA, privacy, internet regulation, human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, online search, online speech, social networks, copyright, DMCA, social computing

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Understanding Chilling Effects

106 Minnesota Law Review 1451 (2022)
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 07 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2022
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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chilling effects, privacy, surveillance, censorship, freedom of speech, first amendment, overbreadth doctrine, technology law, social science, empirical legal studies, human rights, social norms, social conformity,

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Internet Access Rights: A Brief History and Intellectual Origins

William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 10, 2011 (invited contribution to special edition)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Internet, Internet access, legal history, human rights, United Nations, freedom of expression, international law, special rapporteur, freedom of information, telecommunications history

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Privacy and the New Virtualism

10 Yale Journal of Law & Technology 194, 2008
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 21 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Privacy, cyberspace, technology, virtualism, virtualist, realist, internal, externalist, constitution, information privacy, fair information practices, whalen, roe, state action doctrine,

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Understanding the New Virtualist Paradigm

Journal of Internet Law, Vol. 12, No. 8, 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Mar 2009
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Privacy, cyberspace, technology, virtualism, virtualist, realist, internal, externalist, constitution, information privacy, fair information practices, virtualism, penney, jon

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Privacy and Legal Automation: The DMCA as a Case Study

Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, 412
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 07 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2022
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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privacy, automation, legal automation, chilling effects, human rights, DMCA, copyright, digital copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, social media, google, twitter, social network, blogger, artificial intelligence, machine learning, micro-directive, personalization, empirical legal studies

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The Cycles of Global Telecommunication Censorship and Surveillance

Santa Clara Law School - High Tech Law Institute, Internet Law Work-In-Progress Paper Series No.3, March, 2014, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2015
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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internet censorship, privacy, surveillance, telecommunications, international law, global telecommunications, telecommunications history, NSA, surveillance, encryption, communications law, international policy

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When Law Frees Us to Speak

Fordham Law Review, 2019, Vol. 87, at p. 2317 (Forthcoming), U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-01
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2019
Danielle Keats Citron and Jon Penney
University of Virginia School of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School
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online abuse, cyber harassment, expressive role of law, online engagement, sexual privacy, expressive theory, cyber civil rights,

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Online Abuse, Chilling Effects, and Human Rights

in Dubois, E. and Martin-Bariteau, F. (eds.), Citizenship in a Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda, Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press, 2020
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2021
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning

Towards Trustworthy ML: Rethinking Security and Privacy for ML Workshop, Eighth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 27 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 11 May 2020
Kendra Albert, Jon Penney, Bruce Schneier and Ram Shankar Siva Kumar
Harvard Law School, Osgoode Hall Law School, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Microsoft Corporation
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Artificial Intelligence, AI, Machine Learning, Ml, Security, Socio-Technical Systems, Adversarial Machine Learning, Privacy, Security, Human Rights, Spyware, Politics of Technology, Politics of Machine Learning

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Advancing Human Rights-by-Design in the Dual-Use Technology Industry

Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Vol .71, No. 2, p. 104, 2018
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Jon Penney, Sarah McKune, Lex Gill and Ronald J. Deibert
Osgoode Hall Law School, University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, Citizen Lab and University of Toronto - Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, Dual Use, Dual Use Technology, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Private Sector, Financing, Shareholders, Investors, Investment Firms

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Code is Law, But Law is Increasingly Determining the Ethics of Code: A Comment

in Urs Gasser, Jonathan Zittrain, Robert Faris & Rebekah H. Jones (eds.), Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World: Platforms, Policy, Privacy, and Public Discourse, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University 90 (2014), Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2014-17
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 21 Nov 2016
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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code is law, ethics, research ethics, DMCA, CFAA, disclosure

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Legal Risks of Adversarial Machine Learning Research

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020 Workshop on Law & Machine Learning
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 29 Jul 2020
Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Jon Penney, Bruce Schneier and Kendra Albert
Microsoft Corporation, Osgoode Hall Law School, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School
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Adversarial machine learning, security, machine learning, artificial intelligence, law, AI, computer fraud and abuse act, CFAA, legal risks, chilling effects, ML

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Platforms, Encryption, and the CFAA: The Case of WhatsApp v NSO Group

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 101, 2022 (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Mar 2022
Jon Penney and Bruce Schneier
Osgoode Hall Law School and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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platforms, encryption, CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, human rights, cybersecurity, infosec, data breach, privacy, Whats App, NSO Group, hacking, Van Buren, Facebook, Khashoggi,

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Ivan Rand's Ancient Constitutionalism

IVAN C. RAND AT THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA, 1943-1959, DeLloyd Guth & John McEvoy, eds., Supreme Court Historical Society, Forthcoming, Manitoba Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, p. 43, 2010
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Ivan Rand, Canadian legal history, constitutional law, ancient constitutionalism, Supreme Court of Canada, legal philosophy, implied bill of rights

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Can Cyber Harassment Laws Encourage Online Speech?

Urs Gasser, Robert Faris, Amar Ashar, and Nikki Bourassa. (eds.), Perspectives on Harmful Speech Online, Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2017-08, Harvard University
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 28 Mar 2018
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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chilling effects, online harassment, cyberbullying, free speech, first amendment, empirical legal research, cyberharassment, women's rights, gender studies

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Warrant Canaries Beyond the First Amendment: A Comment

in Urs Gasser, Jonathan Zittrain, Robert Faris & Rebekah H. Jones (eds.), Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World: Platforms, Policy, Privacy, and Public Discourse, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University 49 (2014), Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2014-17
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 21 Nov 2016
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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First Amendment, warrant canary, transparency, five eyes, national security, compelled speech, constitution

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Ethical Testing in the Real World: Evaluating Physical Testing of Adversarial Machine Learning

Workshop on Dataset Curation and Security // Workshop on Navigating the Broader Impacts of AI Research -- Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Feb 2021
Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, Jon Penney, Afsaneh Rigot and Ram Shankar Siva Kumar
Harvard Law School, Engineering Department, Swarthmore College, Osgoode Hall Law School, ARTICLE 19 and Microsoft Corporation
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Artificial Intelligence, AI, Machine Learning, ML Adversarial Machine Learning, Ethics, Physical Testing, Physical Domain, Methodology, ML attacks, FRT, Facial Recognition Technology, Invisibility, Algorithms, Research Ethics, Design, Security, Privacy, Human Rights

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Communications Disruption and Censorship under International Law: History Lessons

Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '12), August 6 2012
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Jun 2019
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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internet censorship, human rights, surveillance, telecommunications, international law, freedom of expression, privacy, telegraph, radio blocking

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Open Connectivity, Open Data: Two Dimensions of the Freedom to Seek, Receive and Impart Information in the New Zealand Bill of Rights

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (Working Paper Series #1), 2012, 4, p 1-60.
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 10 May 2018
Jon Penney
Osgoode Hall Law School
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open data, open government, internet rights, internet access, copyright, New Zealand, New Zealand Bill of Rights, right to seek receive and impact information, freedom of information