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- IRCC’s Most Introspective and Honest Look – IRCC’s Ombudsperson Office Feasibility Study (draft)
Back in February 2022, I testified in front of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration (“CIMM”) where I testified along with other witnesses around the need for an independent ombudsperson for IRCC. Nearly three years later, we finally receive our first glimpse behind the … Read more »
- CBSA Algorithmic Impact Assessment for Security Screening Automation (Draft)
Furthering our work in uncovering what the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”) is doing, I am sharing the draft Algorithmic Impact Assessment we have for their Security Screening Automation (“SSA”) project. Based on a recent information technology report (disclosing projects with a budget of more … Read more »
- Another Peer Review We’re Making Public: Privately Sponsored Refugee Automation
We have access to a new peer review thanks to the ATIP prowess of Andrew Koltun. This one is for the Automation Tools on Privately Sponsored Refugee Applications Automation Tools on Privately Sponsored Refugee Applications The Automation Tools on Privately Sponsored Refugee Appliations – Peer review … Read more »
- The DADM’s Noticeable Silence: Clarifying the Human Role in the Canadian Government’s Hybrid Decision-Making Systems [Law 432.D – Op-Ed 2]
This is part 2 of a two-part series sharing Op-Eds I wrote for my Law 432.D course titled “Accountable Computer Systems.” This blog will likely go up on the course website in the near future but as I am hoping to speak to and reference things I have written for a presentations coming up, I am sharin … Read more »
- Filling in Three Missing Peer Reviews for IRCC’s Algorithmic Impact Assessments
As a public service, and transparently because I need to also refer to these in my own work in the area, I am sharing three peer reviews that have not yet been published by Immigration, Refugess and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) nor made available on the published Algorithmic Impact Assessment (“AIA”) … Read more »