Yuan Stevens presents to the DDI

Markets, Architectures, Norms, or Law? Regulating Automated Face Recognition in Canada

Yuan (“You-anne”) Stevens is a legal and policy expert focused on information integrity, data protection and human rights. She works towards a world where powerful actors—and the systems they build—are held accountable to the public, especially when it comes to equality-seeking communities. She brings years of international experience to her work, having examined the impacts of technology on marginalized populations in Canada, the US, and Germany. Yuan is a collaborator at the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University and research fellow at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at uOttawa. She previously worked at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society during her studies in joint degree in civil and common law at McGill University.