Lisa M Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4492313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa M Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9644-9421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Establishing a Public Involvement Network for Chronic Pain Research in the United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION: The Consortium to Research Individual, Interpersonal and Social Influences in Pain (CRIISP) is a 4-year UK university collaboration investigating how thoughts and feelings, personal relationships and lifestyle can affect chronic pain. Patient and public involvement in research recognises that researchers' conceptions of health and illness can be enriched and sense-checked by those of people experiencing a health condition. Published…
Digital Power and Law’s Rule
Covid-19 and the Data Governance Gap
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many complexities involved in using data and advanced technologies to help resolve public health emergencies. These complexities highlight the need to embrace a broader framework of data governance with three foundational questions: ( a) who decides about data flows, ( b) on what basis, and ( c) with what accountability and oversight. These questions can accommodate the issues that have arisen in the literatu…
From Privacy to Social Legibility
This paper draws upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (1998) to argue that privacy law currently suffers from (at least) three defects: a focus on the legibility of individuals that is too narrow, a focus on collection and subsequent use of data that comes too late, and a focus on rights and harms that ignores the need to create new social structures that can empower more local forms of collective decision-making. What this outlines in broad br…
Automating accountability? Privacy policies, data transparency, and the third party problem
We have a data transparency problem. Currently, one of the main mechanisms we have to understand data flows is through the self-reporting that organizations provide through privacy policies. These suffer from many well-known problems, problems that are becoming more acute with the increasing complexity of the data ecosystem and the role of third parties – the affiliates, partners, processors, ad agencies, analytic services, and data brokers invol…
Data Trusts and the Governance of Smart Environments
Data trusts are an increasingly popular proposal for managing complex data governance questions, although what they are remains contested. Sidewalk Labs proposed creating an “Urban Data Trust” as part of the Sidewalk Toronto “smart” redevelopment of a portion of Toronto’s waterfront. This part of its proposal was rejected before Sidewalk Labs cancelled the project. This research note briefly places the Urban Data Trust within the general debate r…
Angela Fernandez, Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
Surveillance and the Rule of Law
Private Law and the Rule of Law
Pluralism, Context, and the Internal Life of Property
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Getting Past Privacy? Surveillance, the Charter, and the Rule of Law
A persistent critique in surveillance studies has been that privacy is a limited, legalistic, and highly individualized concept, ill-suited to address contemporary practices of surveillance. Recent Canadian Charter cases seem to confirm that critique, permitting police access to a wide range of information that many would argue is precisely the kind of information gathered through emerging forms of surveillance. However, this article suggests tha…
Control Yourself, or at Least Your Core Self
Contemporary privacy debates regarding new technologies often define privacy in terms of control over personal information such that the privacy “problem” is a lack of control and the privacy “solution” is increased control. This article questions the control-paradigm by pointing to its parallels with earlier debates in the philosophy of technology regarding technology that was out-of-control. What first-generation philosophers of technology unde…
Person, Place, or Thing? Property and the Structuring of Social Relations
In positing a relationship between property and personhood, Margaret Jane Radin introduced an influential critique of traditional property theory, including law and economics. In this essay I propose an alternative account of the ‘personhood’ intuition, focusing on real property. This account of personhood focuses on the objective features of individual capacities for direct social relations rather than on the subjective relationship between a pa…
Law & the Internet
The Limits of the Full Court Press
From Privacy to Social Legibility
This paper draws upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (1998) to argue that privacy law currently suffers from (at least) three defects: a focus on the legibility of individuals that is too narrow, a focus on collection and subsequent use of data that comes too late, and a focus on rights and harms that ignores the need to create new social structures that can empower more local forms of collective decision-making. What this outlines in broad br…
Surveillance and the Rule of Law
Data Trusts and the Governance of Smart Environments
Data trusts are an increasingly popular proposal for managing complex data governance questions, although what they are remains contested. Sidewalk Labs proposed creating an “Urban Data Trust” as part of the Sidewalk Toronto “smart” redevelopment of a portion of Toronto’s waterfront. This part of its proposal was rejected before Sidewalk Labs cancelled the project. This research note briefly places the Urban Data Trust within the general debate r…
Covid-19 and the Data Governance Gap
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many complexities involved in using data and advanced technologies to help resolve public health emergencies. These complexities highlight the need to embrace a broader framework of data governance with three foundational questions: ( a) who decides about data flows, ( b) on what basis, and ( c) with what accountability and oversight. These questions can accommodate the issues that have arisen in the literatu…
Getting Past Privacy? Surveillance, the Charter, and the Rule of Law
A persistent critique in surveillance studies has been that privacy is a limited, legalistic, and highly individualized concept, ill-suited to address contemporary practices of surveillance. Recent Canadian Charter cases seem to confirm that critique, permitting police access to a wide range of information that many would argue is precisely the kind of information gathered through emerging forms of surveillance. However, this article suggests tha…
The Limits of the Full Court Press
The Limits of the Full Court Press
Law & the Internet
Control Yourself, or at Least Your Core Self
Contemporary privacy debates regarding new technologies often define privacy in terms of control over personal information such that the privacy “problem” is a lack of control and the privacy “solution” is increased control. This article questions the control-paradigm by pointing to its parallels with earlier debates in the philosophy of technology regarding technology that was out-of-control. What first-generation philosophers of technology unde…
Person, Place, or Thing? Property and the Structuring of Social Relations
In positing a relationship between property and personhood, Margaret Jane Radin introduced an influential critique of traditional property theory, including law and economics. In this essay I propose an alternative account of the ‘personhood’ intuition, focusing on real property. This account of personhood focuses on the objective features of individual capacities for direct social relations rather than on the subjective relationship between a pa…
Getting Past Privacy? Surveillance, the Charter, and the Rule of Law
A persistent critique in surveillance studies has been that privacy is a limited, legalistic, and highly individualized concept, ill-suited to address contemporary practices of surveillance. Recent Canadian Charter cases seem to confirm that critique, permitting police access to a wide range of information that many would argue is precisely the kind of information gathered through emerging forms of surveillance. However, this article suggests tha…
Pluralism, Context, and the Internal Life of Property
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Surveillance and the Rule of Law
Private Law and the Rule of Law
Angela Fernandez, Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
Data Trusts and the Governance of Smart Environments
Data trusts are an increasingly popular proposal for managing complex data governance questions, although what they are remains contested. Sidewalk Labs proposed creating an “Urban Data Trust” as part of the Sidewalk Toronto “smart” redevelopment of a portion of Toronto’s waterfront. This part of its proposal was rejected before Sidewalk Labs cancelled the project. This research note briefly places the Urban Data Trust within the general debate r…
From Privacy to Social Legibility
This paper draws upon James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (1998) to argue that privacy law currently suffers from (at least) three defects: a focus on the legibility of individuals that is too narrow, a focus on collection and subsequent use of data that comes too late, and a focus on rights and harms that ignores the need to create new social structures that can empower more local forms of collective decision-making. What this outlines in broad br…
Automating accountability? Privacy policies, data transparency, and the third party problem
We have a data transparency problem. Currently, one of the main mechanisms we have to understand data flows is through the self-reporting that organizations provide through privacy policies. These suffer from many well-known problems, problems that are becoming more acute with the increasing complexity of the data ecosystem and the role of third parties – the affiliates, partners, processors, ad agencies, analytic services, and data brokers invol…
Covid-19 and the Data Governance Gap
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many complexities involved in using data and advanced technologies to help resolve public health emergencies. These complexities highlight the need to embrace a broader framework of data governance with three foundational questions: ( a) who decides about data flows, ( b) on what basis, and ( c) with what accountability and oversight. These questions can accommodate the issues that have arisen in the literatu…
Digital Power and Law’s Rule
Establishing a Public Involvement Network for Chronic Pain Research in the United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION: The Consortium to Research Individual, Interpersonal and Social Influences in Pain (CRIISP) is a 4-year UK university collaboration investigating how thoughts and feelings, personal relationships and lifestyle can affect chronic pain. Patient and public involvement in research recognises that researchers' conceptions of health and illness can be enriched and sense-checked by those of people experiencing a health condition. Published…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (4 works) · Accountability (3 works)