Jonathon Penney

Associate Professor; York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Law · York University

Osgoode Hall Law School · Toronto, Ontario

Technology law, surveillance, cybersecurity, AI, human rights and computational legal studies. Official profile explicitly establishes sustained AI, surveillance and legal governance research. Oxford doctorate is interdisciplinary, not described as a law degree.

Technology law, privacy and surveillance, cybersecurity, AI and machine learning, online abuse, disinformation and computational legal studies.

PUBLICATIONS // 20

AI Innovation, Safety, and Regulation in Canada: Perspectives from the Editorial Committee · Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques (2026) · Journal article
Science and Causality in Technology Litigation · Journal of Online Trust and Safety (2025) · Journal article
Platforms, Privacy, and Power: Examining Predictors of Online Intimate Information Disclosure and Expression · Communication Law and Policy (2025) · Journal article
CHAPTER 4 Developing Human-Centric Informational Security · The Security of Self (2025) · Book chapter
The Expressive Power of Protecting Intimate Privacy: A Comparative Study of Legal and Platform Measures · Case Western Reserve Law Review (2025) · Journal article
Designing a Privacy-Protective Period Tracking Application Post-Dobbs · SSRN Electronic Journal (2024) · Preprint or working paper
Moving from secrecy to transparency in the offensive cyber capabilities sector: The case of dual-use technologies exports · Computer Law & Security Review (2023) · Journal article
Understanding Chilling Effects · Minnesota Law Review (2022) · Journal article
Canadian privacy law and the post-war freedom of information paradigm · Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law (2022) · Book chapter
Cybersecurity, Human Rights, and Empiricism · The Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security (2021) · Book chapter
Platforms, Encryption, and the CFAA: The Case of WhatsApp v. NSO Group · Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2021) · Journal article
Privacy and the New Virtualism (2021) · Book
Online Abuse, Chilling Effects, and Human Rights · Citizenship in a Connected Canada (2020) · Book chapter
Measuring surveillance chill and other regulatory impacts at scale · Computational Legal Studies (2020) · Book chapter
Legal Risks of Adversarial Machine Learning Research (2020) · Conference paper
Do Automated Legal Threats Reduce Freedom of Expression Online? Preliminary Results from a Natural Experiment (2020) · Preprint or working paper
Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning · ICLR 2020, Towards Trustworthy ML workshop (2020) · Conference paper
Ethical Testing in the Real World: Evaluating Physical Testing of Adversarial Machine Learning · NeurIPS 2020, Navigating the Broader Impacts of AI Research workshop (2020) · Conference paper
Commentary: Children and Cyberwar: Victimization through Protection? · Allons-y Journal of Children Peace and Security (2020) · Publication
CHAPTER 11 Online Abuse, Chilling Effects, and Human Rights · Citizenship in a Connected Canada (2020) · Book chapter