Valerie Steeves

Full Professor · University of Ottawa

Department of Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences · Ottawa, Ontario

Steeves studies how digital technologies affect human rights. Her research examines young people’s privacy and equality in commercial online environments.

Technology and human rights; young people, privacy and online commercial profiling.

PUBLICATIONS // 8

Privacy, Consent, and Confidentiality in Social Media Research · The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2022) · Book chapter
Data protection and children’s online privacy · Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law: Values, Norms and Global Politics (2022) · Book chapter
AI and Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse · Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (2021) · Book chapter
Why Facebook and other social media companies need to be reined in (2021) · Publication
Framing the Challenges of Digital Inclusion for Young Canadians · Citizenship in a Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda (2020) · Book chapter
Children’s privacy is at risk with rapid shifts to online schooling under coronavirus · The Conversation (2020) · Professional writing
AI technologies - like police facial recognition - discriminate against people of colour · Royal Society of Canada Infoveillance (2020) · Professional writing
A dialogic analysis of Hello Barbie’s conversations with children · Big Data & Society (2020) · Journal article