In this episode, Matt Malone, joins us to talk about the Access to Information regime in Canada and its many challenges, as well as his effort in collaboration with the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) to mitigate them. Matt Malone is an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University’s Faculty of Law and one of Canada’s leading experts in trade secrets, access to information, privacy, and cyber security.

With the technical support of the IJF, Matt founded Open by Default, a platform that automatically categorizes and hosts all freedom of information requests submitted to the government platform. Matt is also a frequent contributor to Canadian media outlets, and can be found discussing Canadian government and policy, Artificial Intelligence, and cyber security. Outside of his popular articles, Matt is a seasoned academic contributor and author.

For a more complete list of Matt’s work, please see the links here.

Hosted by Robert Diab

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