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Andrea Slane
PhD

Professor

Graduate Program Director, Master of Arts in Social Practice and Innovation

Legal Studies
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Dr. Slane's research focuses on privacy, data protection, and the variety of legal regimes that protect people from both individual and commercial wrongdoing online, over digital devices and smart technologies.

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andrea.slane@ontariotechu.ca
905.721.8668 ext. 2844

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Areas of expertise


  • JD University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
  • PhD, Comparative Literature (Cultural Studies) University of California, USA
  • Lisa M. Austin and Andrea Slane, “Digitally Rethinking Hunter v Southam” (2023) 60.2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 419-447, https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/iss2/5/
  • Jessica Ringrose, Betsy Milne, Faye Mishna, Kaitlyn Regehr, and Andrea Slane, “Young People’s Experiences of Image-Based Sexual Harassment and Abuse in England and Canada: Towards a feminist framing of digital sexual violence” (2022) 93 Women’s Studies International Forum 102615, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2022.102615.
  • Dallas Hill, Christopher O’Connor, and Andrea Slane, “Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology: The Potential for Engaging the Public through Co-Constructed Policy-Making” (2022) 24:3 International Journal of Police Science and Management, 325-335, https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557221089558.
  • Faye Mishna, Betsy Milne, Charlene Cook, Andrea Slane and Jessica Ringrose, “Unsolicited Sexts and Unwanted Requests for Sexts: Reflecting on the Online Sexual Harassment of Youth” (2021) 55:4 Youth & Society, 630-651 https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X211058226.
  • Andrea Slane, “Privacy Protective Roadblocks and Speedbumps Restraining Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Software in Canada” (2021) 69:2 Criminal Law Quarterly 216-236. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4275241
  • Andrea Slane, Jennifer Martin, and Jonah Rimer. “Views and Attitudes About Youth Self-Produced Sexual Images Among Professionals with Expertise in Child Sexual Abuse” (2021) 30:2 Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 207-229, https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2021.1875095.
  • Andrea Slane, “There Is a There There: Forum Selection Clauses, Consumer Protection and the Quasi-Constitutional Right to Privacy in Douez v Facebook” (2019) 88 Supreme Court Law Review 87-104.
  • Andrea Slane, Jennifer Martin, Jonah Rimer, Angela Eke, Roberta Sinclair, Grant Charles, and Ethel Quayle. “Professionals’ Perspectives on Viewing Child Sexual Abuse Images to Improve Response to Victims” (2018) 55:4 Canadian Review of Sociology 579-596.
  • Andrea Slane, “Search Engines and the Right to Be Forgotten: Squaring the Remedy with Canadian Values on Personal Information Flow” (2018) 55:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 349-397.
  • Andrea Slane, “Information Brokers, Fairness, and Privacy in Publicly Accessible Information”, (2018) 4:1 Canadian Journal of Contemporary and Comparative Law 249-292.
  • Andrea Slane and Ganaele Langlois, “Debunking the Myth of “Not My Bad”: Sexual Images, Consent and Online Host Responsibilities in Canada” (2018) 30:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 42-81.
  • Ganaele Langlois and Andrea Slane, “Economies of Reputation: The Case of Revenge Porn” (2017) 14:2 Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 120-138.
  • Andrea Slane, “Legal Conceptions of Harm Related to Sexual Images Online in the United States and Canada”, (2015) 36:4 Child and Youth Services.
  • Andrea Slane, “Motion to Dismiss: Bias Crime, Online Communication, and the Sex Lives of Others", in NJ v. Ravi, Valerie Steeves and Jane Bailey, eds. eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy Into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices. (University of Ottawa Press, 2015): 253-280.
  • Andrea Slane, "The Story of My Life: Fiction, Ethics and the Self at Law", in B. Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau, Teresa Scassa and Madeline Saginur eds., Intellectual Property for the 21st Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014) 387-404.
  • Andrea Slane, “Sexting and the Law in Canada”, (2013) 22:3 The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 117-122.
  • Andrea Slane, “Luring Lolita: The Age of Consent and the Burden of Responsibility for Online Luring”, (2011) 1:4 Global Studies in Childhood 354-364.
  • Andrea Slane, “Guarding a Cultural Icon: Concurrent Intellectual Property Regimes and the Perpetual Protection of Anne of Green Gables in Canada”, (2011) 56:4 McGill Law Journal 1011-1055.
  • Andrea Slane, “From Scanning to Sexting: The Scope of Protection of Dignity-based Privacy in Canadian Child Pornography Law”, (2010) 48 Osgoode Hall Law Journal: 543-593.

 

  • Information and Privacy Law (LGLS 2500U)
    Information and privacy law examines two intersecting yet separate areas of law: privacy law and information law. The privacy law portion of the course will consider the privacy rights protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, public and private sector legislation such as the Privacy Act and the Protection of Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and the development of other causes of action addressing invasion of privacy by individuals. The information law portion will address the principles of open government and open justice, along with analysis of access to information legislation. The interplay between the two areas of law will be a persistent theme throughout the course.
  • Law and Technology (LGLS 3520U)
    New technologies engage the law in at least three ways: they may become the object of regulation; they may affect the application of the law to human interactions; and they may affect the procedural elements of the law (such as evidence law). The course will examine the ways that both historical and recent technological inventions engage and are engaged by the law.
  • Communication Law and Policy (LGLS 4010U)
    The course will address a range of topics governing communication in Canada and internationally, regarding the broadcasting, information and telecommunications industries, as well as how rules and policies designed for industries apply to individuals. The course content may include how broadcasting and communication policy is made, national ownership rules, program content and quality regulation, access to the media, and how each of these topics are affected by digital broadcasting and publication venues. Further topics may include freedom of expression, access to information rights, defamation law, personality rights, and whether there is a right to protect confidential sources, and how these areas of law affect the work of journalists and other newsgatherers and publishers. The course may also consider the legal and policy issues affecting producers and consumers of digital media, addressing topics such as network neutrality, broadband policy, surveillance, online reputation management and intellectual property rights.