Suzie Dunn

Suzie Dunn is an assistant professor an Assistant Professor in Law & Technology at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Her research centres on the intersections of gender, equality, technology and the law, with a specific focus the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, deepfakes, and impersonation in digital spaces. She was instrumental in the development and adoption of two international commitments to end gender-based violence in digital contexts, including the G7’s “Charlevoix Commitment to End Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Abuse and Harassment in Digital Contexts” and the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s resolution titled “Accelerating Efforts to Eliminate Violence against Women and Girls: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in Digital Contexts”. In 2018, Dunn was a part of the legal team that supported CIPPIC’s intervention at the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Jarvis, which examined the concept of “reasonable expectation of privacy”.