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Steve Saretsky

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The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

I think would be viewed as certainly it's a threat or a new kind of challenge for some of those people.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And so they're responding in a number of different ways.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

For sure.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

It's exceptionally difficult.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And that is, I think, a legit threat.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And I don't know that we've got great answers.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

I'm just coming off teaching an intensive course for students from several different universities.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And one of the things that we do as part of that course is group the students from different schools together to do presentations based on Black Mirror episodes from the Netflix show.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And in one instance, the students created a voice clone of my voice and created...

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

fake podcast, one of my Law Bites podcasts, using my voice about the episode, which, I mean, well, I knew it was AI because I knew I hadn't done it.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

But for the average person listening to the extent to which they sort of just kind of, you know, distractedly listening, you would completely think that this was real.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And so, you know, to me, that really crystallized some of these challenges that we're going to face over time in terms of identifying what's real and what isn't.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

Yeah, no, that's a great question.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

I get asked that a lot.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And I would say, especially in the context of decisions that are still in the process of being made, Bill C-22 that we were just talking about is a good example of that.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

Contacting your member of parliament really is the best way to deal with it.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

And it can be a bit of an exercise of frustration.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

You're right.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

You're not sure if anyone's paying attention.

The Loonie Hour
Canada's State Surveillance Bill - w/ guest Michael Geist

But I can tell you that having talked to many MPs,