https://www.jamieduncan.ca/Professional website for Jamie Duncan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies 2023-11-20T19:56:01+00:00 Jamie Duncan https://www.jamieduncan.ca/ Jekyll © 2023 Jamie Duncan /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2023-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://www.jamieduncan.ca/posts/beyond-data-rights/ jamie_duncan

Duncan, J. (2023). “Data protection beyond data rights: governing data production through collective intermediaries.” Internet Policy Review, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.14763/2023.3.1722 “Considering calls for more collective approaches to governing data about people, this paper explores how such interventions have been envisioned and enacted by their proponents. I focus on four types of da...

2023-08-24T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-05T13:29:59+00:00 https://www.jamieduncan.ca/posts/archiving-atips/ jamie_duncan

Introduction Access to Information and Freedom of Information (ATI/FOI) requests are valuable sources of data for academic, journalistic, and advocacy purposes. The laws that entitle citizens (and in many cases non-citizens) to information about how governments and public institutions work are under-appreciated democratic safeguards. This blog post offers a step-by-step guide to the workflow I ...

2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 2023-10-16T21:08:59+00:00 https://www.jamieduncan.ca/posts/cleaning-legislation/ jamie_duncan

Introduction My last post used the example of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) to show how to scrape different versions of legislative texts. For my research, I went ahead and scraped the versions of core immigration legislation for several countries. Before I can continue analyzing how these laws have evolved over time, I still need to clean up the text data that I scrape...

2023-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 2023-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 https://www.jamieduncan.ca/posts/legislative-changes-scrape/ jamie_duncan

Introduction Laws change over time. Governments frequently amend legislation and it can be hard to keep track of what has changed and when. The current verison of a given law shows traces of these changes, for example by mentioning how certain sections of other legislation have been repealed or amended by it. But it’s often hard to figure out how the substance of what has changed about a given ...

2023-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 2023-06-05T19:31:07+00:00 https://www.jamieduncan.ca/posts/TTC-security-incidents-data/ jamie_duncan

Violence on public transit is attracting a lot of media attention in recent days. Toronto (where I live) is no exception. After seeing several sensational headlines and a stories relying on top-line statistics from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), I found myself wondering what the TTC’s data actually looks like. I submitted a Freedom of Information Request for it. I’m used to waiting a lon...