Natasha Tusikov, an associate professor in the Department of Social Science, recently co-authored an article in Policy Options examining a proposed bill by Mark Carney to regulate social media.ÌýÌý
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Tusikov’s research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology and regulation. Before obtaining her PhD at the Australian National University, she was a strategic criminal intelligence analyst and researcher at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa. Her research interests include information technologies, crime, law and technology, private security industry, regulatory theory and criminology.
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