{"podcast":{"title":"Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) Podcast","slug":"centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001","podcast_index_feed_id":7112001,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/cipil-events/","website_url":"https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/306a401b-e4b8-4829-88cf-c2e63320e181/MyRqGB4_oKOt082p5LqWXc85.jpg","author":"Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge","episode_count":179,"summary":"The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law CIPIL was founded in 2004. Through its activities, CIPIL aims to promote the investigation, understanding and critical appraisal of these important fields of law. The CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar Series brings together specialist speakers to discuss prevailing issues in relation to copyright, patents, trademarks, design rights, and other subjects. The Centre brings together a group of legal academics already recognised for their historical and inter-disciplinary, as well as doctrinal, research. Drawing on the resources of Cambridge University, CIPIL is ideally positioned to carry out and promote well-informed interdisciplinary work. For more information see the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001"},"episode":{"title":"Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age: CIPIL/CPL Lunchtime Seminar","slug":"chilling-effects-repression-conformity-and-power-in-the-digital-age-cipil-cpl-lunchtime-seminar","published_at":"2026-02-04T13:55:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001/chilling-effects-repression-conformity-and-power-in-the-digital-age-cipil-cpl-lunchtime-seminar","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001","url":"https://cipil-events.captivate.fm/episode/chilling-effects-repression-conformity-and-power-in-the-digital-age-cipil-cpl-lunchtime-seminar","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e08ec365-1625-4c6b-8565-21e62cf06b4f.mp3","summary":"Speaker: Professor Jon Penney (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto) In this talk, Jon Penney explores key themes from his new book Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2025), which examines the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us. With corporations, governments, and extremists employing big data, artificial intelligence, FRT, cyber-mobs, and other technological threats to limit our rights and freedoms, concerns about chilling effects—or how these activities deter us from exercising our rights—have become urgent. Penney draws on law, privacy theory, and social science to present a new conformity theory that highlights the dangers of chilling effects and their potential to erode democracy and enable a more illiberal future. Following the book’s urgent and timely message, he sheds light on the repressive and conforming effects of technology, state, and corporate power and offers a roadmap of how to respond to their weaponization today and tomorrow. Biography: Jon Penney is a legal scholar and social scientist at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, where he is an Associate Professor and holds the York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Law. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. His award-winning research on privacy, technology, and human rights has received national and international attention, including coverage in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Reuters International, The Guardian, and Le Monde, among others, and has been profiled in WIRED and Harvard Mag…","meta_description":"Speaker: Professor Jon Penney (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto) In this talk, Jon Penney explores key themes from his new book Chilling…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2474,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001/episodes/chilling-effects-repression-conformity-and-power-in-the-digital-age-cipil-cpl-lunchtime-seminar/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/centre-for-intellectual-property-and-information-law-cipil-podcast-7112001/chilling-effects-repression-conformity-and-power-in-the-digital-age-cipil-cpl-lunchtime-seminar.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}