Subproject 15 - Security Issues Stemming from AI Tools

Start – 2019 | End – 2024 Duration – 5 years

Hacking tends to become an increasingly worrying threat as computer technology develops. The protection of the digital environment is therefore an essential condition for its development, which requires the creation of guaranteed cybersecurity conditions for judicial actors.

Subproject chief
Benoit Dupont

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Research activities

Case studies

Subproject 15 will carry out a survey and qualitative interviews of technology and justice practitioners to understand the cybersecurity challenges experienced in Canada with regard to the design, deployment and use of AI solutions in a cyberjustice context. This survey and the interviews will be conducted during the years 2 and 3 of the project and will rely on the main themes identified in the literature review as well as the practical experience of respondents.

Inventories

A literature review of the cybersecurity risks associated with the deployment of AI technologies by justice actors will be completed. This desktop data collection activity will be carried out during the years 2 and 3 of the project and will rely on the automated scanning of a large number of media and internet sources to understand what are the most prevalent cybersecurity challenges associated to the use of AI by justice actors and how these risks can be mitigated.

Best Practices Guide

Subproject 15’s research activities will result in a Best Practices Guide in the form of an industry report highlighting the best practices identified in the literature and the survey will be published and disseminated during year 4 of the project. It will be written in an accessible format enhancing the probability of uptake.

Publications of researchers

• Benoit DUPONT, "Covid-19: Les Dérives Possibles de Surveillance Des Données Personnelles" The Conversation, May 29, 2020.
• Benoit DUPONT, Yuan STEVENS, Hannes WESTERMANN, Michael JOYCE (dir.), "Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Crime and Criminal Justice" ,report, Korean Institute of Criminology, Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity, ICCC, Université de Montréal, (2018). PDF
• Nicolas VERMEYS,  Dahlia CHALATI. « La sécurité des actes notaries dématérialisés », (2019) La Revue du Notariat.
• Benoît DUPONT, « Enhancing the Effectiveness of Cybercrime Prevention through Policy Monitoring », (2019) No. 42-5, Journal of Crime and Justice, 500-515, DOI : 10.1080/0735648X.2019.1691855.
• Benoît DUPONT, « The Cyber-Resilience of Financial Institutions: Significance and Applicability », (2019) No. 5, Journal of Cybersecurity, DOI : 10.1093/cybsec/tyz013.
• Abdelatif HAFID, Abdelhakim SENHAJI HAFID, Mustapha SAMIH, « A Novel Methodology-Based Joint Hypergeometric Distribution to Analyze the Security of Sharded Blockchains », (2020) No. 8, IEEE Access, 179389, DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3027952.
• Abdelatif HAFID, Abdelhakim SENHAJI HAFID, Mustapha SAMIH, « New Mathematical Model to Analyze Security of Sharding-Based Blockchain Protocols », (2019) No. 7, IEEE Access, 185447, DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2961065.
• Abdelatif HAFID, Abdelhakim SENHAJI HAFID, Mustapha SAMIH, « Scaling Blockchains: A Comprehensive Survey », (2020) No. 8, IEEE Access, 125244, DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007251.
• Thomas J. HOLT, Benoît DUPONT, « Exploring the Factors Associated with Rejection from a Closed Cybercrime Community », (2019) No. 63-8, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1127-1147, DOI : 10.1177/0306624X18811101.
• Zakaria Abou El Houda, Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid, Lyes Khoukhi, « Cochain-SC: An Intra- and Inter-Domain DDoS Mitigation Scheme Based on Blockchain Using SDN and Smart Contract », (2019) No. 7, IEEE Access, 98893, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2930715.
• Benoît DUPONT, Layla JASIC, « La sécurité de l'IA », Centre de recherche en prévention de la cybercriminalité, avril 2024.

• Iria GIUFFRIDA, Fredric I. LEDERER, Nicolas VERMEYS, « A Legal Perspective on the Trials and Tribulations of AI, How Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Smart Contracts and Other Technologies Will Affect the Law », (2018) No. 68, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 747.

• Iria GIUFFRIDA and Taylor TREECE, « Keeping AI under Observation: Anticipated Impacts on Physicians’ Standard of Care », (2020) 22 Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property.

Presentations

• Nicolas VERMEYS, Benoit DUPONT, "Enjeux de la cybersécurité reliés à une pandémie", virtual program of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, June 25, 2020.
• Benoit DUPONT, "Les algorithmes du policing: intelligence artificielle et contrôle social" (2019).
• Benoit DUPONT,  "Intelligence artificielle, système pénal et travail policier" (2019).
• Nicolas VERMEYS, "Les incidences de l’intelligence artificielle sur la fonction judiciaire et les juges", Colloque de la magistrature, Montreal, November 4, 2019.
• Nicolas VERMEYS, "Faux documents, mystification et Hypertrucage : comment peut-on se fier à la preuve technologique ? ", Conférence annuelle de l'Institut canadien d'administration de la justice, Québec, 18 octobre 2019.
• Nicolas VERMEYS, Paul EMBLEY, Diana GRASKI, "Technology Update:AI, Machine Learning & Data Science", National Association for Court Management Annual Conference, Las Vegas, July 22, 2019.

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This content has been updated on 19 July 2024 at 14 h 41 min.