Professor Geist has been named the 2003 Canarie IWAY Public Leadership Award winner at a ceremony in Toronto. The award goes to advocates of the development of Canada’s information and advanced Internet society. The Award recipient must demonstrate outstanding leadership with respect to public good, interest and service. Recent winners […]
Archive for September, 2003
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Issues Annual Report
Canada’s Interim Federal Privacy Commissioner has released his office’s 2002-03 annual report. The report highlights the Office’s activities under both private sector and public sector privacy legislation. see: 2002-03 Annual Report also see: Knight v. Hutchinson decision here
The Day Internet Governance Mattered
Professor Geist’s regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) examines the controversy over VeriSign’s Site Finder service. The column argues that there has been a general lack of enthusiasm for Internet governance issues but when it finally mattered – the moment VeriSign hit […]
Verisign’s tampering shows high cost of apathy
Internet governance is an issue that relatively few people care much about. For the vast majority of Internet users, the technical and policy details that underlie the Internet matter little so long as their e-mail goes to the correct address and their domain name resolves correctly so that their Web […]
Canadians OK To File Swap
Canadians OK To File Swap , CBC
Recent Posts
Debating the Online Harms Act: Insights from Two Recent Panels on Bill C-63 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Act 
AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questions 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision in the Online Harms Act 
Tweets Are Not Enough: Why Combatting Relentless Antisemitism in Canada Requires Real Leadership and Action
