Archive for July 16th, 2009

Privacy Commissioner Finds Facebook Violating Canadian Privacy Law

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released its long-awaited finding (media release, finding, backgrounder) in the complaint against Facebook on a variety of privacy grounds.  The complaint was launched by CIPPIC in May 2008 (note that I am an advisor to CIPPIC but had no involvement in […]

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July 16, 2009 16 comments News

National Post Podcast on Net Neutrality

I participated in debate with Bell's Jonathan Daniels on net neutrality for the National Post Full Comment podcast.

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July 16, 2009 1 comment News

Groups Call on U.S. Government To Drop Internet From ACTA

A coalition of leading library, civil rights, and technology companies have written to the U.S. government to urge it to drop the Internet provisions from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.  With talks set to resume this week, Jamie Love reports that Canada has produced another secret document, Japan has developed an […]

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July 16, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

No Place for State in our Hard Drives?

Just ahead of the copyright consultation, Kris Kotarski writes an op-ed for the Calgary Herald focusing on intrusive copyright laws.

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July 16, 2009 Comments are Disabled News