My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version, update: the BBC features an internationalized version) examines the controversy surrounding the Sony rootkit and its use of digital rights management. While in the short-term one of the world's best-known brands has suffered enormous damage, the longer-term implications are […]
Archive for November 20th, 2005
The Lasting Impact of Sony’s Rootkit
Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 21, 2005 as Sony Incident Wakeup Call For Regulators Appeared on the BBC Online on November 21, 2005 as Sony’s Long-Term Rootkit Woes Sony BMG, the world’ s second largest record label, has for the past three weeks been the subject of a […]
Canada’s Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List Goes From Bad to Worse
Members of Parliament spent more than two hours on Wednesday debating Bill C-37, Canada' s proposed do-not-hesitate-to-call list. The debate makes for a depressing read – Canada' s elected officials each trip over themselves in self-congratulation as they render the list ever more useless. For those new to the issue, […]
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Denies PATRIOT Act Complaints
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has just released a much-anticipated finding arising from complaints over the potential disclosure of personal information to U.S. law enforcement authorities. The complaints were launched after the CIBC changed its credit card user agreement to acknowledge that customer information could be disclosed to the U.S. authorities […]
Mossberg on TPMs
Earlier this year I wrote a column on technological protection measures, arguing that we should be thinking about protection from TPMs, rather than protection for TPMs. That view is echoed by several other professors in the In the Public Interest book, but has led to the responses from Graham Henderson […]
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