Archive for April, 2005

The Three Stages of Canadian Privacy Law

My regular Law Bytes column (non-reg. hyperlinked version or Toronto Star version, homepage version) examines the development of Canadian privacy law, arguing that it is unfolding in three stages. The first stage focused on self-regulatory initiatives such as the CSA Model Code. When few companies were willing to bind themselves to the Code, Canada embarked on stage two by establishing national privacy legislation that emphasizes mediation and light regulation.

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April 11, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns
Piercing the P2P Myths

Piercing the P2P Myths

Regular readers of my columns that appear in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen will know that I featured a two-part series on the music industry late last year. I’ve updated those articles into a single work that has just been posted on First Monday, a peer-reviewed online journal

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April 10, 2005 Comments are Disabled Uncategorized

The Three Stages of Canadian Privacy Law

Last year the British Columbia government announced plans to outsource the management of its health care system’s personal data to a private sector company based in the United States. The plan sparked a remarkable chain of events – the affected union raised concerns that the data could be accessed by […]

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April 10, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Piercing the P2P Myths

Regular readers of my columns that appear in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen will know that I featured a two-part series on the music industry late last year. I've updated those articles into a single work that has just been posted on First Monday, a peer-reviewed online journal. Piercing […]

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April 10, 2005 Comments are Disabled Uncategorized

Canadian Copyright Petition Presented to Parliament

Yesterday Peter Julian, an MP from Burnaby, BC, presented to the House of Commons the first of what is likely to be several petitions calling for a balanced copyright approach in Canada.

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April 8, 2005 Comments are Disabled News