The Globe and Mail ran yet another copyright masthead editorial today, A Line on File Sharing (reg. required), which predictably supported the U.S. Supreme Court's Grokster decision. Given its two other recent copyright editorials which virtually parroted the recording industry's position on copyright, it comes as little surprise to find […]
Archive for July, 2005
Policies Old and New
Just as Canada and the U.S. were gearing up for a holiday weekend, there was a flurry of noteworthy policy developments. I expect that I will have more to say about each in the weeks ahead, so I only pause to comment briefly on each (in order of media coverage […]
RSS Overload
Apologies to RSS feed subscribers who experienced feed overload this afternoon. We were working to shift the new feed to old subscribers without necessitating a new url. I’m told that we were successful, but not before subscribers received multiple versions of the same postings in their readers. The problem should […]
Canada Needs A National Privacy Breach Reporting Law
My latest Law Bytes column (Canada Needs A National Privacy Breach Reporting Law Toronto Star version, freely available hyperlinked version) makes the case for a national Canadian privacy and security breach reporting law. Over the past twelve months, there has been a staggering number of reported privacy and security breaches — with […]
Canada lags on privacy breach disclosure
At one time, public disclosures of privacy and security breaches were a rare occurrence. Companies were careful to keep such breaches quiet, content to compensate breach victims rather than face the inevitable negative publicity. No longer. Over the past 12 months, there has been a staggering number of reported privacy […]