The Department of Justice’s subpoena of Google search data generated considerable attention last month with a judge ultimately ordering disclosure of only a fraction of what the U.S. government initally demanded. At the time, the coverage noted that Google was not the only target with similar requests to AOL, Microsoft, […]
Archive for March, 2006
Hart House Lecture Tonight
I am very excited to be delivering the annual Hart House lecture tonight. While the lecture has sold out, there will be a live webcast along with a future podcast and television broadcast.
Billboard on Pollara Data
Billboard Magazine weighs in on the CRIA/Pollara data with an article (paywall) this week. After noting my posting and Pollara's response, it concludes that "it does appear that apathy, according to Pollara respondents, and not downloading, might be the Canadian biz's biggest enemy."
Australia Leads, Canada Dithers in Spam Fight
While Canada dithers in dealing with spam, Australia continues to lead. Australia has taken an aggressive anti-spam approach and has been rewarded by dropping from the ranks of the country’s most responsible for spam. Canadian governments have done little to deal with the issue and we consistently find ourselves ranked […]
Berners-Lee on Net Neutrality
Tyler Hamilton of the Toronto Star has an interview with Tim Berners-Lee in which the WWW founder expresses concern about a two-tier Internet.