Archive for October, 2007

Privacy Threats No Longer ‘Terra Incognita’

Video regarding Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner’s conference and closing remarks.

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October 8, 2007 Comments are Disabled Video

Downloading and Demonoid

Yesterday's jury verdict in Minnesota is unsurprisingly generating an enormous amount of attention – a $220,000 damage award for sharing 24 songs will do that.  While Declan McCullagh and Ray Beckerman provide some good analysis about why and what next, it is worth noting that the Canadian context is very […]

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October 5, 2007 19 comments News

CRIA To Promote Copyright “Education” Plan

CNET is reporting that Canada is in for another attempt to "educate" children about copyright.  Despite the fact that both Captain Copyright and Fair-Share were recently shelved, CRIA is apparently anxious to work with provincial governments to develop copyright curriculum.  Moreover, CRIA's Graham Henderson plans to target parents with messages […]

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October 2, 2007 10 comments News

Justice Minister Announces Plans to Criminalize ID Theft

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has announced plans to criminalize identity theft. He said he would introduce legislation targeting the actual gathering and trafficking in credit card, banking and other personal data for the purposes of using it deceptively.

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October 2, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Building Confidence: Security, Privacy and User Empowerment

I prepared a a discussion paper for Industry Canada’s E-commerce Branch for the Canada Roundtable on the Future of the Internet Economy. The paper is titled Building Confidence: Security, Privacy and User Empowerment and is available for download.

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October 2, 2007 Comments are Disabled Reports