Archive for January, 2008

Canadian Bar Association Hit By Security Breach

The Canadian Bar Association has been hit by a security breach.  The CBA has advised affected members that: Your records may have been affected by this unauthorized activity. The files contained personal information relating to online orders (name, address, phone, fax, member number) and encrypted credit card information. We have […]

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January 10, 2008 1 comment News

Social Media and Data Portability

Last summer, I wrote a column calling for greater interoperability among social networking sites, thereby enabling users to better control their personal information.  Developments yesterday marked an important step in that direction.  It started with an exceptionally important guest post by Ottawa's own Alec Saunders on Gigaom.  Alec set out […]

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January 8, 2008 1 comment News

UK Issues Public Consultation on More Flexible Copyright

As the battle over Canada's private copying levy intensifies – London Drugs and the Retail Council Canada are following up on yesterday's Best Buy op-ed by urging customers to write to the government – the United Kingdom has just provided Industry Minister Jim Prentice with a terrific example of how […]

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January 8, 2008 Comments are Disabled Stop CDMCA

UK Issues Public Consultation on More Flexible Copyright

As the battle over Canada's private copying levy intensifies – London Drugs and the Retail Council Canada are following up on yesterday's Best Buy op-ed by urging customers to write to the government – the United Kingdom has just provided Industry Minister Jim Prentice with a terrific example of how […]

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January 8, 2008 8 comments News

Eight Tech Law Issues To Watch in 2008

Predicting the future of Canadian technology law is challenging at the best of times, but with upcoming national elections in the United States and possibly Canada, prognostications for the next twelve months are admittedly likely to be about as accurate as a coin flip. With that caveat in mind, my weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) returns by offering up eight issues to watch in 2008.

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January 8, 2008 Comments are Disabled Neutrality