The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released a letter she wrote in response in concerns about Bill C-61. Commissioner Stoddart expresses clear concern about the anti-circumvention provisions, noting that:
the amendments would allow companies to use digital rights management (DRM) software on media sold to Canadian consumers. These tools have been used in the past to collect personal information without users' knowledge or consent. DRM software has also been shown to create other security problems. These practices largely ignore the principles found in Canada’s private-sector privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. As a result, I have asked the Ministers who oversee the copyright file to consider the privacy implications of any new law.
I highlighted this in my C61 video I am amazed its only getting attention now.
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I am glad to see someone was looking out for these implications of DRM. Cheers to the privacy commissioner
Hurray , finally a word from privacy commissioner, and truth yet, amazing 😀
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most likely reason for your video not being seen as much is one word “bill” .. you seem to have left it out in title.
very good video though 😉