Archive for April, 2012

European Parliament INTA Committee Draft ACTA Recommendation

The draft recommendation from the European Parliament INTA committee on ACTA has been posted online, confirming the committee “declines to consent to conclusion of the agreement.”

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April 17, 2012 Comments are Disabled News

The 2012 Olympics and Branding Police

The Guardian reports on the astonishing restrictions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which include “branding police” to ensure only licensed brands appear at Olympic venues.

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April 17, 2012 2 comments News

The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn’t

The NY Times features a story that provides a closer examination of cybercrime claims. It finds that “widely circulated cybercrime estimates are generated using absurdly bad statistical methods, making them wholly unreliable.”

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April 16, 2012 Comments are Disabled News

B.C. Privacy Commissioner Calls for Mandatory Data Breach Reporting

B.C. Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has called on the province to amend its privacy law by adding mandatory data breach reporting requirements. Her office investigated 500 privacy breach cases last year alone.

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April 16, 2012 Comments are Disabled News

Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government: A Review

David Eaves reviews the recently released Canadian government Action Plan on Open Government, which contains some notable commitments on open licensing and tinkering with access to information.

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April 16, 2012 Comments are Disabled News