Conservative Senator Leo Housakos this week raised the possibility of a hearing into Bell’s privacy practices in light of recent disclosures involving collection and use of data for targeted advertising purposes. Housakos gave notice of a motion for a hearing by the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications involving […]
Archive for December 6th, 2013
Competition Bureau of Canada Investigating ICANN and New gTLDs
John Pecman, the Commissioner of Competition, yesterday advised that the Competition Bureau of Canada is reviewing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and its administration of the domain name system. In a follow-up email, I was told that the Bureau is investigating ICANN “since they are poised to […]
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