Industry Minister Maxime Bernier, who has shown little appetite for the anti-spam legislation, now says that he is reviewing the 2005 Task Force Report on Spam (I was a member of the task force). Bernier says he "just" received the report – it was obviously part of his ministerial briefing […]
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Sony’s Rootkit Settlement Leaves Canadian Consumers Unsettled
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) picks up on last week's post examining the mounting concerns over the Sony rootkit class action settlement in Canada. The column touches on many of the same themes – less compensation, no security review, and no injunctive relief. I conclude […]
Sony Rootkit Settlement Leaves Canadian Consumers Unsettled
Appeared in the Toronto Star on September 18, 2006 as Rootkit Settlement Gives Canadians Short Shrift The Sony rootkit controversy generated enormous public attention last year after it was disclosed that the company inserted faulty copy-protection software onto dozens of CDs, rendering hundreds of thousands of personal computers vulnerable to […]
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