Articles by: Michael Geist

The Lawful Access Spin

As expected, the government today unveiled Bill C-74, the Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act, better known as lawful access. Since I’ m Tunis, I’m relying on the various releases from PSEPC, the Ministry responsible for the bill. I’ll update this posting as needed once I’ ve had a chance to […]

November 15, 2005 — 17 comments — News

The Maclean’s Story

Given that the government will be introducing its lawful access bill today, there is something eerily appropriate about the timing of this week’ s Maclean’s cover story on the shocking privacy invasion of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart’ s phone and cellphone records. For those that have not seen the story […]

November 15, 2005 — 3 comments — News

Facing the Facts on Internet Governance

Having just arrived in Tunis for the WSIS, my weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) focuses on the Internet governance issues that are likely to dominate discussions all week. I argue that claims about a "digital Munich" and a U.N. takeover are not helpful to arriving […]

November 14, 2005 — 4 comments — Columns

Facing The Facts on Internet Governance

Appeared in the Toronto Star on November 14, 2005 as U.S. Must Share More Say on How Internet Is RunAppeared in the Ottawa Citizen on November 17, 2005 as A Change Is In Order This week the regulation of the Internet takes centre stage at the World Summit on the […]

November 14, 2005 — Comments are Disabled — Columns Archive

Sony’s Misleading “Apology”

Facing an onslaught of bad press, Sony today announced that it is suspending its use of the DRM technology that was quickly used by virus writers to infect personal computers. The Sony announcement is being described as an "apology" but the company isn't particularly apologetic. In fact, it prefaces its […]

November 11, 2005 — 3 comments — News