Articles by: Michael Geist

CBC’s Inventing the Internet Age

The CBC Archive launched an interesting new feature today titled Inventing the Internet Age.  The feature includes about 20 television and radio stories that trace the development of the Internet in the 1980s and early 1990s.  The television stories from the early 1990s are particularly interesting as they include Bill […]

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July 5, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

The Globe on Copyright

The Globe and Mail ran yet another copyright masthead editorial today, A Line on File Sharing (reg. required), which predictably supported the U.S. Supreme Court's Grokster decision.  Given its two other recent copyright editorials which virtually parroted the recording industry's position on copyright, it comes as little surprise to find […]

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July 4, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Policies Old and New

Just as Canada and the U.S. were gearing up for a holiday weekend, there was a flurry of noteworthy policy developments.  I expect that I will have more to say about each in the weeks ahead, so I only pause to comment briefly on each (in order of media coverage […]

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July 4, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

RSS Overload

Apologies to RSS feed subscribers who experienced feed overload this afternoon.  We were working to shift the new feed to old subscribers without necessitating a new url.  I’m told that we were successful, but not before subscribers received multiple versions of the same postings in their readers.  The problem should […]

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Canada Needs A National Privacy Breach Reporting Law

My latest Law Bytes column  (Canada Needs A National Privacy Breach Reporting Law  Toronto Star version, freely available hyperlinked version) makes the case for a national Canadian privacy and security breach reporting law. Over the past twelve months, there has been a staggering number of reported privacy and security breaches — with […]

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