Copyright proposal upsets the balance In hindsight, the fall of 1998 may be remembered as the shining hour of Canadian Internet policy development. Led by then-Industry Minister John Manley, Canada played host to an OECD ministerial meeting on e-commerce, tabled new privacy legislation, unveiled several e-commerce policy initiatives, and committed […]
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West urged to share Internet governance
Last December, thousands of politicians and technology experts converged on Geneva for the first of two World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS). Several years in the making, the WSIS was envisioned as a new forum for the digital age. Instead, it primarily provided a showcase for developing-country concerns over […]
A recipe for battling spam in Canada
Existing laws and regulations could do the job – if they were enforced Over the past ten years, spam has grown from a minor annoyance to a global concern, threatening the reliability of electronic communication and the adoption of electronic commerce. Despite developing anti-spam technological tools, promoting greater consumer awareness, […]
Weak enforcement undermines privacy laws
At a recent meeting of Canadian privacy professionals, the United States’ approach to privacy was derisively characterized as amounting to little more than a privacy policy placebo, a reference to the reliance on privacy policies under the U.S. system. The comment reflects the perspective of many in the privacy community […]
Low-tech case has high-tech impact
While the public's attention has been focused this month on the Canadian Recording Industry Association's lawsuit against 29 unnamed file sharers and the related issue of whether Internet service providers should be compelled to disclose the file sharers' identities, Canadian copyright law was hit recently with a decision of far […]
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