The government continues to drag its feet on bringing forward anti-spam regulations – Canada’s anti-spam law received royal assent in 2010 but won’t take effect until 2013 at the earliest – but the CRTC seems determined to move things forward. Yesterday it released two information bulletins that provide guidelines on […]
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Ibbitson on the End of Bill C-30
The Globe’s John Ibbitson has a column on Bill C-30, the lawful access/Internet surveillance bill, that he says dying a quiet death.
The Dramatic Growth of Open Access
Heather Morrison posts an update of her ongoing series on the dramatic growth of open access, pointing to the development of open access infrastructure (institutional repositories), a massive increase in the number of journals offering free access, and the million movies now available at the Internet Archive.
ACTA: The Ethical Analysis of a Failure and Its Lessons
Luciano Floridi, the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire, has written a helpful analysis of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and its failure.
Canada Officially Joins Trans Pacific Partnership Talks
After months of delays, Canada (and Mexico) have officially joined the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations. The next round of talks is scheduled to take place in New Zealand in December.
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