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Globe on Fight To Water Down Anti-Spam Bill

The Globe covers the attempts to water down C-27, the anti-spam bill. It notes that Amazon would like a 5 to 7 year exception to allow it to imply consent from customers for further commercial messages.

October 7, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — News

CIRA And The Disappearing Public Interest Mandate

Rick Anderson, a long-time CIRA director, appears this week on TVO's Search Engine to respond to recent criticisms of the dot-ca domain authority. Host Jesse Brown asked Anderson to address my recent column focused on CIRA's disappointing performance in the realm of its social mandate. Anderson responded: "Doing things beyond […]

October 7, 2009 — 4 comments — News

Clement Says No Legal Block To Using Apple iTunes Gift Cards For Apps

In recent months there have been several reports on consumer frustrations with Applei iTunes gift cards, which in Canada cannot be used for applications or games. Apple's response has been that there are legal reasons for the restrictions. I've never been able to figure out what those might be and […]

October 7, 2009 — 15 comments — News

Privacy Commissioner Releases Annual PIPEDA Report

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada released her annual report on private sector privacy yesterday. While the media focused on the recommendations on youth privacy, it was interesting to see data showing increasing numbers of reported data breaches. Reported incidents moved from 23 in 2006, to 48 in 2007, to 65 […]

October 7, 2009 — 1 comment — News

Tracking the Dramatic Growth of Open Access

Heather Morrison tracks the latest growth statistics of open access, including more than 4,000 fully open access peer reviewed journals in DOAJ, 1,500 open access repositories, 30 million scientific publications free online, and 20 percent of the world's medical literature freely available two years after publication.

October 1, 2009 — Comments are Disabled — News