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The ISP Copyright Consultation Questions

Mediacaster posts the questions pertaining to ISPs that have been posed as part of the forthcoming copyright consultation. These include notice-and-takedown, ISP liability, and a making available right. The full consultation launches on Monday.

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July 17, 2009 Comments are Disabled News

Industry Canada Launches Crowdsource Initiative To Map Broadband Access

Industry Canada has launched a crowdsourcing initiative that encourages Canadians to post details on their Internet access in an effort to map accessibility in Canada.

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July 17, 2009 1 comment News

Privacy Commissioner Finds Facebook Violating Canadian Privacy Law

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released its long-awaited finding (media release, finding, backgrounder) in the complaint against Facebook on a variety of privacy grounds.  The complaint was launched by CIPPIC in May 2008 (note that I am an advisor to CIPPIC but had no involvement in […]

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July 16, 2009 16 comments News

National Post Podcast on Net Neutrality

I participated in debate with Bell's Jonathan Daniels on net neutrality for the National Post Full Comment podcast.

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July 16, 2009 1 comment News

Groups Call on U.S. Government To Drop Internet From ACTA

A coalition of leading library, civil rights, and technology companies have written to the U.S. government to urge it to drop the Internet provisions from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.  With talks set to resume this week, Jamie Love reports that Canada has produced another secret document, Japan has developed an […]

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July 16, 2009 Comments are Disabled News