The RMCP in Hamilton have arrested four men for violating the Copyright Act by selling pirated DVDs.
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Privacy Commissioner Releases Guidelines for Processing Data Across Borders
In time for Data Privacy Day 2009, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released new Guidelines for Processing Data Across Borders. The guidelines provides background on leading PIPEDA decisions.
New Brunswick Court of Appeal Rules Fed Court Proper PIPEDA Forum
All About Information posts on a recent New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision that held that the Federal Court is the proper forum for a challenge to the powers of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada under PIPEDA.
Budget 2009 – Money for Broadband, Part Two
In the dying days of the fall election campaign, the Conservatives promised to spend $100 million per year for five years on broadband deployment in rural areas starting in 2010. While the budget moves that spending up a year, it commits less money – $75 million per year for three […]
Budget 2009 – Money for Broadband
The Department of Finance website is pitifully slow, but it appears that the government is committing $225 million over the next three years for broadband to unserved communities. By comparison, the Australian government has committed AU$4.7 billion to a similar initiative.