CBC's Marketplace features an eye-opening investigation into the misleading ISP claims about consumer broadband services.
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Canada’s Identity Theft Bill: What It Says and What’s Missing
The federal government yesterday introduced much-needed identity theft legislation. Bill C-27 includes several important provisions focusing on identity theft such as trafficking in documents and identity information. Key provisions include: making, possessing, transferring, or selling "identity documents" of another person becomes an offence punishable with up to five years in […]
UN Economist Weighs In On Industry Canada P2P Study
Zeljka Kozul-Wright, an economist focused on the creative industries with UNCTAD, has posted personal comments on the recent Industry Canada P2P study. Kozul-Wright notes that: To hold file sharing uniquely responsible for the decline in record sales i.e., largely unauthorized downloading, is basically erroneous and far too simplistic. Moreover, such […]
The Data Game
The CBC's The National featured a lengthy story by Keith Boag this evening on the collection and use of personal information by Canada's political parties. I was interviewed for the story, which highlights the use of detailed databanks with virtually no legal oversight. The story appears about midway through the […]
German Public Broadcaster Adopts CC License
The Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), a public radio and television broadcaster belonging to Germany’s national broadcasting consortium ARD, has announced that it will begin to use creative commons licenses for some of their programs.
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