After several years of little movement, Industry Minister David Emerson focused on the broadband agenda during the fall, obtaining new funding for high-speed connectivity nationwide. While Emerson deserves kudos for focusing on this issue, developments elsewhere suggest that other jurisdictions are even more ambitious. Municipal wifi continues to attract attention […]
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LaForest Rejects Merger of Privacy and Information Commissioner Offices
Overshadowed by the launch of the election campaign this week was the public release of the LaForest report on the potential merger of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Information and Access Commissioner. Although these offices are merged in some provinces, it was […]
Staying on the Sidelines of the Sony Story
The Sony rootkit story continues to be remarkably resilient as new developments emerge a full month after the story first began circulating in the blogosphere. I covered developments up until about a week ago in a recent column. Three Business Week stories now shed additional light, raising several points that […]
Canada’s Privacy Wake-Up Call
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) focuses on the recent Maclean’s cover story in which a reporter obtained the personal phone records of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. I argue that in a year dominated by almost daily privacy and security violations that have placed the […]
Government Introduces Net Pharma Legislation
In another last minute move, the government on Friday introduced Bill C-83, a bill designed to address U.S. and big pharma pressure over the sale by Canadian Internet pharmacies of cheaper pharmaceutical products into the U.S. While the bill is obviously not going to become law, it does confirm the […]
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