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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 […]

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November 27, 2005 2 comments Columns

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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November 27, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Canadian Do-Not-Call Legislation Receives Royal Assent

Bill C-37, the do-not-call bill, is now law in Canada.  Much to seemingly everyone' s surprise, the Senate put the bill on the fast track last week and granted it the necessary approvals.  Supreme Court Justice Michel Bastarache gave it royal assent late on Friday, minutes before the Senate adjourned.  […]

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November 27, 2005 2 comments News

The National Post on DRM

The National Post runs a brief masthead editorial today on the Sony debacle and the recording industry's use of digital rights management.  The editorial is further evidence that this story remains in the public eye nearly four weeks after it first broke.  The key quote (unfortunately the full editorial is […]

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November 25, 2005 5 comments News

The Notice and Takedown Effect

Although Bill C-60 isn' t going anywhere given the current Parliamentary situation, digital copyright reform will be back once the dust settles.  When it does, the proposed notice and notice system will undoubtedly come under attack, with groups such as CRIA arguing that a DMCA notice-and-takedown system (or even a […]

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November 23, 2005 Comments are Disabled News