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Policies Old and New

Just as Canada and the U.S. were gearing up for a holiday weekend, there was a flurry of noteworthy policy developments.  I expect that I will have more to say about each in the weeks ahead, so I only pause to comment briefly on each (in order of media coverage […]

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July 4, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

RSS Overload

Apologies to RSS feed subscribers who experienced feed overload this afternoon.  We were working to shift the new feed to old subscribers without necessitating a new url.  I’m told that we were successful, but not before subscribers received multiple versions of the same postings in their readers.  The problem should […]

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July 4, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Canada Needs A National Privacy Breach Reporting Law

My latest Law Bytes column  (Canada Needs A National Privacy Breach Reporting Law  Toronto Star version, freely available hyperlinked version) makes the case for a national Canadian privacy and security breach reporting law. Over the past twelve months, there has been a staggering number of reported privacy and security breaches — with […]

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July 4, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

New Look, New Functionality

As will be obvious to anyone visiting the site (and not so obvious to anyone reading this in an RSS reader), MichaelGeist.ca has undergone a significant makeover.   In addition to the need for a refresh, there were two primary reasons for the change. 

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June 30, 2005 5 comments News

Reflecting on Grokster

The Toronto Star features a special edition of my Law Bytes column (HTML backup version, freely available hyperlinked version; Toronto Star reg. version) reflecting on Monday's Grokster decision. I argue that while the highest court in the U.S. unanimously ruled that two file sharing services, Grokster and Streamcast, can be sued for actively encouraging copyright infringement by their users, the decision is not the clear cut win its supporters suggest.

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June 29, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns