Four years after the National Task Force on Spam unanimously recommended that the Canadian government introduce anti-spam legislation, the Government today took an important step forward by tabling Bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (bill not online yet). Although the bill requires careful study before commenting in any detail, […]
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York University has joined the Internet Archive to help scan thousands of public domain books.
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The BBC runs an updated version of one of my recent pieces on ACTA.
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