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One Phone Call is Not Enough: Court Rules You Have the Right to Google a Lawyer

Appeared in the Toronto Star on February 15, 2013 as You Have the Right to Google for a Lawyer Hollywood crime dramas are infamous for the scene when an accused is taken to a local police station and permitted a single phone call to contact a relative or lawyer. While […]

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February 18, 2013 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Google Faces Canadian Gmail Lawsuit Over Email Scanning

A B.C. man has filed a lawsuit against Google over the scanning of emails sent to Gmail users. Similar lawsuits have been filed in the U.S., though experts are skeptical about whether automated scanning amounts to a privacy violation.

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October 9, 2012 5 comments News

Google Transparency Project: Canadian Takedowns & User Data Requests

Google has posted updated data from its Transparency Report project. It reports that during the period from July – December 2010, there were seven Canadian court order to takedown content (all related to defamation claims) and 38 requests for disclosure of user data from Google accounts or services.

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June 28, 2011 1 comment News

“A Great Moment for the Free Flow of Information”

Google’s Public Policy Blog comments on the recent UN Report on freedom of expression and the Internet.

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June 22, 2011 Comments are Disabled News

British Library, Google Reach Deal on Public Domain Digitization

The British Library and Google have reached an agreement to digitize 250,000 public domain books that will be made freely available online.

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June 20, 2011 Comments are Disabled News