Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on March 27, 2007 as Liberals Try to Resuscitate Big Brother Plan for the Internet As Canada's political parties gear up for a possible spring election, political commentators have noted a surprising role reversal, with the Conservatives launching a series of new spending initiatives in […]
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Liberal MP Reintroduces Lawful Access as Private Members Bill
As Liberal leader Stephane Dion promised earlier this month, Liberal MP Marlene Jennings on Friday reintroduced lawful access legislation. The Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act (MITA) is now Bill C-416, bringing back the controversial provisions last introduced in the fall of 2005 that include the installation of new surveillance capabilities […]
Whois Policy Reform Advances
The Associated Press reports this week on ICANN developments involving the Whois reform. The Whois database, which displays domain name registrant information including names, addresses, phone numbers, postal and email addresses, has been the subject of years of debate within ICANN as many in the Internet community have expressed concerns […]
Canada.com and Email Privacy, Updated
Last week I posted about Canada.com's email privacy FAQ that claimed that PIPEDA no longer applied once data was sent to the U.S. Canada.com has now updated its FAQ and removed the references to PIPEDA and teh suggestion that the Canada.com privacy policy no longer applies.
Canada.com and Email Privacy
Several people have written over the past couple of weeks to call attention to the privacy implications of the Canada.com FAQ. The FAQ asks the question about where Canada.com email account information will be stored with the answer that:
canada.com e-mail (the "Service") is provided by Velocity Services, Inc. ("VSI"), a company located in and conducting its business from the United States. By registering for and/or logging on to the Service, you accept and acknowledge that the information processed or stored outside of Canada may be available to the foreign government of the country in which the information or the entity controlling it, is situated under a lawful order made in that jurisdiction and no longer falls under the jurisdiction of Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") nor be subject to canada.com's Privacy Statement.
As David Fraser rightly notes "I'm pretty confident that you can't wave a magic wand and say that PIPEDA no longer applies."
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