My colleague Ian Kerr posts a great speech he recently delivered on the importance of privacy "idealism" in advocacy.
Wiertz Sebastien - Privacy by Sebastien Wiertz (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/ahk6nh
Privacy
Supreme Court of Canada Rejects Privacy Commissioner Blood Tribe Appeal
The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's appeal in the Blood Tribe case. The case raised questions of solicitor-client privilege in the context of PIPEDA investigations.
YouTube Ordered To Hand Over User Data
Many people have written about a U.S. decision ordering Google to disclose a massive amount of personal information about their users. Many U.S. experts expect the decision to be overturned on appeal.
CIRA’s Backdoor Access in New WHOIS Policy
My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, homepage version) revisits the disappointment with CIRA's implementation of its new whois policy. While dot-ca registrants across the country were being advised of the new policy last April, special interests representing law enforcement and trademark holders were quietly pressuring […]
CIRA Creates Backdoor to Domain Name Information
Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 30, 2008 as CIRA's 'whois' Policy a Stunning Setback for Privacy Two months ago, I wrote a glowing review of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority's new "whois" policy that was supposed to better protect the privacy of hundreds of thousands of Canadians. The […]
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