Overshadowed by the launch of the election campaign this week was the public release of the LaForest report on the potential merger of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Information and Access Commissioner. Although these offices are merged in some provinces, it was […]
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Staying on the Sidelines of the Sony Story
The Sony rootkit story continues to be remarkably resilient as new developments emerge a full month after the story first began circulating in the blogosphere. I covered developments up until about a week ago in a recent column. Three Business Week stories now shed additional light, raising several points that […]
Canada’s Privacy Wake-Up Call
My weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, freely available version) focuses on the recent Maclean’s cover story in which a reporter obtained the personal phone records of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart. I argue that in a year dominated by almost daily privacy and security violations that have placed the […]
Canadian Do-Not-Call Legislation Receives Royal Assent
Bill C-37, the do-not-call bill, is now law in Canada. Much to seemingly everyone' s surprise, the Senate put the bill on the fast track last week and granted it the necessary approvals. Supreme Court Justice Michel Bastarache gave it royal assent late on Friday, minutes before the Senate adjourned. […]
The National Post on DRM
The National Post runs a brief masthead editorial today on the Sony debacle and the recording industry's use of digital rights management. The editorial is further evidence that this story remains in the public eye nearly four weeks after it first broke. The key quote (unfortunately the full editorial is […]
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