US_LTTE_fbshare.png Internet advocates celebrate Obama’s move, and point to it as the type of action required to get Canada’s Internet rates and speeds on par with global counterparts. January 14, 2015 – Internet advocates are celebrating this afternoon’s announcement from the Obama Administration pushing for common-sense steps to stop U.S.
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OpenMedia.ca: New privacy legislation fails to tackle Canadians’ central privacy concern: reckless and expensive government surveillance
New privacy legislation does nothing to protect Canadians from out-of-control government spying. That’s according to our own Steve Anderson, writing in today’s edition of the @Epoch Times. Please SHARE this piece and speak out for real privacy protections at http://OurPrivacy.ca This week, Industry Minister James Moore quietly tabled a new
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia Street Teams get active at a local level to fight online spying
Members the pro-Internet community are busily working with OpenMedia staff to get active at a local level, and standing up for your privacy by amplifying voices from our StopSpying.ca campaign. It’s inspiring and it’s working. In case you missed it, check out this amazing coverage, and keep your eyes peeled
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canada is a Pro-Internet Trendsetter: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC: Canada’s largest ISP to stop throttling the open Internet
From CBC News Bell internet customers will no longer have their file sharing uploads and downloads deliberately slowed down. Bell Canada and Bell Aliant will stop using equipment to selectively slow down file sharing applications on their networks starting March 1, the companies said in a letter to the Canadian
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: Privacy law amendment foreshadows Lawful Access
From Huffington Post
It’s not exactly Canada’s very own Patriot Act, but a Harper government amendment to the country’s privacy law has some experts seeing shadows of the controversial U.S. legislation.
Industry Minister Christian Paradis tabled an a…
OpenMedia.ca: Government Trust Broken? Breach of Abused Mother’s New Identity
After years of domestic abuse, there were high hopes for Jane Doe and her daughter to lead a normal life with new identities. With assistance from a secretive federal program, New Identities for Victims of Abuse (NIVA), they were finally given full sec…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: History Repeating: 130 years later and still stuck in "Telephonmania"
Interestingly, Arstechnica points to questions that were raised 130 years ago regarding the telephone industry and its implementation of metered billing. Sound familiar? Like those who protested in 1886, the pro-Internet community is striving to encour…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Mark: What the "lawful access" bill might mean for Canadian’s online security
By Alexander Ly and Adam Webb for The Mark
Canadian privacy online is about to be put at serious risk. As if internet malefactors and unruly privacy settings on major applications weren’t enough to dissuade Canadians from exercising their online libe…
OpenMedia.ca: Coalition Members Talk Stop Online Spying on CBC Radio
Why is everybody freaking out about Lawful Access right now? Why is the “I’ve got nothing to hide” argument missing the point? And why are the experts (Privacy Commissioners, academics, and public interest organizations) so concerned?
Listen to Tamir …
OpenMedia.ca: Security risks of increased digital surveillance call for a closer look
As this CBC commentary from Dan Misener describes, despite its “unfortunate name,” the Conservative government’s “Lawful Access” legislation is anything but boring. Indeed, this invasive set of electronic surveillance bills present grave security risks…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Hasiuk: Conservative "Lawful Access" bills would bring about unprecedented online powers
By Mark Hasiuk for Vancouver Courier
Cyberspace. The final frontier.
Back in 2003, Barrett Lyon, a computer scientist from California, embarked on the most ambitious cartography project since David Thompson. Using computer graphics, Lyon mapped the Int…
OpenMedia.ca: Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Ontario Court Protects Political Speech and Internet Anonymity
From Canadian Civil Liberties Association
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently issued a decision on a motion brought by the former mayor of the municipality of Aurora. The former mayor has sued some of her former constituents for defamation …
OpenMedia.ca: Masnick: Court Refuses To Issue Injunction Stopping Secret Web Spycams From Running On Rental Laptops
By Mike Masnick for TechDirt
A couple months ago, we wrote about the class action lawsuit from a family who discovered that the company from whom they had rented a laptop, Aaron’s, had secretly installed spying software that would surreptitiously turn …
OpenMedia.ca: Ellis: Beyond UBB: the CRTC’s war on Canadian consumers
By David Ellis for Life on the Broadband Internet
In my previous post, I suggested the consumer ISP complaints revealed recently are bad enough, but only the tip of a much larger iceberg. The more unsettling issue is that the complaints in question wer…
OpenMedia.ca: Geist: What is so undemocratic about allowing a few companies to control the Net?
By Michael Geist
The second day of the CRTC hearing on usage based billing left the Commission with three fairly divergent views on Canadian networks, traffic management, and the wholesale tariff (coverage from the Globe, Cartt.ca, Wire Report). While …
OpenMedia.ca: Edmonton Journal: Internet providers slow speeds, researcher says
By Jason Magder for Edmonton Journal
Canadian Internet providers have purposely or accidentally slowed down the speeds of its customers dozens of times in the last two years, and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has done …
OpenMedia.ca: iPolitics: Competing views on internet billing clash at CRTC
By Elizabeth Thompson for iPolitics
Conflicting views over how Canadians should pay for internet usage clashed before the CRTC Monday, as the commission heard a new round of arguments over how small internet service providers should be billed for the b…
OpenMedia.ca: Telemanagement: CRTC begins usage-based billing hearings
By Anthony Gabryluk for Telemanagement
Consumer advocates have told the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that big telecommunications companies should address the issue of internet congestion by investing more in their …
OpenMedia.ca: ARS: Metered billing: it’s a lack of competition, not congestion
By Matthew Lasar for ARS Technica
It looks like Canada’s telecom regulators are showing some new-found skepticism about metered or “usage-based” billing (UBB). The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has been holding hear…