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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…
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.…
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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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
