Your news links for today: Europe, Still Angry at U.S. Spying, Prepares to Increase Its Own – The Intercept Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws – Telegraph How a digital rights project ranks tech firms and attempts to fix global failure – The Guardian
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OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Your news links for today: Move Over, America: Canada Is the Land of the Free – Foreign Policy Canada ranked first for ‘personal freedom’ by annual prosperity index – Global News Why a Battle over the Internet and Canadian Cultural Policy is Brewing – Michael Geist The Extinction of Privacy
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Your news links for today: Japan’s Abe, Trudeau agree to promote TPP – Globe and Mail Crypto is For Everyone – and American History Proves It – EFF Government forced to U-turn on internet spying and encryption ban plans – BetaNews UK Gov’t Pretends That It’s ‘Backed Down’ On Snooper’s
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Your news links for today: VICE News Battles Canadian Police Over Right to Protect Journalist’s Material – VICE News (UK) Police to be granted powers to view your internet history – The Telegraph Wikimedia v. NSA: Another Court Blinds Itself to Mass NSA Surveillance – EFF John McAfee: CISA will
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Your news links for today: Why Apple Pay’s Canadian launch bypassed banks – Globe and Mail What mobile payment options are available to Canadians? – Globe and Mail Canadians spending more on mobile data services: CRTC – MoneySense The FCC Has To Remind ISPs Not To Spend Taxpayer Subsidies On
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Your news links for today: C-51 Reform, TPP Top the List of “Real Change” Tech Policy Priorities – Michael Geist Support for Bill C-51 hits all time low – ThinkPol Senate passes major cybersecurity info-sharing bill CISA – Daily Dot EFF Disappointed as CISA Passes Senate – EFF Senate Passes
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Your news links for today: Secret surveillance laws make it impossible to have an informed debate about privacy – Cory Doctorow Senior Former Intelligence Official Admits That ‘The Point’ Of CISA Is Surveillance – Techdirt Top German official infected by highly advanced spy trojan with NSA ties – Ars Technica
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Your news links for today: Court Chooses to Ignore Overwhelming Evidence of NSA’s Mass Internet Spying – ACLU Facebook betrayed us by secretly lobbying for cyber-surveillance bill – Cory Doctorow CSIS operations under C-51 with foreign partners raise accountability concerns – Toronto Sun Apple’s EULA Gives It License to Invade
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Your news links for today: ‘TrudeauMetre’ Website To Track Every Liberal Pledge – Huffington Post Canada’s new Liberal majority: better than the Tories, still terrible for the Internet – Cory Doctorow California Leads the Way in Digital Privacy – EFF CISA Moves Forward: These 83 Senators Just Voted To Expand
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Your news links for today: Liberals plan swift overhaul of anti-terror law – Ottawa Citizen TPP means no more domain privacy – Cory Doctorow PRIVACY’S LAST CHANCE: CISA is on the Senate floor NOW and WE MUST KILL IT – Cory Doctorow Europe’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Could Allow Torrent and VPN
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Your news links for today: Keystone & TPP under question as Canada elects Liberal PM – RT News Justin Trudeau just not ready to take on cellphone bills – Peter Nowak How to beat high cellphone bills: buy telecom stocks – Peter Nowak CRTC Dismisses Consumer Complaint vs Bell’s Targeted
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Your news links for today: Justin Trudeau pledges ‘real change’ as Liberals leap ahead to majority government – CBC News Canadaland Commons: Election Night Special – CANADALAND Podcast Real Change on Digital Policy May Take Time Under New Liberal Government – Michael Geist How today’s election may affect the telecom
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Your news links for today: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives’ Digital Policy – Michael Geist Internet issues playing minor role in election – Star Touch Capstone comments on security for 2015 election – National Security Law Blog Some Mobile Apps to Help You Participate in Today’s Federal Election
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Your news links for today: TPP: Spying, Blocking, and the Internet – CANADALAND Podcast The NDP’s Confusion on Copyright Term: Is Term Extension on their Agenda? – Michael Geist Entertainment Distributors’ Push For Site-Blocking Power Get More Extreme – EFF It’s not enough that Apple and Google are bringing usable
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Your news links for today: Fred Ghahramani, Tech Entrepreneur, Donates $1 Million To Defeat Bill C-51 – Huffington Post Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election – CBC News Leaked docs reveal TPP will force ISPs to hand over copyright infringers’ identities – BGR Say hello to the newest
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Your news links for today: If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy – The Atlantic Defendants Should Have the Right to Inspect the Software Code Used to Convict Them – Slate Sanders would ‘absolutely’ end NSA spying – The Hill Why the TPP Creates a Backdoor Copyright Takedown System in Canada
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Your news links for today: Liberal Leader Would Change When Canada’s NSA Could Spy – VICE News CSE-related items in the Liberal platform – Lux Ex Umbra Is the Canadian Government Misleading the Public on the TPP Copyright Provisions? – Michael Geist Trade Officials Announce Conclusion of TPP—Now the Real
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Your news links for today: Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement reached – CBC News TPP Negotiations Conclude: What Next for the Trade Deal Without a Public Text? – Michael Geist ELI5 : What does this TPP deal mean for Canada? – r/Canada GCHQ’s surveillance hasn’t proved itself to be worth the
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Your news links for today: Why is it so hard to convince people to care about privacy? – The Guardian Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Privacy Is A Fundamental Human Right’ – NPR France’s plan to legalize mass surveillance will give it the power to spy on the world – Cory
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Your news links for today: Leaked Email Shows Canada’s Foreign Ministry Is Pissed That Staff Are Leaking Secret Docs – VICE News So why all the secrecy on TPP? – iPolitics Trans-Pacific Partnership remains a hot election issue – 660 NEWS If you’re worried about TTIP, then you need to
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