Your news links for today: Industry Minister James Moore to Make Important Announcement (Government of Canada) Rogers snapping up Canadian content deals to supercede Netflix (Stockhouse News) The Trouble With Bill C-13: Why the “Cyberbullying Bill” is About Much More than Cyberbullying (Michael Geist) Ron Deibert: Surveilling Cyberspace (The Agenda
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OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, January 9, 2014
Your news links for today: ‘Bell is not above the law,’ says man awarded $21K for privacy breach (CBC) Arm’s Length or Strong Arming the CRTC?: Minister Moore’s “Mandate Letter” to CRTC Head Jean-Pierre Blais (Mediamorphis) European Report Says Canadian Privacy Law Should Be Re-Examined Due to Surveillance Activities (Michael
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Your news links for today: Canada’s 700 MHz spectrum auction is a week away, here are the eleven companies deciding our wireless future (Mobile Syrup) Rogers charges customer for traffic on their local network (reddit) Breaking: Chief spy watchdog working for Enbridge since 2011 (Vancouver Observer) Why CSEC and CSIS
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Your news links for today: The Letters of the Law: The Year in Tech Law and Policy (Michael Geist) How Canada’s telecom war turned ugly (Financial Post) 2013 Canadian ISP Summit Regulatory Panel Discussion (YouTube) Hollywood’s War on Kim Dotcom Will Hurt Online Innovation (VICE Canada) Trading Away Human Rights
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Your news links for today: 2013 blog in review: it was (almost) all telecom (WordsByNowak) Questions in need of answers: Geist (Toronto Star) CSIS should be subject of independent investigation: Geist (Toronto Star) Edward Snowden did us all a favour, it’s time to curb the snooping (CBC) Watching the watchdogs
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Your news links for today: Copyright Collectives Gone Mad: How the ERCC Spent Dollars to Earn Pennies (Michael Geist) Thursday Thinkpiece: Geist on Fair Dealing and Fair Use (Slaw) Copyright’s Blind Spot: The Innovation Asymmetry (DisCo) Northwestel must improve northern telecom service, CRTC says (CBC) Verizon to publish reports on
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Your news links for today: Govt Promises Domestic Wireless Roaming Regulation: Can Wholesale Price Regulation Be Far Behind? (Michael Geist) MVNOs: Canada vs. USA (HowardForums) read more
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Your news links for today: Canadian government to begin regulating domestic roaming rates (Mobile Syrup) The biggest Canadian tech stories of 2013 (WordsByNowak) Underpinnings: Partly redacted chronology of CSEC metadata collection and derivative program. (Colin Freeze on Scribd) Economic intelligence gathering IV (Lux Ex Umbra) November 2013 CSE staff size
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Your news links for today: Have a cellphone complaint? These are the people to call (Globe and Mail) Ben Klass Interview on Corus Radio Hamilton (SoundCloud) Canada can’t research its way out of the wireless wars (Yahoo Finance) Jean-Pierre Blais Is On A Mission As CRTC Chief – But Whose
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Your news links for today: Bell’s discounting of mobile TV against the rules, complaint claims (CBC) “4K streaming will prove taxing on broadband networks, especially in Canada where usage caps are comparatively low to the rest of the world…” (Macleans) George Jonas: Peering into Canadians’ hard drives (National Post) Online
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Your news links for today: CRTC to take closer look at wholesale roaming rates, terms and conditions in Canada (CRTC) Oh give me a home, where the customers roam… (Ben Klass) Two GIFs explaining the CRTC’s decision to investigate the Big Three (Globe and Mail) IIC Conference – Consumer Policy
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Your news links for today: Access Copyright Negotiations (University of Toronto Office of the Vice-President & Provost) Toronto and UWO Confirm the Obvious: Access Copyright Licence Provides Little Value for Education (Michael Geist) Wholesale wireless would be a positive step for Canada (ting blog) Update from the latest Trans Pacific
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Your news links for today: Bell ‘Spying’ On Customers Draws Senate’s Attention (Huffington Post) Covert collection: Whose priorities? (Lux Ex Umbra) Since When Did Roaming Agreements Become News? (Howard Forums) The Privacy Threats in Bill C-13, Part Two: The Low Threshold for Metadata (Michael Geist) The Trans Pacific Partnership and
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Your news links for today: Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA (CBC) Right to Know: Bill C-13 — cyberbullying or legislative bullying? (Ottawa Citizen) Canadian Conservatives’ cyber-bullying bill—a pretext for expanding police surveillance (World Socialist Web Site) Bill Clinton says security does not justify espionage (Xinhua)
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Your news links for today: Inside the Fight for Digital Rights in Canada (Michael Geist on Livestream) Canada Opposed To U.S. Positions On Dozens of Trans Pacific Partnership Issues (Michael Geist) The U.S. Stands Alone: How the U.S. Is Increasingly Isolated on Intellectual Property Policy (Michael Geist) Obama Faces Backlash
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Your news links for today: Competition Bureau Strengthens Advocacy Focus (Competition Bureau) Lawful access: The comeback? (CBA National Magazine) Liberals Demand More Draconian IP Provisions: Propose Adding New Statutory Damages to Bill C-8 (Michael Geist) Copyright Board Says No to Access Copyright’s Attempt to Consolidate 2011-2013 and 2014-2017 Proposed Tariffs
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Your news links for today: Public Record – IIC Conference – How Competitive is Canada’s Telecom Sector? (CPAC Video) Ottawa’s wireless ad is too partisan (Globe and Mail) Netflix Expands Licensing Deal with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Yahoo Finance) Canadian Cyberbullying Bill Expands Scope, Targets Open WiFi Over Terrorism, Child Porn
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Your news links for today: Study Shows Lack of Competition in Canada’s Mobile Wireless Markets (LSE Media Policy Project) Ottawa’s message to the telecom Big Three: Hands off Mobilicity (Globe and Mail) ATIP in Action: Most of 280 pages withheld (@mgeist on Twitter) The Secret So you want to stop
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Your news links for today: Glitch in the Matrix or Twitter Take-Down?: An Open Letter to Twitter (Mediamorphis) Unofficial Show Notes for Professor Dwayne Winseck on CANADALAND (HowardForums) Fretting over past wireless ‘failures’, Ottawa aimed to freeze Big Three out of spectrum (National Post) Canadian broadband slow, expensive (Peter Nowak)
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Your news links for today: Wireless Wars (CANADALAND) Two-year contracts the latest wireless strawman (Peter Nowak) Diversity of media ownership literally non-existent in Canada (The Canadian Journalism Project) Justice Parliamentary Secretary Links Cable Theft to Terrorist Plots, Cyberbullying (Michael Geist) Read Snowden NSA document on G8, G20 summit surveillance (CBC)
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