Your news links for today: Canada allowed U.S. to spy on G20 leaders at Toronto summit, top secret documents reveal (National Post) Reports: US spied at Canada conferences (Al Jazeera) Canadian government refuses to confirm U.S. surveillance of G20 summit in Canada (RCI) Top spy won’t answer questions about G20
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OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, November 28, 2013
Your news links for today: New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto (CBC) Privacy watchdog backs cyberbullying bill’s ‘lawful access’ powers (Globe and Mail) Why Peter MacKay Is Wrong About Warrantless Access to Personal Information (Michael Geist) New Democrats put focus on cyberbullying (NDP) Canada Must Hold
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Your news links for today: Bell Mobility Accused Of 800% Markup On Netflix In CRTC Complaint (Huffington Post) Instead of Rights, How About Access? (HowardForums) French telecom giant eyes entry into Canadian market (Globe and Mail) US TPP Negotiators Accused Of Bullying; Refusing To Budge On Ridiculous IP And Corporate
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Carleton Professor Criticizes Canadian Telecom Industry, Gets Twitter Account Suspended
Not gonna lie… this freaked me out a little bit. According to Professor Dwayne Winseck — aka “mediamorphis” on Twitter and on HowardForums, a post I made on HowardForums might be implicated in the suspension of his Twitter account last weekend. That post can be found here. Professor Winseck spoke
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Your news links for today: The Next Broadband Challenge: Wireless (Journal of Information Policy PDF) Ben Klass asks CRTC to stop Bell’s delinquency on Mobile TV (Life on the Broadband Internet) The Curious Case of the Suspended Twitter Account (HowardForums) Federal Court Takes CSIS To Task In Case Involving CSEC
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, November 25, 2013
Your news links for today: Carleton Study Challenges Claims of Big Mobile Wireless Players and Promotes Need for Maverick Brands (Carleton Newsroom) Canada would be well served by welcoming wireless competition: researcher (Ottawa Citizen) Security and privacy: Experts connect the dots as debate rages (Ottawa Citizen) The Privacy Threats in
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, November 22, 2013
Your news links for today: New cyberbullying law has ‘larger agenda,’ expands police powers (CBC) Cyberbullying bill a Trojan horse to revive online surveillance: critics (Calgary Herald) Conservatives reviving old controversy with proposal of cyberbullying law, critics say (Globe and Mail) Matt Gurney: Conservatives’ overstuffed ‘cyberbullying’ bill enough to make
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, November 21, 2013
Your news links for today: Cyberbullying legislation to target spread of intimate images (CBC) Lawful Access is Back: Controversial Bill Returns Under the Guise of Cyber-Bullying Legislation (Michael Geist) Mobile Wireless in Canada: Recognizing the Problems and Approaching Solutions (Canadian Media Concentration Research Project) Crossing The Line (Ban Klass) The
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Your news links for today: Harper government’s extensive spying on anti-oilsands groups revealed in FOIs (Vancouver Observer) Leaked TPP Text Confirms Countries Had Plenty to Hide (Michael Geist) The Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty is the complete opposite of ‘free trade’ (The Guardian) The United States is isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Your news links for today: Canada’s Wireless Digital Divide (HowardForums) Taking those old telecom myths out for a spin (Peter Nowak) NDP push reforms to Access to Information Act (Toronto Star) The TPP IP Chapter Leaks: U.S. Demanding Overhaul of Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Bill (Michael Geist) NSA grapples with huge increase
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, November 18, 2013
Your news links for today: Rogers customer takes stand on ‘punitive’ cancellation fees (CBC) Canadian industry minister says wireless companies will lose unused spectrum (Toronto Star) TekSavvy CEO on the coming cable Internet rate increase (DSL Reports) Leaked Treaty Puts US Hard Line on Patents and Copyrights on Public Display
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, November 15, 2013
Your news links for today: Digital Divide: Canada’s Poorest Sacrifice Basic Needs To Get Connected (Huffington Post) Ottawa to crack down on telecom carriers for hoarding spectrum (Globe and Mail) Teach-in on University e-Services Outsourcing to U.S. Corporations (Google Docs) “Canadians don’t want to read about privacy.” (Macleans) 4 Terrible
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, November 14, 2013
Your news links for today: Secret TPP treaty IP Chapter: Advanced text with negotiation positions for all 12 nations (Wikileaks) TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms (EFF) Outrage after TPP leak reveals piracy criminalisation (Delimiter) Leaked papers show TPPA puts internet providers
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Your news links for today: Supreme Court Of Canada To Police: Get A Warrant To Search Computers And Mobile Phones (Mondaq) The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (OS News) House Stalls Trade Pact Momentum (New York Times) The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA’s all-seeing machine
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Your news links for today: Tucows CEO Elliot Noss on how Rogers, Telus and Bell are holding Canada back. (CANADALAND) Canada’s new ‘spy palace’ damaged by weekend fire (CBC) Spy agency’s budget to hit $460-million after ‘steady path’ of growth (Globe and Mail) NSA leaks on Canadian surveillance coming, Greenwald
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, November 8, 2013
Your news links for today: Police need judge’s specific permission to search computers, Supreme Court rules (Globe and Mail) The Canadian Wireless Rip Off (Ben Klass) Considering C-8: My Appearance Before the Industry Committee on the Anti-Counterfeiting Bill (Michael Geist) Ottawa, we have a problem (Ariel Katz) The Politics of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, November 7, 2013
Your news links for today: Pricey Wireless Shuts out Poorer Canadians (The Tyee) Telecom billing complaints on the rise, report says (CBC) Telecom Complaints In Canada More Than Double: Watchdog (Huffington Post) TTIP Update IV (Open Enterprise) Tim Berners-Lee: encryption cracking by spy agencies ‘appalling and foolish’ (The Guardian) Dianne
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Your news links for today: This is big: Three events you cannot miss at MDD 2013 (The Media Democracy Project) Some thoughts on Chitrakar v. Bell TV and damage awards under Canadian privacy law (Canadian Privacy Law Blog) read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Your news links for today: The bottom line on high wireless prices (Peter Nowak) Statscan Data Points to Canada’s Growing Digital Divide (Michael Geist) Speech by Jean-Pierre Blais at Community of Federal Regulators’ annual workshop (CRTC) Protect Our Privacy Coalition: Getting Real about User Privacy (BIBLIOCRACY) ‘Let Me Stress How
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, November 4, 2013
Your news links for today: Bell data collection part of ‘disturbing trend’ (CBC) Bell TV ‘reprehensible’ in violating Nova Scotia man’s privacy, judge says (The Star) Federal Court chastises Bell for accessing customer credit file without consent; $21K in damages (Canadian Privacy Law Blog) Roaming fees are CRTC priority as
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