Your news links for today: Federal Court Orders Bell to Pay $20,000 in Damages Over Privacy Violation (Michael Geist) Consumer-friendly cellphone rules coming in Ontario (Toronto Star) Info sharing between CSIS and CSEC concerns security watchdog (CBC) Congress Must Not Fast Track TPP to Ratification (EFF) After NSA leaks, Google
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OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest For Thursday, October 31, 2013
Your news links for today: Bell wanders into its own negative-option fiasco (Words By Nowak) CRTC: Friend or Foe? (HowardForums) Experts call for sweeping review of Copyright Board (The Wire Report) NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say (Washington Post) Google and Yahoo furious at
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Your news links for today: Ottawa rejects Telus’s second attempt to buy Mobilicity (Globe and Mail) CETA Technical Summary (Canada’s Economic Action Plan) Why can’t Australian citizens read the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement? (The Guardian) Is Bell’s Plan to Monitor and Profile Canadians Legal? (Michael Geist) Lax security at Canada Revenue
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Your news links for today: NS: Seaside says it won’t track TV and online habits of customers (Daily Business Buzz) TPP talks bog down over intellectual property rights (Japan Times) The White House on Spying (New York Times) The out-of-control NSA (Washington Post) NSA surveillance: Spain demands US explains ‘monitoring’
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Your news links for today: $2 paper phone bill fee in CRTC crosshairs: Roseman (Toronto Star) CSE still operating embassy collection sites (Lux Ex Umbra) NSA ‘monitored 60m Spanish calls in a month’ (BBC) Embassy Espionage: The NSA’s Secret Spy Hub in Berlin (SPIEGEL Online) NSA ‘Asked’ Japan to Tap
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Your news links for today: Privacy Commissioner to investigate Bell Canada’s privacy policy changes (Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada) FINTRAC collecting too much info on innocent Canadians (CBC) Another Reason to Hate TPP: It Gives Big Content New Tools to Undermine Sane Digital Rights Policies (EFF) Release the
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Your news links for today: Ottawa approves Telus deal to acquire wireless startup Public Mobile (Financial Post) Public Interest Coalition Opposes Fast-Track Authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (EFF) Canadians sue spy agency over mass data collection (GigaOM) Celebrities Tell the NSA to Get Out of Their Business (WIRED) Anger Growing
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Your news links for today: Canadian spy agency sued for allegedly violating charter (CBC) Civil liberties groups launch lawsuit against Canadian eavesdropping agency (Globe and Mail) Civil Liberties Group Sues Over Spy Allegations (NY Times) Commissioner’s letter to Chief of Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) (Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Your news links for today: Customer profiling, online behavioural marketing and your information (Bell Support Pages) Bell Canada To Track Web, TV Surfing Habits For Ad Purposes (Huffington Post) The Great Canadian Personal Data Grab Continues: Bell Expands Its Consumer Monitoring and Profiling (Michael Geist) Bell’s data collecting may be
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, October 21st, 2013
Your news links for today: Will The Canada-EU Trade Agreement Harm Our Freedoms Online? (La Quadrature du Net) Report: U.S. intercepts French phone calls on a ‘massive scale’ (CNN) US spy agency ‘taped millions of French calls’ (The Local) France in the NSA’s crosshair : phone networks under surveillance (Le
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Your news links for today: Rogers Wireless collection agency sends bills to dead Manitobans (CBC) Canada: Who Will Keep an Eye on the Spies? (Epoch Times) The World’s Policeman Is Looking Mighty Guilty (Slate) Edward Snowden: US would have buried NSA warnings forever (The Guardian) Dutch Telcos Used Customer Metadata,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Your news links for today: Canadian Government Unveils Its Celebrations-First Agenda (Michael Geist) ITU report pours more fuel on telecom pricing fire (Peter Nowak) Right to slam talks secrecy (Stuff.co.nz) The Great Canadian Personal Data Grab (Michael Geist) Are We Moving To A World With More Online Surveillance? (NPR) Outdoor
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Your news links for today: Conservatives put consumer focus on Parliament’s return (Toronto Star) How trade deals threaten modern culture (Ottawa Citizen) There’s an International Plan to Censor the Internet in the Works — Let’s Stop It in Its Tracks (AlterNet) TPP Fact Sheet (Citizens Trade Campaign — direct link
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, October 15th, 2013
Your news links for today: Rogers bill ruins credit rating of man who doesn’t have Rogers account (CBC) Federal gov’t to push cable providers to unbundle channels (Toronto Sun) Government to Mandate “Pick-and-Pay” Pricing Option for Television Services (Michael Geist) Anti TPPA protest at KLCC (Free Malaysia Today) President Obama:
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, October 11th, 2013
Your news links for today: #Rogersoutage: another reason for more competition (Macleans) Corporate Espionage, Drunk Telecom Execs, and Pissed off Victims (Jason Koblovsky) Why is Canada’s privacy czar worried about the country’s cyber-spying agency? (and what’s she doing about it?) (Global News) Brazil spying report gives Canada black eye: opposition
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Your news links for today: Rogers apologizes for country-wide wireless outage, gives customers one day of free service (Financial Post) The wrath of a thousand Canadians is a mighty sight. #rogersoutage (@Rogers) Canadian Government Quietly Pursuing New ISP Code of Conduct (Michael Geist) Measuring wireless broadband in Canada (Peter Nowak)
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Your news links for today: Bill to Protect Wireless Customers Passes Second Reading (Ontario Minister of Consumer Services) Indie ISPs Accuse Big Telecom Of ‘Anti-Competitive Behaviour’ (Huffington Post) TPP: This is a fight worth joining (Public Address) TPP Is a Race to The Bottom — We Need a Race to
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Your news links for today: Canada spying in Brazil: more to come, Greenwald promises (CBC) Brazil is tip of the iceberg on Canadian spying, U.S. journalist says (Globe & Mail) Spy agency CSEC needs MPs’ oversight, ex-director says (CBC) Brazil demands explanation from Canada over spying report (Reuters) Brazil-Canada spying:
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Daily Digital Digest for Monday October 7th, 2014
Here are your daily news links: Canadian spies targeted Brazil’s mines ministry: report (CBC) Charges that Canada spied on Brazil unveil CSEC’s inner workings (Globe & Mail) CSEC Olympia slides (Lux Ex Umbra) Everybody Let’s Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word (EFF) Kiwis must reject TPPA
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