Your news links for today: Why Universal, Affordable Internet Access Should be 2015 Election Campaign Issue – Michael Geist The TPP End Game and the Canadian Election – Michael Geist Why is the TPP not an election issue?! – r/Canada discussion Canada Wants To Cut Price Of ‘World’s Most Expensive
Continue readingAuthor: Andrew Currie
OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Your news links for today: The Big Secret That Makes the FBI’s Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie – The Intercept Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers for NSA Snooping – VICE Motherboard Microsoft reaffirms privacy commitment, but Windows will keep collecting data – Ars Technica CISA could return to the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, September 28, 2015
Your news links for today: VW – Age of Cheating Software – New York Times Net neutrality could become the biggest face-off on corporate speech since Citizens United – Washington Post AVG anti-virus is selling your web browsing history – Sydney Morning Herald Canada’s auto sector ‘nervous’ about TPP talks
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, September 25, 2015
Your news links for today: Snowden Treaty Launched: Effort To Get Countries To End Mass Surveillance – Techdirt Profiled: From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities – The Intercept Filling in the blanks: Analysis of CSE CNE documents – Lux Ex Umbra Forcing suspects to reveal
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, September 24, 2015
Your news links for today: Canada’s LTE report card: impressive speed, languishing coverage – Mobile Syrup The State of LTE (Worldwide) September 2015 – Open Signal Margaret Atwood schools Jesse on technology, dictators and CanLit – CANADALAND #100 The Women Who Won Net Neutrality – Slate Privacy, net neutrality, security,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Your news links for today: CBC announces plans to sell off all buildings in midst of election campaign – Canadian Media Guild All the ‘Happy Birthday’ song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules – LA Times Dallas Buyers Club files third lawsuit over Popcorn Time – Ars Technica These
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Your news links for today: Announcing the 2015 Heroes & Villains of Human Rights and Communications Surveillance – Access Now Lawyer’s lawsuit highlights Ottawa’s court clashes over Charter rights – Globe and Mail How a Dancing Baby Struck a Blow for Balanced Copyright Law – Michael Geist New Open Letter
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, September 21, 2015
Your news links for today: If Canada’s Internet Is So Great, Why Are So Many People Still Without It? – VICE Motherboard TELUS ‘Your Choice’ Data Plans Change – iPhone in Canada I got charged $7.50 by Bell Mobility for using 0.001mb of data. They’re crooks. – r/Canada Are the Kids
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, September 18, 2015
Your news links for today: Why Internet Privacy Should be a Key Election Issue – Michael Geist Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock Was “Half a Bomb,” Says Anti-Muslim Group With Ties to Trump, Cruz – The Intercept A Dozen Libraries Want to Host Tor Nodes to Protest Govt Fearmongering – VICE Motherboard
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, September 17, 2015
Your news links for today: Conservatives made deal to quiet dissent on C-51, gun group says – Macleans Final push for Pacific Rim pact set for end of September – Globe and Mail Quebecor: No Plans to Expand Wireless Services to Rest of Canada – iPhone in Canada Google Fiber
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Your news links for today: Canada’s information commissioner taking Prime Minister’s Office to court over withheld Senate documents – National Post Devil is in the details for Canada’s data breach disclosure law – Third Certainty A Cybersecurity Bill Light on Security, Heavy on Corporate Protection – Foreign Policy Net neutrality
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Your news links for today: Rogers CEO: “Monetization of Data” Pays Our Bills Nowadays – iPhone in Canada Rogers CEO hopes Spotify partnership will increase mobile data usage – Globe and Mail Apple’s monthly instalment price plan for unlocked iPhones eludes Canada – Globe and Mail It’s not broadband if
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, September 14, 2015
Your news links for today: Bringing Canada’s access to information back from the brink – Toronto Star EFF Provides Evidence to Courts of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T Participation in NSA Spying – EFF Vodafone Australia admits hacking Fairfax journalist’s phone – The Guardian Apple, in refusing backdoor access to
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, September 11, 2015
Your news links for today: Privacy, Security, and the Legacy of 9/11 – University of Connecticut EFF Urges Appeals Court To Toughen Privacy Protections for Devices at the Border – EFF Library offers Tor nodes; DHS tells them to stop – Cory Doctorow GCHQ is giving out advice on how
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, September 10, 2015
Your news links for today: Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes – USA Today Microsoft case: DoJ says it can demand every email from any US-based provider – The Guardian Internet Regulators Just Legitimized The Dark Web – VICE Motherboard Colorado Judge Ignores First Amendment, Allows Prior Restraint
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Your news links for today: Dragon Con Cosplayers Fiercely Defend Privacy and Free Speech in Project Secret Identity 2015 – EFF EFF Applauds Apple’s Refusal of Government Demand for iMessage Backdoor – EFF In Colombia, the worst fears of the surveillance state are on display – Washington Examiner The Security
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Your news links for today: NSA phone data collection ‘not illegal’, US court rules – BBC News Tech companies may be our best hope for resisting government surveillance – Fusion.net Apple Rejected Justice Department Demands for iMessages – Gizmodo How Debian Is Trying to Shut Down the CIA and Make
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, September 4, 2015
Your news links for today: Judge Says NSA Program Is Unconstitutional, ‘It’s Time to Move’ – US News FBI, DEA and others will now have to get a warrant to use stingrays – Ars Technica How Microsoft’s data case could unravel the US tech industry – ZDNet Nearly half of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, September 3, 2015
Your news links for today: Vice News Employees Charged With Terrorism In Turkey… Because They Used Encryption – Techdirt Journalists arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey for using crypto software – Ars Technica Business Cable-Box Rentals: A Needless $19-Billion Industry. But letting customers buy their own would force cable companies
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Your news links for today: CRTC Part 1 Application by CAC-COSCO-PIAC regarding Vidéotron’s “Unlimited Music” undue preference – PIAC Canadian Music Industry Hit With Competition Complaint Over Public Domain Recordings – Michael Geist Why Shouldn’t Copyright Be Infinite? – EFF Google Forms Alliance For Open Media Along With Microsoft, Amazon,
Continue reading