Your news links for today: Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail – VICE News EFF to Supreme Court: Police Need a Warrant for Americans’ Cell Phone Location Records – EFF FTC CTO: Full Disk Encryption Is Important In Preventing Crime – Techdirt Microsoft slips user-tracking tools into Windows 7,
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OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, August 31, 2015
Your news links for today: The media and the public’s right to know – Ottawa Citizen Canada’s prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him – The Guardian RCMP planning mass arrest of indigenous activists under Bill C-51, supporters warn – ThinkPol 5 years after
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Your news links for today: Tech Giants Want to Punish DMCA Takedown Abusers – TorrentFreak Ashley Madison abusing DMCA “to put genie back in the bottle,” EFF says – Ars Technica TISA and Tech’s Double Standards On Secret Government Internet Deals – EFF Windows 10 Reserves The Right To Block
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Your news links for today: G20 Police Conviction Reminds Us Not to Repeat History – Torontoist The most disturbing thing we learned from the G20 – Toronto Star Tory candidates told to avoid debates, media during campaign – Toronto Star Virginia Police Force BBC Reporters To Delete Camera Footage Of
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Your news links for today: When surveillance is a feature, not a bug – Al Jazeera America New Zealand gov’t promises secret courts for accused terrorists – Cory Doctorow Malaysia To Introduce RFID Tracking For Every Vehicle – Techdirt Irony: NSA worried hackers with super computers might break current encryption
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Your news links for today: Nova Scotia cyberbullying law challenge ruling expected today – CBC News Canada’s Police Want Laws That Will Give Them ‘Real Time’ Access to Your Data – VICE Motherboard Feds considering warrantless access to internet subscriber info: police chiefs – CTV News Toronto police G20 supervisor
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Your news links for today: First they came for the cheaters. Why Ashley Madison hack is bad news – KitGuru Ashley Madison hack: 2 unconfirmed suicides linked to breach, Toronto police say – CBC News The Ashley Madison Affair – CANADALAND Podcast Spotify says sorry after privacy policy anger –
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Your news links for today: Jeb Bush: More NSA Power, Less Encryption Please – DSL Reports
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Your news links for today: How Canada’s Conservative Party is brazenly playing the terrorism card – The Conversation Feds Still Shrugging People Onto Terrorist Watchlists Based On Hunches – Techdirt New (TSA) pornoscanners are also useless, cost $160 million – Cory Doctorow Small Internet providers challenge CRTC ruling on roaming
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Your news links for today: TPP’s Copyright Term Extension Isn’t Made for Artists—It’s Made By and For Big Content Companies – EFF After Internet Companies Protest, MPAA Declares Victory And Walks Away From Attempt To Backdoor SOPA – Techdirt Hollywood Keeps Breaking Box Office Records… While Still Insisting That The
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Your news links for today: No Privacy = No Security – Medium AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale – New York Times US Admits It Uses Predictions, Not Data, to Blacklist Flyers – WIRED Harper government resorts to Orwellian measures – Prince George Citizen How Canada
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Your news links for today: Rejecting TPP a Matter of Human Rights – The Tyee Breaking the US government’s hold on the internet won’t be easy – The Conversation Canada Is Still Doing A Half-Assed Job Enforcing Its Net Neutrality Rules, Highlighting Importance of Competition – Techdirt CNN & CBC
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Your news links for today: The internet and the death of privacy – The Age British intelligence service spying on MPs in defiance of laws prohibiting it – The Independent The NSA Playset: Espionage tools for the rest of us – Ars Technica Hilariously terrifying talk about security – Cory
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Your news links for today: When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice – New York Times The Many Things Wrong With the Anti-Encryption Op-Ed in the New York Times – The Intercept The Battle Over Warrantless Phone Tracking Moves Closer To Supreme Court – BuzzFeed Here are Some More Affordable Data Plans
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Your news links for today: St. Louis County Charges Journalists Who Covered Ferguson Protests With Trespassing – Techdirt Super-fast Internet is coming – along with super-high pricing – Globe and Mail Bell Unveils Gigabit Broadband For $150 (Canadian) – DSL Reports Want fiber Internet? That’ll be $383,500, ISP tells farm
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Your news links for today: Canada’s Quiet History of Weakening Communications Encryption – Telecom Transparency Project ‘Netflix tax’ inevitable as more services go online, experts say – Calgary Herald Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership draft would force Canada to rework copyright, critics say – CBC News EFF Told to “Shut the Hell
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Your news links for today: Victory at last? The Economist Reports: “The TPP is dead” – AG News Twitter, Mulcair laugh off Harper’s warning about ‘Netflix tax’ – CTV News Operation Anonymous Down – CANADALAND Podcast Surveillance cameras being installed around Charlottetown – CBC News “PING SUSP PHONE”—An Oakland shooting
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Your news links for today: Netflix Taxes and Canadian Digital Issues in the Election Spotlight – Michael Geist Canada Changed Its Election Rules So It Could Negotiate the TPP – VICE Motherboard Conservatives were sure Trans-Pacific Partnership deal would be signed – Globe and Mail TPP Leaks Reveal Blows to
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Your news links for today: The TPP Copyright Chapter Leaks: Canada May Face Website Blocking, New Criminal Provisions & Term Extension – Michael Geist Fast fibre-optic internet arrives in many small towns before big cities – CBC News Countries with the Most Expensive Average Cell Phone Bill – The Richest
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Your news links for today: ‘Anonymous’ starts slow leaking of cabinet confidences, CSE spy attempts – iPolitics Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talk peaks as Canada eyes election timing – CBC NSA Will Destroy Archived Metadata When Program Stops – The Intercept Stop CISA: Join EFF in a Week of Action Opposing
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