Your news links for today: High court rules data retention and surveillance legislation unlawful – The Guardian UK schools’ “anti-radicalisation” software lets hackers spy on kids – Cory Doctorow Saunders’ comments belong in a police state – Toronto Star Obama’s low-income broadband initiative could change the lives of millions of
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OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, July 16, 2015
Your news links for today: Internet of things: the greatest mass surveillance infrastructure ever? – The Guardian No U-turn: David Cameron still wants to break encryption – WIRED Researcher Receives Copyright Threat After Exposing Security Hole – TorrentFreak Buenos Aires Censors and Raids the Technologists Fixing Its Flawed E-Voting System
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Your news links for today: In a huge U-turn, the UK government now says it is NOT going to try to ban encryption – Business Insider Do Encrypted Phones Threaten National Security? – The Atlantic Why London police will arrest you for charging your iPhone on a train – BGR
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Your news links for today: Oscar-Winner Laura Poitras Sues After U.S Ignores FOIA Request – The Intercept Why was Oscar-winning Snowden documentarian detained 50+ times in US airports? – Ars Technica Privacy campaigners win concessions in UK surveillance report – The Guardian Leaked Documents Reveal #TPP Targets Journalists and Whistleblowers
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Your news links for today: The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders – The Atlantic TSA Blows Off Inspector General’s Suggestion Boarding Pass Information Be Encrypted – Techdirt Halt to warrantless disclosures not hindering RCMP, say documents – Toronto Star Canadian teenager sentenced to 16 months in jail
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Your news links for today: What horrible things did we learn about Hacking Team today? – Cory Doctorow Hacking Team Email Jokes About Killing ACLU’s Chris Soghoian – The Intercept Canadian Police Looked Into Buying Hacking Software – VICE Motherboard The FBI claims it doesn’t want to have to force
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Your news links for today: T-Mobile no longer charges you for using your phone in Mexico and Canada – Android Central New T-Mobile ‘Uncarrier’ Move Eliminates North American Borders – DSL Reports New Calgary wireless report suggests Rogers, Bell and Telus offer nearly identical experience – Mobile Syrup Big Tech
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Your news links for today: Canadian government issues “transparency reporting guidelines” – Canadian Privacy Law Blog ICANN’s plan to end online anonymity would ‘radically undermine’ internet privacy and safety – The Inquirer Computer scientists on the excruciating stupidity of banning crypto – Cory Doctorow Why a Back Door to the
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Your news links for today: High prices are sparking a wireless black market in Canada – Alpha Beatic Why the New Canadian Telecom Transparency Rules Fall Short – Michael Geist Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Hacking Team Spyware – The Intercept Tuesday Court Hearing Over Absurd Copyright
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Your news links for today: Fleet of Government Aircraft Flying Secret Missions over U.S. Cities – Medium How the Founding Fathers Fought an 18th Century Version of the President’s Illegal Domestic Spying – EFF ‘I’m in charge here’: Mountie shuts down family soccer game – CTV News Koodo Increases the
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Your news links for today: WikiLeaks drops new set of secret TISA docs: Yep, no one agrees – Ars Technica Tech Giants Oppose Broad Anti-Piracy Injunctions – TorrentFreak Chicago to Apply 9% ‘Netflix Tax’ – DSL Reports A look at the Inner Workings of NSA’s XKEYSCORE – The Intercept GCHQ
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Your news links for today: Access Copyright’s Post-Secondary Tariff – The Glacier is Starting to Melt at the Copyright Board – EXCESS COPYRIGHT Industry Canada Transparency Report Guidelines Intensely Problematic – Telecom Transparency Project Quebec Gambles with the Open Internet – Michael Geist Surveillance Court Rules That N.S.A. Can Resume
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Your news links for today: This can be said succinctly: Clips of people being killed shouldn’t be used as campaign fodder – National Post Dear Reddit, this is how the Conservative attack ad using ISIS propaganda is ILLEGAL under C51. Let’s hold the Conservative party accountable for violating the law.
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Your news links for today: Latest Conservative ad could violate government’s own anti-terror law – CTV News Video: Conservative campaign spokesman Kory Teneycke defends use of ISIS video in recent attack ad – Global News Conservative’s ISIS ad violates Geneva Convention, opposition says – ThinkPol Police face little accountability, five
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Your news links for today: Stephen Harper ready to sign TPP and throw Tory rural base under the bus – Cory Doctorow Productivity Commission slams TPP for stringent IP measures – ZDNet Canada Saves Public From Public Domain, Extends Copyright On Sound Recordings Another 20 Years – Techdirt Piracy Concerns
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Your news links for today: Getting OMNI’d: Why Many Canadian TV Channels May Be Headed for the Chopping Block – Michael Geist The music industry’s new song and dance – Globe and Mail Shaw loses customers, profit falls 8 per cent – Globe and Mail Rogers-Mobilicity deal shakes up spectrum
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Your news links for today: Mobilicity accepts Rogers’ $465-million offer – Globe and Mail Industry Canada has approved the sale of Mobilicity to Rogers, Wind Mobile will receive “certain AWS-1 spectrum” – Mobile Syrup Mobilicity founder, staff scramble to keep brand alive – Financial Post MTS launches Total Internet, Canada’s
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Your news links for today: Why conservatives want C-51 killed — and what they’re doing about it – iPolitics Senators Walloped with ‘Intense’ Amount of Anti-C-51 Email – The Tyee ‘We don’t want something to unravel’: Mobilicity weighs rival takeover offers amid government scrutiny – Financial Post Big Three: “We’re
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Your news links for today: B.C. Court of Appeal Rules Facebook’s Fine Print Trumps Privacy Law – Michael Geist Three arrested during Bill C-51 protest in Halifax – Chronicle Herald Telus trying again to buy Mobilicity, wants to appease Ottawa by handing spectrum to Wind – Financial Post Top court
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Your news links for today: C-51, controversial anti-terrorism bill, is now law. So, what changes? – CBC News Senators snowed under by anti-C-51 email – iPolitics Why the Liberal Party Defence of Its Support for Bill C-51 Falls Flat – Michael Geist UN report promotes encryption as fundamental and protected
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