Update: The RCMP is now going after your mail. Article by Justin Ling for Vice With a federal election in its home stretch, Canada’s chiefs of police have issued a wish list of investigative powers they are hoping that the country’s next prime minister can deliver — everything from allowing
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OpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, September 1, 2015
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,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Common Sense Canadian: Why privacy matters in this Canadian election
Most Canadians do not want to give up their privacy rights. This election, will you vote for online privacy? Pledge your vote at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Kevin Grandia for Common Sense Canadian While you are out this weekend enjoying the last days of summer on the beach and the RCMP come
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Arstechnica: Videotron provoking net neutrality fight with unlimited music
Instead of giving Big Telecom giants the power to choose which online apps and services are more expensive, why don’t they treat all services equally? Let’s put Canadians in the driver’s seat – not these out of touch telecom giants. Article by Peter Nowak for Arstechnica Quebec wireless provider Videotron
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Barking Technology: Bell still claims to have a right to charge customers for a non-existent service
Bell is continuing to fight to charge customers for a 911 service that did not exist… Article by William Neilson for Barking Technology The Toronto Sun has a rather shocking story of Bell Canada’s continued fight to assert that they were legally allowed to charge customers a monthly fee for a 911 service that
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: National Post: How one guy tried to copyright a chicken sandwich. (With tomato, lettuce, garlic, and mayo)
On copyright crazy… Article by Roberto Fedrman, Washington Post In 1987, Norberto Colón Lorenzana had what we can all agree is a pretty unremarkable idea. Colón, who had just started working at a fast food joint called Church’s Chicken in Puerto Rico, suggested to his employer that they try adding
Continue readingOpenMedia.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
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Attentiv: The Anonymity Impossibility
Today, half of internet users are concerned about the amount of their personal information that is available there. But is it really possible to be completely anonymous online? Here are some answers and cool facts about the ‘anonymity impossibility’. Article by Attentiv Anonymity and information privacy are hot issues.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rabble: Fact-checking the Conservatives’ rural broadband strategy
The government’s rural broadband strategy falls way short of our digital platform and here’s why. We need to fight back by pledging to vote now at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Nora Loreto for Rabble.ca The 2015 federal election promises to be an ugly fight, with a lot of half-truths and fact
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: National Post: Public servant being investigated for writing and performing anti-Tory ‘Harperman’ song
An Ottawa federal scientist’s job is in danger after he recorded a song speaking out against the government’s politics of fear. Article by Kathryn May, Post Media News at the National Post An Ottawa federal scientist is being investigated for breaching the public service’s ethics code for writing and performing
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, August 28, 2015
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
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Straight: OpenMedia crafts plan to unshackle Internet with help of more than 250,000 Canadians
Do you want to know what our election platform is all about? Learn more here and pledge your vote for the Internet at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Charlie Smith for Georgia Straight And it says that it was compiled after crowdsourcing opinions from more than 250,000 people across the country. OpenMedia’s political
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Register: Canadians taking to spying on their spies
The Internet has changed Canadian politics. Issues like C-51 simply don’t go away. This election is our best chance to repeal C-51, pledge your vote at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Trevor Pott for The Register Comment As Canadians settle in for the longest general election campaign since 1867, some uncomfortable incidents that had
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How do you think the parties are doing when it comes to our Digital Future?
It’s a big day for our small team here at OpenMedia! This morning we’re unveiled our detailed election platform, packed with great ideas on restoring privacy rights (including repealing C-51), access to affordable Internet and cell phone service, and safeguarding free expression. Our whole team is excited: this morning marks
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, August 27, 2015
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
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Over 250,000 people shape action plan to save the Internet
ottawa_ourdigitalfuture.png Digital rights group OpenMedia releases comprehensive election platform packed with ideas crowdsourced from Canadians August 27, 2015 – It’s as if the entire city of London Ontario banded together to save the Internet. Shaped by more than 250,000 people and launching today, Canada’s Digital Future is a crowd-sourced election
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: How to protect yourself from ‘supercookies’ that track your data
For those of you concerned about phone carriers using ‘supercookies’ to track your data, here’s a piece from EFF with advice on how to protect yourselves. Article by Jacob Hoffman-Andrews for EFF Verizon users might want to start looking for another provider. In an effort to better serve advertisers, Verizon Wireless
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: WJS: Study Finds ‘Supercookies’ Used Outside U.S.
Bell Canada is one of the few carriers still using the evil ‘supercookies’ to track their customers. Thanks, Bell… Article by Elizabeth Dwoskin for WSJ Most major US wireless carriers are no longer using controversial identifiers that some researchers call “supercookies,” but their use appears to be extensive overseas. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: iPolitics: Top gun advocate turns on Tories, runs as Independent
Huge numbers of conservatives are speaking out against reckless Bill C-51. Despite Harper’s Conservatives’ efforts to keep the gun lobby in their camp, the sector warns about the dangerous power-grab this legislation gives the security sector, threatening Canadians’ privacy rights. Let’s keep fighting until we Kill C-51 –> KillC51.ca Article by Claire
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