Vice: Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail
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…
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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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…