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Together with Ekō, the OpenMedia community is calling out Canada’s monopolies.
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Update: Bill C-10 has been replaced by Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act), for up-to-date information check out our latest blog "What's Wrong with Bill C-11: An FAQ". “CanCon” is Canadian content — TV ...
II. A narrow takedown duty to remove content their users report that appears to be child sexual or physical abuse related content, or nonconsensually shared adult material, within 24 hours; ...
Canada’s Internet status quo is a policy disaster. Basic, long overdue regulations to protect our online privacy and online safety keep failing in a distracted and disinterested Parliament. Real ...
Over the course of the last year, the federal government has tracked the location of 33 million mobile devices. Considering the size of Canada, that’s nearly everyone who owns a cellular device, even ...
It’s a crucial time for Canada’s political scene, and change is on the way. In this article, we’ll break down the recent political events Canada has faced, both at home and abroad, and look at what’s ...
Living in an increasingly digital world means that even if you’re not constantly on social media, much of your daily life still leaves an online footprint. Whether it’s your financial transactions, ...
The best thing about RightsCon is obviously meeting people, hearing about cool projects and having hour long discussions about the problems of international jurisdiction of the Internet… #nerd One of ...
February 3, 2011 – One would have thought that CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein was goading the over 400,000 Stop The Meter petition signatories as he testified before the Standing Committee on ...
1. Why should I worry about my face being captured and tracked? I have nothing to hide. Freedom from surveillance is not about having ‘something to hide’. It is about our right to personal privacy. We ...
It probably didn’t even take me a week to figure out that OpenMedia had culture of its own that would be hard to replicate elsewhere. Here at OM (that’s what we we call OpenMedia in OpenMedia-speak) ...