The Canadian government has taken the first step towards creating new privacy rights for people in Canada. After a failed attempt in 2020 and three years of inaction since the proposal of the digital ...
An alarming number of privacy violations are coming from just one sector of our digital economy. Enabled and empowered by weak privacy laws, these organizations are taking advantage of the Internet by ...
It’s been called the “Most dangerous Canadian Internet bill you’ve never heard of”. But some folk will tell you it’s just a common sense approach to protecting kids — and who could say no to that! So ...
This week, OpenMedia submitted a brief to Canada’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU), re: the Canadian Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. You can read the full brief here.
The Link Tax can sometimes be confused with the Streaming Tax, another one of Guilbeault's harebrained policies he's pushing forward at the same time. If you have a question about the Streaming Tax, ...
Our government just unveiled a cynical plan to make Canada’s Internet one of the most censored and surveilled in the democratic world. It’s a classic bait and switch; using our real frustration with ...
Update: Bill C-10 has been replaced by Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act), for up-to-date information check out our latest blog "What's Wrong with Bill C-11: An FAQ".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 ...
Jenna is the Senior Campaigner at OpenMedia, an internet governance enthusiast and a public policy nerd. Her interests intersect the technicality of internet technology and public participation in ...
A version of this article by our Laura Tribe was originally published by Common Ground magazine, and by Rabble.ca. You may not be aware that a device named after an unusual sea creature poses a ...
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As you may recall, Bell Canada is appealing an important January 2015 CRTC ruling that prohibited telecom companies from exempting certain services from data caps in order to discriminate against ...
This is a huge win for Canadian Internet users and businesses. As many of you will recall, in late 2014, OpenMedia delivered crowdsourced input from over 30,000 Canadians as part of the hearing that ...