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Huge public outcry succeeds in forcing FCC to back away from officially endorsing Big Telecom’s Slow Lane plan The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced this morning that it will push ahead ...
For years, our federal politicians have acknowledged that indiscriminate use of mass facial recognition technology was proliferating in Canada with no regulatory limits or control. But despite ...
"With legal options for content delivery on the upswing, effective tools for curbing piracy already in place, and illegal sharing on the downward slide, Bell's website blocking proposal is like using ...
We submitted input from nearly 4,500 people to the CRTC, urging the Commission to force Big Telecom to provide fibre wholesale access to indie ISPs!
The Internet has become so indispensable to modern life that it’s often joked about as the real foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, 1 nestled even below food, water, and shelter, nowadays.
Update: Bill C-10 has been replaced by Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act), for up-to-date information check out our latest blog "What's Wrong with Bill C-11: An FAQ".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 ...
OpenMedia’s Digital Action Team (DAT) is a community of people committed to taking regular actions to fight for an affordable, open, and surveillance-free Internet. It is a way for OpenMedia ...
Public interest groups, academics, and Canadians writ large are building a movement to stop online spying. This forum, which will focus on the dangers of invasive surveillance legislation, comes in ...
February 24, 2011 – CRTC staff have written to Rogers Communications regarding customer complaints that the major ISP has been slowing the speeds of “time sensitive audio [and] video traffic." This is ...
Le statu quo d’Internet au Canada est un désastre politique. Des réglementations de base, attendues depuis longtemps, pour protéger notre vie privée et notre sécurité en ligne continuent d’échouer ...
Together with Ekō, the OpenMedia community is calling out Canada’s monopolies.
Imagine that someone provides you two different options for keeping your online accounts safe. One of them significantly adds to the security of your account. The other actually puts you at elevated ...