PSA: The Computer Maintenance Department Scam Calls
Have you been getting those calls from people working in a call center from what sounds like India? You know, those people who claim to be from either the ...
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Clarifying the Possible Canadian Surveillance Legislation
A report has surfaced that has received a fair bit of attention. The report suggests that Canada is facing a piece of internet surveillance legislation that would pretty much ...
Opposition to Canada’s Impending Surveillance Legislation Grows
The Canadian governing party - the Conservatives - are planning an omnibus crime bill that would include surveillance legislation. While the bill is not yet tabled, opposition to this ...
Report – CRIA Goes Through Name Change
It may have been the most controversial name in the entire copyright debate, but a report is saying that you won't be able to call it by its standard name ...
Canada’s Usage Based Billing Hearings Kicks Off
In a way, it's surprising that Canada is still talking about Usage Based Billing. Yet, here we are today with the CRTC (Canada's regulator for industries like this) holding ...
P0keu Dumps Usernames and Passwords of TamilCanadian.com to Pastebin
Another day, another database dump. This time, it's the user names and passwords of a website called TamilCanadian which appears to be a blog.
P0keu seems to be a peculiar ...
Anti-Surveillance Petition Strikes a Chord with Canadians
The Canadian government has gone through a 58 hour filibuster with regards to the Canada Post lockout. With this out of the way, some are fearing what ...
Editorial: Digesting the Canadian Election Results and Subsequent Possible Online Policy
Most Canadians and many around the world are waking up to the reality of what happened during the election - that is a Conservative majority government. The question remains, ...
PSN Outage: Day 10 – FBI, Congress and 22 State Attorneys General Get Involved
It is now day 10 of the infamous Sony PSN (PlayStation Network) outage. Already, 5 countries are involved including the US, UK, a city in China, Australia and Canada. ...
Canadian ISP Telus Plans “Customer Friendly” Data Caps
Telus spokesman Shawn Hall says that customers will get "lots of warning," and lots of opportunities to switch to more expensive data plans when it rolls out usage-based billing later ...
Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable: US Pulled the Strings in Previous Canadian DMCA
Wikileaks diplomatic cables are still being published on a regular basis. One of the recent cables relates to Canadian DMCA, not the last one, but Bill C-61 from 2008.
There ...
Canadian Political Parties Clarify Their Positions on Copyright
It'll be May 2nd when Canadians head to the polls, and the positions on copyright can be rather muddied at times. That makes the CCA posting on political parties ...
IMSLP Reinstated After Outrage Over Public Domain Controversy
Earlier, we reported that British sheet music organization MPA forced the IMSLP offline because they claimed a work that was in the public domain was still under copyright. ...
Pirate Party to Offer VPN to Protect Canadians from Conservative Majority
It's a service often used for dissidents in repressive regimes, but if a Conservative majority were to happen in the Canadian elections, the Pirate Party of Canada says they'll be ...
Canada’s Election: Is the iPod Tax a Non-Issue?
It's been often discussed on mainstream broadcasters news programs like CBC and CTV. It's even taken centre stage in a Conservative attack ad against all of his opponents. ...
Canada’s Election: A Review of the Pirate Party Platform on Digital Issues
We are reviewing party platforms for this years Canadian election. We've done all of the major political parties at this point in time, but it really seems necessary to ...
Canada’s Election: A Review of the Green Party Platform on Digital Issues
We have finished reviewing all the parties that were elected in office last session. The digital issues of all those parties were interesting, even if they were surprisingly disappointing. ...
Canada’s Election: A Review of the NDP Platform on Digital Issues
Our election coverage is continuing with the final party that held seats in parliament in the last session, the NDP. Just like the other parties, we are focusing on ...
Canada’s Election: A Review of the Bloc Platform on Digital Issues
We continue our platform election review on the Bloc Québécois party platform. As always, we are focusing specifically on copyright and privacy related issues.
We've already reviewed the ...
Canada’s Election: A Review of the Conservative Platform on Digital Issues
Recently, Canada was called in to an election. Now that all the political parties are on the campaign trail, what are they promising to those who watch the copyright ...
