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US Subpoena: Twitter Does the Right Thing
Finally, something good to say about Twitter. Generally, I found the whole concept of Twitter — expressing yourself in 140 characters or less – awful, but now I think Twitter’s great. This is not...
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Social Media and Memory Ownership
I was reading Digg today to figure out whether or not I should join, and even just how to do it. It is not easy if you don’t have facebook, twitter, google accounts to link to. Digg wants you but...
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Secret Surveillance and Hereditary Kings: Putting a Check on Unlimited...
On Monday (March 23) a Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York reinstated a lawsuit by civil liberties and human rights groups, journalists, media organizations, labour unions and others who argue...
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About the Other Day: Lawful Access and ISPs in Canada
The other day I pounded away madly on the keyboard about global internet regulation. I was perturbed by the preliminary ‘e-G8′ meetings convened by President Sarkozy that seemed mostly designed to push...
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(Un)Lawful Access: Wiring Canada’s Networks for Control
The Conservative Government is off and running. A majority in hand, it is already driving through on its legislative agenda. An already in just the last week, we have seen several items of critical...
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The Twitter-Wikileaks Decision: How the Corporate Model of Internet Privacy...
Social media users of the world take note: according to a U.S. District Court‘s decision in the Twitter-Wikileaks case (November 9, 2011), you have no right to expect privacy online. The immediate...
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Voltage’s Teksavvy Subscriber Shakedown: What’s a Good ISP to do?
Tomorrow will be a big day in a federal court in Toronto. At 11am, the court will hear a motion by Voltage Pictures to have Canadian indy-ISP and darling of the open internet community, TekSavvy,...
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Voltage’s TekSavvy Subscriber Shakedown, Part II: Big Win for TekSavvy or...
Yesterday, a Federal Court in Toronto decided to postpone Voltage Picture’s motion to have TekSavvy divulge subscriber identities linked to 2000 IP addresses that Voltage claims have been used to share...
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