While we’ve all been distracted by the government’s bumbling overreach with Bill C-10, they’ve launched yet another attack on our online rights and freedoms: a Bell-backed proposal to give the ...
If you’ve been on social media recently, you may have seen all the buzz around the Internet Archive. Here's what's going down: for two years, Big Media publishers have been embroiled in a lawsuit ...
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 ...
Update: Bill C-10 has been replaced by Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act), for up-to-date information check out our latest blog "What's Wrong with Bill C-11: An FAQ".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 ...
This morning Motherboard reported explosive revelations on the RCMP’s use of Stingray devices – technically known as IMSI-catchers. Stingrays are devices about the size of a briefcase that simulate a ...
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 ...
The May 27 national Day of Action to stop website blocking from coming to Canada was a smashing success — and it couldn’t have happened without the hard work of people in the incredible OpenMedia ...
The head of Canada’s main gun lobby group — a group that the Harper government has carefully wooed for years — is breaking ranks and running as an Independent in the B.C. riding of Cariboo-Prince ...
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 ...
When you buy a smartphone or a laptop, that device should be completely yours; you ought to be able to do what you want with it. If you drop your phone off the fifth floor, and the screen breaks, you ...
Today, OpenMedia submitted over 5,000 comments as feedback to the government's draft policy direction on the implementation of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. You can view our full submission ...