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Jury out on what Digital Privacy Act does to privacy, copyright

News | 04/15/2014 5:09 pm EDT

The Digital Privacy Act, the government’s most recent attempt to update the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), has experts disagreeing about the effect it could have on disclosure of information by telecommunications companies and whether the legislation would open the door for “U.S.-style copyright trolls.”

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