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OPC appeals court Facebook decision
Internet and Governance | 05/15/2023 3:31 pm EDT
The federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner has filed notice that it intends to appeal last month's decision from the Federal Court striking down its challenge to Facebook's data collection practices.
In a notice of appeal filed with the court on Friday, the OPC...
Senators continue fight over Streaming Act and CBC’s future
Media | 02/08/2023 1:22 pm EST
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, continued in the Senate’s Question Period Tuesday. Senator Leo Housakos, the chair of the Transport and Communications committee, claimed that the CBC is going to move to an all-digital format.
“How...
Gov. announces $1.2m in misinformation research funding
Internet and Governance | 01/11/2023 3:22 pm EST
The federal government Wednesday announced that the department of Canadian...
Ministers vow to monitor American proposals on TikTok
Media | 12/15/2022 2:03 pm EST
The ministers most responsible for telecom and broadcasting policy in Canada are pledging to follow...
Senators add audience interest in broadcasting act objectives which could ease discoverability concerns
Media | 12/01/2022 1:40 pm EST
Senators voted to add a clause in Bill C-11, the...
CRTC must hold public hearings for interim exemption orders in Online News Act
Media | 11/29/2022 7:02 pm EST
The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the...
Rodriguez urges senators to pass Online Streaming Act
Media | 11/22/2022 8:17 pm EST
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the Senate Transport and Communications Committee wrapped up its hearings into the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11. The minister praised the committee, pointing out it has...
Broadcasters want policy direction on C-11; streamers want their algorithms left alone
Media | 09/15/2022 7:51 pm EDT
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
Gov. announced 11 projects, with $2.4M funding, to combat disinformation
Internet and Governance | 07/21/2022 4:11 pm EDT
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
Scott says platforms may be asked to ‘manipulate’ algorithms for Canadian discoverability
Media | 06/23/2022 10:49 am EDT
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
C-11 heads to Senate, over Conservative objections, after passing third reading in the House of Commons
Media | 06/21/2022 6:15 pm EDT
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
Gov. tables three-headed private sector privacy reform bill
Media | 06/16/2022 5:45 pm EDT
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
Scott is wrong to think the CRTC can handle C-11: former CRTC vice-chair; Unifor wants local news fund added
Media | 05/24/2022 5:44 pm EDT
Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...
Scott says CRTC will never regulate user-generated content under current Bill C-11
Media | 04/05/2022 3:30 pm EDT
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
Hate groups need legislative stops on fundraising, security committee hears
Media | 03/31/2022 7:50 pm EDT
Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds...
Bill C-11 a new bill with no new ideas, and a ‘legal pretzel’ for censorship: CPC
Media | 03/01/2022 5:05 pm EST
For the second time in the span of a year, the Liberal government has introduced a new bill to update Canada’s broadcasting act but “what it doesn't bring is new ideas,”...
Google says Canada pursuing unique approach to news compensation
Media | 02/23/2022 5:55 pm EST
Canada’s pending news media compensation legislation is based on key...
NDP and Bloc support C-11, with concerns; Conservatives will seek to amend at committee
Media | 02/17/2022 12:30 pm EST
Members of Parliament from the Bloc Québécois...
Witnesses raise issues with Senate bill restricting youth online access to porn
Internet and Governance | 02/10/2022 2:03 pm EST
Internet and criminal justice experts sounded the alarm on a proposed...
Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemption
Media | 02/02/2022 7:32 pm EST
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
New Broadcast Act update appears on order paper as Tories oppose move
Internet and Governance | 02/01/2022 6:05 pm EST
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the House of Commons order paper late Monday night, as Conservative Heritage critic John Nater called on...
B.C. Appeal Court rules provincial court has jurisdiction over defamation suit against Twitter
Media | 12/21/2021 2:56 pm EST
The Court of Appeal for British Columbia upheld a...
Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committee
Media | 12/13/2021 5:43 pm EST
OTTAWA – Veteran Liberal MP Hedy Fry was elected chair of the House of Commons committee on Canadian...
Successor bill to C-10 “absolute priority”, Rodriguez says
Media | 11/23/2021 11:50 am EST
Canadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez says revisions to the...
Broadcasting regulation debate at electoral standstill as advocates, industry react
Media | 09/14/2021 7:16 pm EDT
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
Ontario privacy watchdog says province should update privacy law, even without feds
Media | 09/07/2021 5:59 pm EDT
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...
Heritage launches consultation on digital platform revenue sharing for news sector
Media | 08/03/2021 6:03 pm EDT
Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news...
Senate begins C-10 analysis with broad debate
Media | 06/24/2021 10:41 am EDT
Senators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and...
NDP, advocates, call for action against exploitative content on porn sites; report heading to parliament
Media | 06/15/2021 5:07 pm EDT
Canada has laws that would hold companies...
C-10 headed to HoC; Bloc adds 5 year review of act
Media | 06/11/2021 6:10 pm EDT
A debate which Canadian Heritage Committee chair Scott Simms has jokingly said was “so exciting we could sell the rights to Netflix” has finally come to an end.
The committee completed its clause-by-clause review of Bill C-10 Friday afternoon, days after the House...
NDP says Libs are to blame for C-10 delays as HoC passes ‘gag order’
Media | 06/07/2021 6:26 pm EDT
The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois cooperated to pass a motion in the...
Judge grants Facebook evidence request in proposed class action
Media | 05/31/2021 6:05 pm EDT
A Quebec judge has ruled that Facebook Inc. can bring forward evidence the company believes will assist it in challenging a proposed class-action lawsuit. Facebook has been accused by an...
Conservative attempt to reintroduce C-10 social media exclusion fails
Media | 05/31/2021 5:48 pm EDT
The federal government’s Canadian Heritage Committee is holding firm on plans to subject social media to broadcasting regulations after it voted down a proposed amendment from the Conservative Party...
CRTC chair asserts personal preference for facilities-based competition
telecom | 05/20/2021 5:59 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
Heritage and Justice ministers to appear before CHPC to address charter concerns
Media | 05/10/2021 6:25 pm EDT
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee is moving forward with a charter review on Bill C-10, the revision to the Broadcasting Act, and will get answers from Heritage...
Libs now seek to restrict CRTC social media powers, Bloc says enough with filibustering
Media | 05/07/2021 6:39 pm EDT
After saying it would address concerns around...
Libs support C-10 charter review, but after full revision of bill: Dabrusin
Media | 05/03/2021 6:29 pm EDT
The Conservative party is “falsely accusing” the government of wanting...
Regulator needed to deal with tech-facilitated gender violence: report
Media | 04/30/2021 12:03 pm EDT
Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for...
Conservatives oppose C-10; watchdog Friends says criticism of exemption removal ‘overblown’
Media | 04/27/2021 2:56 pm EDT
The Conservatives “continue to oppose” Bill...
Heritage Committee strikes social media exemption from C-10; moves away from 7 year licence terms
Media | 04/23/2021 8:56 pm EDT
The House of Commons Heritage committee has moved...
Experts question effectiveness of online harm regulator
Media | 03/31/2021 6:03 pm EDT
Panelists reflecting Wednesday on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s...
Facebook’s Australian news blockade won’t deter us: Guilbeault
Media | 02/18/2021 4:50 pm EST
The day after Facebook Inc. made good on its threat to block all news from...
Bloc pushes for web giants to support Canadian media
Media | 02/17/2021 5:10 pm EST
The Bloc Québécois is pushing the federal government to take “urgent” action to support local media by imposing new taxes on web giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. In the House of Commons...
MPs highlight need for more regulation, enforcement of social media platforms in Canada
Media | 02/11/2021 5:23 pm EST
In a Friends of Canadian Broadcasting panel on Thursday, MPs from the three major parties indicated support for additional regulations and enforcement to manage threats of violence stemming from social media platforms. At the event, focused on protecting democracy in Canada, NDP MP Charlie Angus said that companies like Facebook Inc. have been cut too much slack, considering that numerous instances of political violence have stemmed from its platform in some capacity. “We asked...
Gov’t tables PIPEDA reform, new consumer privacy legislation
Media | 11/17/2020 5:54 pm EST
The federal government introduced sweeping private-sector privacy law...
OPC failed to observe ‘bedrock rules of evidence’ in court: Facebook
Media | 10/27/2020 10:33 am EDT
Facebook Inc. is asking a judge to throw out significant chunks of an...
Back to Parliament: your (pandemic) preview
Media | 09/22/2020 12:43 pm EDT
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
Canadian law should codify privacy as a human right: OPC
Media | 12/10/2019 6:05 pm EST
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters...
AIQ investigation shows need for strong privacy laws, OPC says
Media | 11/26/2019 6:22 pm EST
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia privacy commissioners presented the results of their investigation into AggregateIQ (AIQ) as an example of how investigations into companies can go — correctly — when commissioners have proper...
Facebook to lobby feds on digital services tax after election promises
Media | 11/21/2019 5:34 pm EST
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
Twitter lobbying on feds’ internet ad policy
Media | 11/18/2019 4:38 pm EST
Twitter Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on its internet advertising policy, following the social media company’s ban on political ads on its platform globally. The registration, effective November 1, seeks...
Green Party platform: no anonymous social media, 5G rollout on hold
telecom | 09/16/2019 5:14 pm EDT
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
‘Deepfakes’ could trigger election security alert, gov’t officials say
Media | 07/09/2019 4:50 pm EDT
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
Twitter bans pre-election political advertising
Media | 06/26/2019 6:20 pm EDT
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
International legislators flag regulatory options for data giants
Media | 05/29/2019 6:01 pm EDT
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options...
Gov’t needs interaction with tech specialists, conference hears
Media | 05/28/2019 4:43 pm EDT
OTTAWA — For the Canadian government to be more effective at legislating on issues including social media and internet of things (IoT) technology, it needs to communicate with technology specialists...
Tech giants agree to ‘voluntary’ set of principles: Gould
Media | 05/27/2019 5:45 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both signed on to a...
Experts say there is no road map for a Facebook-OPC court fight
Media | 05/01/2019 4:17 pm EDT
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal Court over the social media and data giant’s refusal to implement the office’s recommendations, the case will be the first of its kind — testing the limits of Canada’s privacy legislation,...
OPC will ask court to force changes to Facebook privacy practices
Media | 04/25/2019 5:47 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday it is...
Microsoft adds elections to lobbying file
telecom | 04/24/2019 6:29 pm EDT
The tech giant Microsoft Corp. last week added “elections” to its lobbying files. The move comes as the government rolls out a new regime governing the selling of political ads on tech platforms ahead of this fall’s...
Twitter registers social media education on lobby files
Media | 04/15/2019 4:05 pm EDT
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
Google won’t run political ads in 2019 election
Media | 03/05/2019 4:01 pm EST
Alphabet Inc.’s search giant Google plans to ban political advertising from its platforms during the next federal election campaign in Canada, following the introduction of tougher political advertising transparency rules by...
Facebook ‘not aware’ of Canadian applicants for data research program
Media | 03/01/2019 1:41 pm EST
Despite heightened interest in the impact of social media on Canadian elections, Facebook Inc. said it has not heard of any Canadian institutions that have applied to view the social media giant’s data sets. Facebook has been embroiled in controversy over its data practices. Last year, it partnered with a commission of senior academics, known collectively as Social Science One, to share its data sets with the goal of studying the role of social media in elections and democracy. But in...
Gov’t trending toward requiring online platforms to remove content: Gould
Media | 02/27/2019 10:32 am EST
OTTAWA -- Democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said the government...
Majority supports fining social media for not removing fake news: CIRA poll
Media | 02/19/2019 4:50 pm EST
A majority of Canadian internet users say the federal government should impose fines or other sanctions on social media companies that don’t remove fake news from their platforms, according to...
Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radio
Media | 02/04/2019 12:00 pm EST
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
Ottawa taps team to warn of foreign digital interference in elections
Media | 01/30/2019 3:49 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and...
Be ‘wary’ of regulating online speech: Facebook
Media | 01/22/2019 5:57 pm EST
While online misinformation needs to be taken seriously, that doesn’t...
CRTC tells wireless providers to offer message relay services
Media | 12/14/2018 3:27 pm EST
Wireless operators will have to begin offering message relay services (MRS) by June 2019, the CRTC said Friday. Message relay serves customers with a hearing or speech disability by allowing them...
Ethics committee calls for new social media rules
Media | 12/11/2018 7:27 pm EST
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...
Election 2019 still ripe for opinion-shaping, CSE says
Media | 12/06/2018 3:46 pm EST
OTTAWA — Efforts to stanch online misinformation campaigns will not eliminate the very real situation that may see Canadians fall victim to attempts to influence their political opinions, the...
Ontario’s increasing social media advertising worries AG
Media | 12/05/2018 5:25 pm EST
Ontario’s auditor general is raising concerns about a legal "loophole" that allows for partisan government advertising, after the province’s digital ad spending jumped for a third year in a row.
Ad buys on social media platforms peaked at $5.95 million this year,...
Public Policy Forum to track online disinformation
Media | 11/29/2018 3:13 pm EST
Ottawa-based think tank the Public Policy Forum says it’s launching a new project to track, analyze and eventually find a way to counter "fake news." It’s digital democracy project will start by studying the effects of...
Elections commissioner expects ‘very positive’ relations with tech giants in 2019
Media | 11/22/2018 4:50 pm EST
OTTAWA — Canada’s elections commissioner said...
Political parties ‘bumbling rubes’ on data: CPC campaign chair
Media | 11/20/2018 4:58 pm EST
OTTAWA — The head of the Conservative Party’s 2019 national election...
Ottawa paid $2K settlement after consulate shared copyrighted image
Media | 11/16/2018 5:11 pm EST
The federal government paid a $2,000 settlement to a Barrie, Ontario photographer, according to the 2018 public accounts, because bureaucrats shared a copyrighted image on a government Facebook page....
Facebook to cooperate with French regulators on pilot project
Media | 11/13/2018 4:26 pm EST
The French government will work with Facebook Inc. on a new initiative to help stamp out hate speech, French president Emmanuel Macron announced Monday.
He said Facebook will “host a delegation of French regulators who will have as their objective to work hand-in-hand...
Zuckerberg declines joint Canada-UK committee appearance
Media | 11/07/2018 1:50 pm EST
Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a joint-request by...
Most Canadians concerned with ‘fake news’ in next election: MTM
Media | 10/30/2018 5:55 pm EDT
A year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are...
Google Canada on the defense over Google+, Sidewalk Labs
Media | 10/23/2018 5:57 pm EDT
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...
OPC inquiring about Google+ leak
Media | 10/10/2018 2:34 pm EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said it is gathering more information about whether the personal information of Canadians was implicated in a leak involving an Alphabet Inc. social network. “Google has contacted...
Facebook launches political campaign security pilot
Media | 09/18/2018 3:52 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. will introduce a pilot project aimed at securing election campaigns for the United States midterm elections this fall. The company said in a blog post that past elections have shown that candidates, politicians...
Facebook to fact-check photos, videos
Media | 09/17/2018 11:11 am EDT
Facebook Inc. is adding verification of photos and videos to its fact-checking of content on its social...
Facebook makes Watch video service available world-wide
Media | 08/30/2018 4:33 pm EDT
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
Social media threats challenge gov’t, platforms ahead of election
Media | 08/30/2018 3:12 pm EDT
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
72% of anglophone Canadians on social media: MTM
Media | 08/10/2018 12:36 pm EDT
According to a recent report from the CBC/Radio-Canada Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project, 72 per cent of English-speaking Canadians have used a social networking service in the past month, with just over half of those using more than three. These findings are included in a report published on Wednesday, and it also found that anglophone social network users self-report that they use the internet 28.6 hours in a typical week, compared to the 25.6 hours of the average English speaking Canadian internet user. Users of Reddit Inc.’s platform reported spending significantly more time...
Twitter lobbying on online ads in wake of proposed elections bill
Media | 07/09/2018 1:17 pm EDT
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
Petition calls for empowered agency to compel deletion of false ads
telecom | 06/20/2018 6:10 pm EDT
Thousands of Canadians have signed separate petitions created by Democracy Watch, with one calling for a strengthening of the elections law body that could compel media sites to remove false ads....
Canadians using multiple devices, but adoption leveling off: MTM
Media | 06/08/2018 6:29 pm EDT
According to the latest data from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) project, 35 per cent of English-speaking internet users in Canada continue to own four types of electronic...
Too many emergency alerts could lead to ignorance: telecom consultant
Media | 06/06/2018 12:14 pm EDT
TORONTO — An amber alert that resulted in three emergency texts sent to...
Corus set to launch short-form content series on Twitter
Media | 06/01/2018 4:59 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. is partnering with Twitter Inc. to bring short-form “premium content” on the social media platform.
The content will be published by Corus’ social studio so.da and will include food, entertainment and pop culture, all catered to a...
AggregateIQ denies whistleblower claims to ethics committee
telecom | 04/24/2018 5:39 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The heads of West Coast-based software developer AggregateIQ...
Changes coming to Facebook advertising programs: eMarketer
Media | 04/23/2018 8:36 pm EDT
Advertisers on Facebook Inc. should expect changes — like less reliance on third-party data and better consent tools — to the platform after the privacy breach revelations this spring, says...
MPs unsatisfied with Facebook testimony, mull further regulations
Media | 04/19/2018 4:51 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Testimony from Facebook Inc. representatives at the House ethics...
MPs critical about Facebook contact ahead of committee appearance
Media | 04/18/2018 1:39 pm EDT
Facebook Inc.’s attempt to reach out to members of the Parliamentary...
Facebook data leak could affect Canadian elections: Therrien
Media | 04/17/2018 5:03 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics...
Data of over 600K Canadians swept up in Facebook data scandal
Media | 04/04/2018 6:34 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. released its estimates of how many people were affected by...
Data breach notification rules coming Nov. 1
Media | 04/04/2018 1:41 pm EDT
The federal government has announced that mandatory breach notification rules found in the 2015 Digital Privacy Act will come into force Nov. 1 this year, according to an order-in-council dated March 26. As originally reported...
Questions remain about CSE public info use, Cambridge Analytica
Media | 03/23/2018 10:46 am EDT
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan couldn’t tell MPs or reporters...
OPC investigating Facebook as gov’t responds to privacy concerns
Media | 03/21/2018 6:20 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used inappropriately for political purposes are now being formally investigated by the privacy...