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Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobby

News | 05/25/2018 12:33 pm EDT
Jim Balsillie, chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators, at the House ethics committee on May 10, 2018. / Hill Times photo by Andrew Meade.

A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is looking to create a national data strategy has registered to lobby the government after its co-founder Jim Balsillie told a House of Commons ethics committee this month that internet giants are engaging in “surveillance capitalism.”

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