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Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobby

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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Data collection, consent guidelines published by the OPC

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has unveiled a set of guidelines for getting meaningful consent to collect user data, as well as outlining six inappropriate uses of personal data on Thursday.

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Bains mum on if telecom concerns led to Aecon takeover denial

OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wouldn’t say Thursday whether concerns about the security of telecom networks played a part in the reason the federal government decided to block the acquisition of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese company.

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Motion seeking to enshrine net neutrality into law passes

A motion asking the government to consider enshrining the concept of net neutrality into law passed unanimously in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

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Christianne Laizner staying at CRTC for a full term

The CRTC’s vice-chairwoman of telecom, Christianne Laizner, will stay in her role for a full five-year term.

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Cogeco picks up 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz spectrum

Innovation Canada (ISED) released the results of its 2018 residual spectrum auction Friday, with Cogeco Inc. ending up as the big spender.

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Optics for gov’t could hamper tax on foreign ads proposal: Friends

OTTAWA — A media advocacy group calling for changes that would upend the ability for Canadian organizations to deduct taxes on foreign digital advertising admitted Tuesday that its proposal could face political challenges considering the government’s sensitivity to tax-related matters.

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Shaw touts 5G trial success

Shaw Communications Inc. said in a press release Tuesday that it has successfully completed its first 5G trial.

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CRTC approves Rogers’ disaggregated interconnection point in Ontario

The CRTC has approved, on a final basis, an application by Rogers Communications Inc. to add a disaggregated point of interconnection (POI) in Argentia, Ontario, for small providers to connect to incumbents’ networks for high-speed internet.

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Eastlink can’t stop serving new customers of small ISPs: CRTC

Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink has to keep provisioning new customers of Frontier Network Inc.’s two third-party internet access (TPIA) purchasers before a final decision is issued in a dispute between the two companies, the CRTC ruled in an interim decision on Thursday.

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