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...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its various stakeholders, the commission chair said Monday. Vicky Eatrides was the opening speaker at the annual conference of the International Institute of Communications Canadian Chapter.
“A key...
While calling it an "improvement" over both the current existing private-sector privacy law and a "step...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communication continued its study of...
On the day the CRTC released its timeline for the public consultations that...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage upset members of that committee Monday. Clegg, president of global affairs for Meta Platforms Inc., had initially said he would show up to testify about Bill...
With Bill C-18, the Government's plan to have news...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the...
The chair of the Senate's Transport and Communications committee Tuesday expressed annoyance that as the...
Less than two months after the launch of an...
The government’s Online News Act will not regulate the media nor will it require internet users to pay...
Stakeholders who submitted responses to the federal government’s...
Senior executives of Alphabet Inc.’s Google appeared before the House of...
In a decision several years in the making, a Federal Court judge has rejected an application from Canada's federal privacy watchdog, which alleged that the social media giant had violated the Personal...
The Conservatives are keeping up their battle against the government’s online legislation, with a party critic seizing on the Liberals’ own answers to combat them. The...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions...
Canada's federal privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT...
Telus Corp. has gotten an extension -- though not as long as the company...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from...
Canadian carriers that offer fixed broadband services may soon be required to make service quality metrics during peak periods and typical download and upload speeds during...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
Execulink Telecom Inc. has withdrawn a Part 1 application before the CRTC...
Auditor General Karen Hogan released a quartet of reports on the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that...
The Competition Bureau Wednesday released its recommendations regarding...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop limiting consumer access to news links...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment...
A Toronto MP is looking to introduce legislation that will cover the use of office surveillance technology by employers. Liberal Michael Coteau conducted a survey a year ago...
The House of Commons Heritage committee voted Tuesday to summon top...
The Online News Act, Bill C-18, will “fundamentally change the...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides announced in a Wednesday press release that the...
While the letter from Heritage Minister Pablo...
The federal government Wednesday announced that the department of Canadian Heritage would be contributing some $1.2 million to a number of different initiatives around the country aimed at combating misinformation and disinformation.
The money will be spread across 16...
MISSISSAUGA – Criticism of Telus Corp.’s...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google was an island of defiance in a sea of praise for...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
Senators should use privacy provisions in the Telecommunications Act as a template for protecting users of online content, the Privacy Commissioner said. Philippe Dufresne was speaking to the Senate...
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online...
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, announced more than $2.4 million in funding for projects to help Canadians...
The removal of problematic content online remains...
Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...
Canada’s online harms panelists are looking at...
Rogers Communications Inc. believes that the site-blocking remedy the...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook have acknowledged that the companies have serious concerns about a pair of Government legislative efforts...
Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
Internet and criminal justice experts sounded the alarm on a proposed...
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...
The government placed legislation to change the Broadcasting Act on the...
Canada’s attempts to control internet content and online harms will be a...
OTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously Thursday...
The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner in its effort to combat online harms in five categories -- terrorist content, hate speech,...
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An organization with the aim of keeping an open and affordable internet is...