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Google and federal government reach deal over Online News Act
Internet and Governance | 11/29/2023 7:51 pm EST
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their dispute over the Online News Act, with the tech giant agreeing to annually compensate news organizations $100 million and continue sharing Canadian news content on its platforms.
Heritage minister...
Canadian Heritage proposes Online News Act regulations, Meta’s not interested
Internet and Governance | 09/01/2023 5:59 pm EDT
Canadian Heritage announced its proposed regulations to implement the Online News Act, shedding some light on what platforms and news organizations can expect from the...
Facebook’s refusal to send witnesses angers Heritage committee
Internet and Governance | 05/08/2023 5:41 pm EDT
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
Consultation will be held for exemption under Bill C-18, committee votes down amendment to force negotiation with all outlets
Media | 11/25/2022 4:56 pm EST
The committee studying the Online News Act...
Tories slow down C-18 clause-by-clause consideration with amendments
Media | 11/22/2022 3:23 pm EST
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
Facebook denounces Online News Act as it finally appears at committee
Media | 10/28/2022 6:02 pm EDT
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against...
Facebook threatens to leave Canada, MP wants it to testify on C-18
Media | 10/25/2022 4:08 pm EDT
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that it has not been called to testify about the Online News Act that it is considering halting the...
Heritage committee opens hearings on news compensation legislation
Internet and Governance | 09/23/2022 5:56 pm EDT
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
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...
Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee
Media | 05/13/2022 5:12 pm EDT
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Facebook doesn’t rule out blocking news content if C-18 passes, docs reveal telecom opposition to online harms framework
Internet and Governance | 04/26/2022 5:43 pm EDT
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
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...
Court rejects BCCLA request to intervene in OPC v. Facebook court case
Media | 12/10/2021 1:20 pm EST
A Federal Court judge has denied an application by the British Columbia...
Competition Bureau takes part in global summit on digital marketing
telecom | 11/29/2021 4:19 pm EST
Canada’s Competition Bureau is joining with 10 other nations for a Monday...
NDP’s McPherson moves to deputy Heritage critic, Masse remains with Innovation, gets deputy
Media | 10/29/2021 2:47 pm EDT
Two new faces will be stepping into critic roles...
NDP MP wants Libs to take Facebook to task over whistleblower claims
Media | 10/18/2021 6:30 pm EDT
NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the incoming Liberal cabinet to “rethink their badly-flawed handling of the big tech file,” after whistleblower Frances Haugen released...
Federal Court judge strikes elements of key-OPC affidavit in Facebook case
Media | 06/16/2021 5:02 pm EDT
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...
News advocacy group calls for action on content compensation legislation
Media | 06/09/2021 5:33 pm EDT
A group representing news outlets in Canada has put out a call to Premier...
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...
Heritage committee wants Zuckerberg’s answers
Media | 03/29/2021 7:53 pm EDT
During a hearing on Facebook, Inc.’s relationship with the federal government Monday, multiple members...
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 being shared on its platform within Australia, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault denounced the...
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...
Court should strike portions of OPC affidavit: Facebook
Media | 01/21/2021 6:30 pm EST
On the second day of a preliminary hearing into a dispute between Facebook and the federal privacy watchdog Thursday, the social media giant presented arguments to a Federal Court judge that the court...
Facebook, OPC square off in court over Cambridge Analytica report
Media | 01/20/2021 5:05 pm EST
The motto of Facebook Inc. is, famously, "move fast and break things." ...
Sales tax for foreign digital services coming July 1
Media | 11/30/2020 6:07 pm EST
The federal government plans to begin imposing sales taxes on foreign digital services on July 1, 2021...
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...
Production sector to receive $50M in gov’t insurance support
Media | 09/25/2020 4:52 pm EDT
Independent producers will be able to access a $50 million insurance...
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...
Guilbeault doubles down on web giant legislation plans
Media | 09/03/2020 5:06 pm EDT
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Wednesday denounced what he called...
Facebook to pay $9 million to Competition Bureau after investigation
telecom | 05/19/2020 4:19 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. must pay a $9 million penalty to the Competition Bureau after making "false or misleading claims" about the privacy of personal information on the main Facebook platform and its Messenger app, according to a Tuesday release from the Competition Bureau. The social media giant will also pay $500,000 to the bureau for the cost of the investigation, which took place between 2012 and 2018. The investigation found that despite telling users they could control who had access to...
Facebook targets procedural fairness at OPC in court filing
Media | 04/27/2020 5:16 pm EDT
Facebook Inc.'s request that Federal Court throw out a report from the...
OPC takes Facebook to Federal Court
telecom | 02/06/2020 2:17 pm EST
The Office the Privacy Commissioner has filed a much-anticipated notice of application in Federal Court...
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...
Quebec news funding will help with Google, Facebook dominance: Le Devoir
Media | 10/15/2019 5:56 pm EDT
As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth of tax credits it pledged to news media, the Quebec government has unveiled a newspaper assistance...
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...
Privacy should be considered in competition decisions, conference hears
Media | 05/31/2019 7:17 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The concept of privacy should factor more prominently in competition law when it comes to regulating social media and big data, a conference heard on Thursday. “Users need to be able...
Data anonymization network launches amid privacy concerns
Media | 05/31/2019 6:24 pm EDT
A consortium of data stewards launched an informal network last week that looks to promote the anonymization of personal information in Canada in the wake of data privacy concerns sweeping 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...
Facebook sets higher standards in guidelines than laws: Chan
Media | 05/10/2019 6:09 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
OPC will file suit against Facebook before election: Commish
Media | 05/08/2019 1:27 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner plans to file in Federal...
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...
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...
Facebook forms team for advice on ad registry
Media | 03/18/2019 2:39 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. will solicit the advice of an advisory group as part of its effort to ensure its ad registry captures key issues leading to the 2019 federal election. The group of five will include former NDP deputy leader Megan Leslie, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Ray Novak, University of Manitoba’s Ry Moran, McGill University’s Antonia Maioni, and University of Victoria professor David Zussman, it said in a Monday press release. The company announced in the release details of its “Ad Library,” which intends to fulfill a legal requirement under elections...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 his office has nurtured a good relationship with employees of the tech giants and doesn’t expect that to deteriorate going...
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...
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...
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...
MPs call on Zuckerberg to testify to international committee on ‘fake news’
Media | 10/31/2018 7:45 pm EDT
MPs in Canada and the United Kingdom have stepped up their efforts to get the chance to grill Facebook Inc.’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a parliamentary committee hearing. The chairs of two...
Facebook warns of massive security breach, affecting 50M accounts
telecom | 09/28/2018 5:10 pm EDT
Almost 50 million Facebook user accounts have been affected after hackers...
OPC to seek court reference on search engine delisting
telecom | 09/27/2018 5:39 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he plans to...
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...
Canadian privacy watchdogs urge privacy laws for political parties
Media | 09/17/2018 2:01 pm EDT
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs collectively...
Class action filed against Facebook over Android metadata collection
Media | 09/17/2018 12:35 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it handles user privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal – this time,...
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...
New party, fresh faces on Heritage could shake up Parliament
Media | 09/14/2018 5:16 pm EDT
As politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...
Facebook sues BlackBerry for voice, security tech
telecom | 09/05/2018 5:38 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. filed a suit against BlackBerry Ltd. Tuesday accusing the device-maker of allegedly infringing on six of its patents, including voice messaging technology and security components, following BlackBerry’s suit...
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...
Facebook to fact-check Canadian news posts
Media | 06/27/2018 3:46 pm EDT
Facebook Inc.’s social media service will list lower on the newsfeed news items — and notify Canadians who share them — which are determined to be untrue, according to a release on Wednesday.
This coincides with the launch of a fact-checking effort being led by...
EU committee approves internet filtering copyright directive
Media | 06/20/2018 4:43 pm EDT
A European Union committee has approved a controversial copyright directive that critics say could interfere with the sharing of online content. At issue are two articles under the directive. The...
Ethics committee wants political parties to come under privacy legislation
Media | 06/19/2018 1:20 pm EDT
Following nine public meetings that began in March, the House committee...
Lack of cybersecurity framework mind-boggling: Telus exec
telecom | 06/04/2018 8:09 pm EDT
TORONTO — A security executive at Telus Corp. told an industry conference...
There’s space for ‘positive’ political targeting, Wylie tells MPs
Media | 05/30/2018 1:43 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Whistleblower and data scientist Christopher Wylie testified at...
Balsillie-led Centre for Digital Rights registers to lobby
Media | 05/25/2018 12:33 pm EDT
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
Security, data concerns drive two-phone phenomenon: Bell CEO
Media | 05/16/2018 11:16 am EDT
As stories about security and personal data breaches make the headlines,...
MPs hear about ‘surveillance capitalism,’ Google data use
Media | 05/11/2018 11:32 am EDT
OTTAWA — Two sides of the data-use debate squared off at the House ethics...
Don’t allow social media data use by political parties: professor
Media | 04/27/2018 4:11 pm EDT
OTTAWA — There is no reason for political parties to be using social...
Senate committee to look into issue of tax on foreign ads
Media | 04/24/2018 5:58 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The chairman of the Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday that he will look to hold hearings on the possibility of taxing advertising on non-Canadian internet platforms.
“What I will undertake is that we will...talk about hearings that...
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...
Facebook to register to lobby
Media | 04/23/2018 5:08 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. will add itself to the federal lobbyist registry, the company said after its head of public...
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 committee Tuesday that the data of the roughly 620,000 Canadians used by Cambridge Analytica could theoretically be used to influence a Canadian election, and called for more oversight of data use by...
OPC joins B.C. privacy commish in investigation of West Coast data company
telecom | 04/06/2018 1:47 pm EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will participate in an investigation into the activities of AggregateIQ Data Services Ltd. according to a post on its website on Thursday....
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...
Facebook talks election security after tough week
Media | 03/29/2018 5:52 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. announced a series of new measures to harden the platform against misinformation Thursday, saying it has needed to ban a Macedonia-based ring spreading fake news during the late 2017 Alabama senate race, and will now...
Negative views of Facebook up after data scandal: Angus Reid
Media | 03/26/2018 5:10 pm EDT
Over the last month, the number of people who hold an unfavourable public...
Ontario private sector data law timely: MPPs
telecom | 03/23/2018 5:20 pm EDT
An Ontario lawmaker is pushing for consent-based privacy legislation focused on governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the private sector. On Wednesday, the Personal Information Protection Act...
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...
Treat Facebook as broadcaster in 2019 election: professor
Media | 03/14/2018 5:35 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Treating social media companies, such as Facebook Inc., as broadcasters could help keep them in line with election regulations and curb unwanted influences resulting from unbalanced perspectives, a law professor at the University of Ottawa argued Wednesday....
BlackBerry targets Facebook with patent infringement lawsuit
telecom | 03/06/2018 4:38 pm EST
Citing its early developments in timestamp interfaces, encryption...
Ian Morrison steps down from watchdog Friends
Media | 02/12/2018 1:27 pm EST
Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...
CRTC asks digital giants for info, promises confidentiality
Media | 02/05/2018 2:02 pm EST
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information...
As its TV ad revenue drops, Corus says ad tech is the future
Media | 01/10/2018 6:05 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...
Automated advertising set to grow in Canada: report
Media | 12/19/2017 3:22 pm EST
Canadian programmatic digital ad spending will account for two-thirds of display advertising by 2018, says a recent report from market research company eMarketer Inc. released on Tuesday. Programmatic ads are purchased and placed using automated technology and often rely on user data to optimize the level of impressions, according to analysts at eMarketer. They are quickly becoming the most popular way for companies to connect with potential customers as they’ve been embraced by large internet companies like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, says eMarketer. This is evident in...
Quebec commits $36m for newspapers’ move to digital
Media | 12/05/2017 2:53 pm EST
In a release on Monday, the Quebec government announced $36.4 million over five years in new investments supporting the province’s print media moving to digital. Announcing the funding over a Facebook Inc. livestream, Quebec...
Facebook names new Canadian division head
Media | 11/22/2017 4:08 pm EST
Facebook Inc. has named Garrick Tiplady its new managing director of Facebook Canada and Instagram...
Tech giants increasing grip on advertising in Canada: report
Media | 11/21/2017 3:57 pm EST
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...
Lack of incentive undermines privacy protection tech: OPC
Media | 11/15/2017 6:55 pm EST
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has released an analysis of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), but cautions that there are still challenges for the adoption of practises...
Facebook to test more transparent ads in Canada
Media | 10/30/2017 5:01 pm EDT
Canada will be the testbed for Facebook Inc.’s new advertising transparency policies, according to a...
How big a threat are OTT sports services?
Media | 10/10/2017 5:55 pm EDT
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
Facebook launching tool to help ID fake news
Media | 10/05/2017 4:11 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. is testing a feature to provide context to the many news reports often shared through the...
Facebook to hand over Russia ads to Congress
Media | 09/22/2017 2:25 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. will cooperate with the U.S. Congress on its investigation into Russian meddling in the...
Facebook use well ahead of other social networks: MTM
Media | 09/20/2017 4:18 pm EDT
Despite the abundance of social media platforms in existence, Facebook Inc.’s popularity among anglophone Canadians stands head and shoulders above other options, according to a new Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report.
MTM, a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, reported...