Tag Archives: canada

Privacy Commission’s report on Facebook, their jurisdiction and findings

The report resulting from the privacy complaint against Facebook has just been released. Just like when the complaint was reported on slashdot, there’s a lot of hubbub about the complaint being accepted. Well, when you’re collecting information on Canadians, you ought to respect Canadian privacy law. Facebook has made a few changes to their privacy [...]

Making sense of Bell’s twitter charges

Image via CrunchBase Update April 8th 2009: There’s a Bell autodialer reporting that Twitter charges will be refunded. I’ve been experimenting with Twitter‘s resumed SMS service in Canada. Right now it only works with Bell Mobility and, well, I’m a Bell subscriber. Twitter claims the service is free but I quickly heard reports of fifteen [...]

Mailing campaign on Canadian net neutrality

I just realized that neutrality.ca is still updating, but it’s in chronological rather than reverse chronological order. Look at the bottom for new posts. The plan of defense right now appears to be writing to your MP (you can look up the appropriate mailing list based on your postal code) and the Minister of Industry [...]