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Canada’s Expanding Revenge Porn Laws Could Threaten Journalistic Freedom
The only thing worse than revenge porn would be bad revenge porn laws.
Why Canada's Telecom Regulator Is Suddenly Acting More Like the Cops
We're officially in the middle of a crackdown.
Free Expression Has Trounced a Law Against Online Harassment in Canada
The Cyber-safety Act was passed in the wake of the highly-publicized death of Rehtaeh Parsons, who attempted suicide and later died after she was relentlessly harassed by her peers, who circulated a photo she alleged showed her being raped.
Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail
Canada’s chiefs of police are asking the federal government to expand warrantless access to telecommunications subscriber information, create a real-time information database, and allow them to open your letters.
Rehtaeh Parsons’ Death Inspired a Cyberbullying Law in Canada — But Does It Hurt Free Speech?
The case of two feuding businessmen, one alleging the other “cyber-bullied” him, is raising new questions about the broadness of Nova Scotia’s Cyber-Safety Act.
The Deep, Dark Web Is Getting Some Company Soon — From Canadian Cops
The government recently announced some $12 million for a dozen projects — everything from efforts to combat radicalization, defuse bombs, and a web crawler "to explore anonymous and dark regions of the internet."
Opposition Is Mounting Against the Conservatives’ Surveillance-Friendly Cyberbullying Bill
Bill C-13, which seeks to criminalize ‘revenge porn,' has been criticized roundly by lawyers, activists, journalists, NGOs, and even the families and survivors of cyberbullying themselves. None of this has done much to dissuade the Tories from pursuing...