Site Blocking for Fun and Profit
In which we begin to try to catch up on [/checks date] 9 months of internet law developments. How does this writing thing work again?
Allen
Mendelsohn
is me.
I am a lawyer specializing in internet law working out of Montreal, though sometimes I do it in front of the U.S. Capitol. That should tell you what you need to know about internet law in Canada. I also warp young legal minds at the Faculty of Law at McGill.
More about meTweets! From Me!
"...collecting customer email addresses at store checkouts for providing... an electronic copy of their receipt.... However, the encoded email addresses, along with high-level details about each customer’s in-store purchases, were also sent to Meta." Not great @HomeDepotCanada!
Home Depot failed to obtain customer consent before sharing personal data with Meta
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2023/nr-c_230126/
My grades for #internet #law @LawMcGill have been submitted! The hot essay topics (students can choose _anything_) were video game loot boxes (2 essays) and #deepfakes (FOUR essays!!)
Internet + news + government = profit?
Hey-o! It’s your friendly neighbourhood internet law commenter, back after a flurry of year-end posts to his much more normal one post every 3 months schedule. But with the government proposing a “law” about the “internet” I guess I really need to write about that. Let’s get news-y!
Happy (?) Data Privacy Day / Week / Month / Millenium
Oh hai! Still a couple of hours left to celebrate #DataPrivacyDay, #DataPrivacyCentury, or whatever. Meh, privacy. Who needs it.
I keed. YOU need privacy of course! Keep the man off your data. To celebrate, go ahead and watch me in the video above, giving a talk about, I dunno, privacy or something. It’s been a whirlwind #DataPrivacyWeek for me, being an expert and so forth I am in demand! Above was the talk I gave at McGill. Besides the terrible “uh’s” and “um’s”, it’s not too bad! And a good summary of what’s coming in Quebec’s new privacy law, and how it helps you. Enjoy! Slides here to download if you really can’t get enough of me. Now go be private.
It’s that privacy holiday time of year!
Two posts in a Beatles-esque 8-day week? It’s a Festivus miracle!!!
RANDOM TAG OF THE DAY
ALL THE TAGS
4/20 is like Christmas and New Year's Eve rolled into one
125 posts over the years and this is my first trademark tag
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all lawyers are bitches so maybe I should have used "bitchslap"
All your internets belong to us
apple is the new microsoft for lawsuits
arrrrr pirates
back in paint it black
Basstral? Assell?
BLOCK THIS
distinct society
Do ACTA accordingly
domain name this!
don't you...forget about me
downloading
elect me for king of the internet
excerpt this
facebook
FFS get some first-run movies Netflix
free speech ain't always free
Happy Holidays kidzzzz!
How do I not have a "news" tag?
I don't have a European internet law category
I don't have a hockey tag?
I got yer constitution right here pal
i hope you notice this tag
In Canada ISP stands for Internet Suckiness Providers
I need to be regulated
I saw Zuckerberg at SXSW once and it wasn't pretty
Is fair dealing really fair?
is my kill bill series a violation of tarantino's copyright?
lock up all the violent criminals
me me me
micro$oft
mmm mashed potatoes
oh say can you crtc
PIPASOPA_OPA!
privacy
private parts
Protecting children good spying bad
put it in neutral
rogers v bell: which is worse
Roos and koalas and wallabees oh my!
see_are_tee_see?
serve me... a beverage
spam spam spam eggs sausage and spam
surveil this
Teh Google will outlive us all
text this
The Commish
The George Laraque Teksavvy ad is the greatest commercial ever
the law is the law
the music in Atari was never copyrightable
The Pacific is huuuuuuge
the Revolution will be televised... on Periscope
This is as close as we'll get to Sexy Friday around here
this may be my snarkiest post ever
those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves
Throttle this Bell
Throttle this Rogers
torrent(-ial downpour of copyright violation)
Tough to stay Anonymous forever but these guys have a real chance
trademarks blech
trade this
tRump loves Adderall
tweet this
welcome
whatever you do don't cross the streams
What happens online in Vegas doesn't stay there
why internet law is important to YOU
wide world of interwebs
Yahooooooooo
you can use my personal info I really don't care
your privacy is not yours
YouTube is my favourite tube of all the intertubes
Zoom on PBS was a big part of my childhood