The world is abuzz with privacy news this month. So much so that I spent a morning last week being interviewed by every CBC Radio station in British Columbia. What’s up with that? You got me, they like their privacy in BC I guess. But I’m even making it into the francophone media! So let’s dive in with all the privacy news du jour.
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This was a bad month to be an internet pirate in Canada
Arrrrrghh you a pirate? It’s all bad news from here.
Surprise! Canada has had a Right To Be Forgotten all along!
Oh Office of the Privacy Commissioner you scamp! Look what you’ve gone and done now.
Happy holidays AM.com readers! Let’s get the F away from this year already
Look, I personally had a decent year in 2017. I taught Cybersecurity and Privacy at McGill’s Faculty of Law for the first time, I had plenty of work, I had a few good whiskeys, and all in all I can’t complain. But holy fuck those poor kids down below the 49th stuck in Trump hell. And SO MUCH sexual harassment. Not to mention some very sad passings, like Gord Downie, Tom Petty, Berry, Benson, a Batman and a Bond.
But fuck it. We’re still here, life goes on, and it can’t get much worse than this. As I predict every year, I am sure this internet thingy will take off in 2018. With net neutrality FFS.
Anyway, thanks for reading Steve. Thanks mom for editing. Thanks to the rest of you for popping in from time to time.
Happy holidays!
You can go ahead and send those text messages to your drug dealer (maybe)
Well that’s good news I guess? Two very important cases came out of the Supreme Court a couple of weeks ago. And while technically they are not internet law cases, and I write a blog about internet law, they are huge privacy cases. And I teach privacy! So I guess I should read them and write about them.
We have Freedom on the Net in Canada; lots of countries not so lucky
Once again this year I authored the Canada Report for Freedom House‘s Freedom on the Net 2017. It’s worth saying (as I did last year) how much I think it’s an honour to do so. But it’s easy to establish that we are pretty lucky in Canada in comparison to a lot of places. Let’s take a look at how much it sucks to be in…
California Court to Supreme Court of Canada: F*** You (I’m paraphrasing)
In July of 2014, I wrote a post that was entitled This hugely important Google case will be going on for a while…. Well it’s more than 3 years later, and it’s still going on. I am psychic!
Clearly Unconstitutional Anti-Spam Law Declared Constitutional
Clearly free expression
I’ve got some catching up to do in my posts. I’m on fire now! Three in two weeks! (-ish).
Quebec to tax every seller on the internet?
I know what you’re saying – 2 posts in 3 days? Is Allen ill? It’s possible. But my physical and / or mental state notwithstanding, this is juicy and I had to write about it.
Yahoo! My job is in jeopardy, part deux
/ checks date of last blog post.
Oooh boy.
Facebook won’t like this and my job is in jeopardy – thanks, Supreme Court!
Mmm, that’s good irony
Oh Supreme Court, you’ve gone and done it now.
Notices! Online Pics! YouTube! It’s the Canadian internet law jurisprudence month in review
mmm, dusty
The month of May 2017 will go down in the annals of internet law history for having not one, not two, but five (three, sir!) three cases of note about internet law in Canada. Well, maybe not “of note”, but noteworthy. Oh crap, I just looked and one of the cases is actually from April. Well this is starting poorly.
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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.
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