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Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners September 1, 2010, Whitehorse, Yukon
Calls for greater openness and transparency are exerting increasing pressure on governments to transform their traditional, reactive information dissemination methods into a mode that facilitates proactive disclosure. Furthermore, governments around the world are recognizing the value of sharing information with the public in accessible, open formats. They understand that collaborating with citizens, businesses and non-government organizations to enrich their information resources improves communication channels, promotes citizen engagement, instils trust in government, fosters economic opportunities and ultimately results in more open and responsive democratic government.
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World Summit on the Information Society May 2005 - Canadian Civil Society Communique A consensus statement of the Canadian Civil Society group for the WSIS conference...
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Angus on Lawful Access: Serious Erosion of Privacy Rights Courtesy of Michael Geist:
Friday June 24, 2011
NDP MP Charlie Angus has sent a detailed letter to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews expressing concern about the return of lawful access legislation. Lawful access provisions are expected to be included in an omnibus crime bill to be introduced in the fall. Angus points to several key concerns, including mandatory disclosure of some personal information without court oversight:
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Privacy watchdog sounds alarm on Conservative e-snooping legislation Editorial cartoon by Brian Gable - Editorial cartoon by Brian Gable | The Globe and Mail
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Privacy watchdog sounds alarm on Conservative e-snooping legislation
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OTTAWA— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:50PM EDT
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The Harper government intends to make it easier for police to monitor Canadians’ Internet and smartphone activity – but the country’s privacy watchdog warned Thursday that Ottawa hasn’t justified what threatens to be an erosion of fundamental rights.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has confirmed in recent weeks that the Conservatives intend to revive legislation they did not manage to pass as a minority government – bills that would give police new capabilities to conduct electronic surveillance in the Internet age.
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Media Union recommendations to Senate Committee on Media A thoughtful submission from TNG Canada (The National Guild of Canadian Media, Manufacturing, Professional & Service Workers; commonly known as the Media
Union) to the Senate's Committee on Media.
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Remembering Media Democracy Day Strictly a Local Event Launched in 2001, Media Democracy Day was a call from a growing global media democratization movement that had its roots in Canada.
The first Media Democracy Day events were staged in Vancouver as a way to raise and spread awareness of the concentration of media ownership in that city and across the country, and the threat to the diversity of public voices such concentration pose
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CRTC comes down the middle on usage-based Internet billing The CRTC has struck a middle path in its reexamination of the controversial and complicated subject of usage-based billing for wholesale Internet services in Canada, rejecting BCE Inc.’s pricing proposal as well as the suggestions of most of the company’s most vocal critics.
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Internet belongs to us, U.S. argues The U.S. Congress is currently embroiled in a heated debated over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), proposed legislation that supporters argue is needed to combat online infringement, but critics fear would create the “great firewall of the United States.”
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