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[IP, Innovation and Culture] Really Setting the Record Straight on the ECPA: A Reply to ...: PIPEDA currently features a series of exceptions to the standard requirements for obtaining consent for the collection of personal information (found in Section 7). Bill C-27 includes a provision that bars those exceptions in cases involving computer harvesting of email addresses and the “collection of personal information through any means of telecommunication, if the collection is made by accessing a computer system or causing a computer system to be accessed without authorization.”  In other words, email harvesting and spyware would not be permitted and would not qualify for the PIPEDA exceptions found in Section 7.

[Michael Geist Blog] Michael Geist - Security vs. Privacy: Ottawa Citizen on Lawful Access: Clayton Pecknold: "How are we going to master identity theft, and how are we going to combat child pornography and sexual exploitation of children and Internet luring and all of these things that are going on in the digital world if we don't have the tools that are necessary?"

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Canadian musicians vs the CRIAA: It gives businesses the confidence they need to invest time and money, it enables them to generate revenues and profits from their creations, and makes it possible for them to employ Canadians. By extension, it also provides a foundation for the generation of government tax revenues and overall economic growth ”” functions that take on greater importance as Canada’s manufacturing base declines.

[Michael Geist Blog] Michael Geist - The Copyright Consulation: Five Weeks Left As ...: CRIA and CMPDA lobbyist Barry Sookman, in a National Post op-ed written with Stephen Stohn, labels Canada a piracy heaven while calling for "graduated response" (the euphemism for three strikes and a user loses Internet access for a year), anti-circumvention legislation, ISP liability, notice and takedown, .

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