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Bill C-10: An Urgent Update or a Free Speech Fail?

Bill C-10: An Urgent Update or a Free Speech Fail?

By Rachael Bradshaw on June 8, 2021 | Tagged with bill C-10, freedom of information, Freedom of Speech, laws, privacy

If you’ve been keeping up with Canadian digital privacy laws (or even if you haven’t), you might have seen posts online about Bill C-10. You know, the angry posts by concerned Canadians about their online freedom of expression? Yep, those are the ones. While Bill C-10 may have originally been born with the good intention […]

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Freedom of Information as Activism

Freedom of Information as Activism

By samantha summers on October 30, 2019 | Tagged with Activism, freedom of information

Bryan Short, a former contributor to the Digital Tattoo, spent the last year working for the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (F.I.P.A.). During Right to Know Week this year, the UBC iSchool hosted F.I.P.A. for an introductory workshop that teaches the fundamentals of requesting records from public bodies. In this blog post, Bryan […]

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How to Access Information Collected From Your Digital Accounts

How to Access Information Collected From Your Digital Accounts

By Jason Cheung on June 11, 2018 | Tagged with Access My Info, Citizen Lab, Data, Digital Security, freedom of information, Munk School of Global Affairs, Office of the privacy commissioner, PIPEDA, privacy, Privacy Act, terms and conditions, transparency

  Terms and Conditions – TL;DR: Take My Data Terms and conditions of use often bind users to agreements in unsuspecting ways about the use, storage, sale, transfer, and deletion of their account, data, or identity. Examples include popular software such as Twitter, which stipulates that they can profit from selling your pictures without prior […]

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