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Feb 22	European Commission Refers ACTA to the European Court of Justice: The European Commission, which has been a staunch supporter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, today announced that it is referring ACTA to the European Court of Justice to determine whether ACTA is incompatible - in any way - with the EU's fundamental rights and freedoms. While the m...
Feb 22	Why Bill C-30 Gives the Govt the Power To Install Its Own Surveillance Equipment on ISP Networks: Over the past few days, I've posted on some of the implications of Bill C-30, including the mandatory disclosure of subscriber information, the "voluntary" warrantless disclosure of emails and web surfing habits, and the stunning lack of detail on a wide range of issues including costs and sur...
Feb 22	Rick's Rant on Online Privacy:

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CircleID - Blogs

Feb 22	Last Minute Tips for a Solid gTLD Application: With the new top-level domain (gTLD) application process down to the last two months, here are three last minute tips on how to submit a successful gTLD application to ICANN: 1. Show your work 2. Don't go negative 3. Make your application stand alone Show your work. Sometimes the most obvio...
Feb 21	Misconceptions About Spam: Sometimes I hear people or read writers that say things about spam that are incorrect. I thought I would clear those up in this blog post. 1. December is spam season When the holidays roll around, people start warning other people to watch their inboxes — December is spam season! By that, th...
Feb 21	The Issue Is the Digital Economy, Not Broadband: After some five years of public debate on the national broadband network it is heartening to see that more and more people are getting the message that the network means more than just fast internet access. Increasingly key decision-makers in business and government are reaching an understanding ...

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Public Domain

Feb 16	A rational look at Bill C-30: The debate surrounding the federal government’s recently introduced “The Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act”, or Bill C-30, has raised emotions on all sides. The need to protect children from exploitation has been pitted against the the individual’s right to privacy, so there’s no s...
Feb 9	The 2012 Canadian Internet Forum: On February 27, 2012, we’re hosting the Canadian Internet Forum (CIF) national event in Ottawa. At the CIF, I will present findings from a three-month online dialogue with Canadians about the development of the Internet. There is no cost to attend. I am happy to announce that Robert Herjavec will...

DomainPulse.com

Feb 22	ARI Wins .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE & .VICTORIA As Big Guns Wheel Out Announcements: ARI Registry Services has been selected by the NSW and Victorian governments to assist with the application and operation of the .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE and .VICTORIA top level domains. ARI Registry Services has engaged professional services firm Ernst & Young and digital brand management service...
Feb 22	ICANN: CEO Search Update: The CEO Search Committee has been actively working to identify top candidates for ICANN’s CEO/President position, to commence 1 July 2012. The window for candidate applications closed on Friday, 17 February. Our partner in the search process, Odgers Berndtson, has collected well over 100 candidat...

Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets > CIRA

Feb 20	Is Your ISP Snooping On You?: Photo by The Planet Lawful access legislation is upon Canadians. Introduced by Minister Toews as ‘with the government or with the child-pornographers’ legislation, lawful access will radically expand the scope of Canadians’ personal information that government authorities can collect without a ...
Feb 8	Announcement: Lawful Access Report Now Available: Image by AJ Cann Last year the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) approached me to prepare a report around forthcoming lawful access legislation. Specifically, I was to look outside of Canada to understand how lawful access powers had been developed and used in foreign jurisdi...

unrest.ca | By Kevin McArthur

Feb 2	ALPR - Amazing research, terrible transparency and dangerous agenda.: For the last 6 months I've been spending my off-hours working with a research collective consiting of Rob Wipond, Chris Parsons and Myself investigating the technology known as Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) and how it is being deployed by the RCMP and local police in Canada. I'm hap...
Jan 24	Credit Card System Update (IN11-003): Just a quick update on the IN11-003 bug.. Most vendors are patched now, however a few holdouts remain. I can however report that at least one of the oAuth provider libraries that was affected has now patched their software. So if you're a user of tmhOauth, (commonly used with Twitter) you will w...

Domain Bits

2010 Aug

CIRA Board of Directors - Support Zak Muscovitch: Post updated - see updates in bold. If you are a dot ca domain holder, you may be aware that the elections for the CIRA Board of Directors are underway. Many of you know Zak Muscovitch, a domain name lawyer, whom we previously interviewed about Canadian domain laws.  Zak is seeking a seat on...

Frank for CIRA

Sep 13

Final Member Nomination Slate Published, Campaign Forum to Open: Wow, you pushed me through. Thank you everyone for making me one of the final 9 member nominated candidates in the CIRA elections. Thank you very much and congratulations to the other candidates who made it through as well – such a great roster of qualified candidates. Aguiar, Reinaldo Escobar, ...

KDB Systems > CIRA

Sep 15

Does CIRA need governance reform?: In a previous post I stated: “CIRA leads by example by being an open, democratic organisation with an elected board. Many organisations involved with Internet governance do not have open elections. The public, members, and stakeholders have limited input into how many Internet governance organisa...

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Description: 2011 CIRA Board Election Campaign Forum: Sept 13 - 20 at https://elections.cira.ca/2011/campaign/topics/en. The above ballot includes the CIRA CEO's blog (Public Domain) and several CIRA board election candidates' blogs. If this were a funded blog competition these might not be included, but given the lack of funding and consequent lack of independent blogs, it's helpful to include these "non-independent" blogs.

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