We need to talk about Elon Musk and the rise of the tech oligarchs. For over 15 years, money and power have been bleeding from citizens and elected governments, to the founders of a small number of ...

The European Commission today released its preliminary analysis on its Public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the ...

The government has promised to push through an invasive, anti-Internet set of "Lawful Access" electronic surveillance laws within the first 100 days of Parliament. If passed, these laws will turn ...

The answer is a watchdog, mostly muzzled and defanged, whose reports to Parliament are first censored by the intelligence agency he is watching, then cleared by the minister politically responsible ...

We want to deliver a strong message to the new government as it settles into Ottawa. So we collected dozens of personal stories from people across the country who struggle to connect to the Internet ...

All over the world, media publishing giants are lobbying to restrict linking on the Internet. That’s why we launched our ‘Save the Link’ campaign. We made it explicit from the start that we knew what ...

Your OpenMedia team has just confirmed the location of a new ultra-secretive meeting to finalize the Trans Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) Internet censorship plan. It’s taking place in just a few days in ...

Do you have a question about the ‘Link Tax’? What kind of controls will new copyright proposals actually place on content creation? Why do we talk about censorship machines? What is the upload filter?

Independent Canadian providers are struggling due to years of regulatory protection of the Big Three cell phone providers and delayed promises from policy-makers to provide access to the ...

What kinds of information are deserving of special protection under Canadian privacy law? We explore the current landscape in light of Canada's proposed privacy laws, and look to other jurisdictions ...

This week my regular technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) focused on the long election campaign and the prospect that digital issues might get some time in the spotlight. The ...

In mid-August, there was a week-long meeting in Mexico to do a "legal scrub" of the TPP text, in order to have the text ready to go for an eventual signing. Toward the end of August, officials from ...