Tag Archive for Canada

Canadas telcos secretly backing revival of “dead” warrantless surveillance bill – Boing Boing

From BoingBoing:

Michael Geist sez,

Canada’s proposed Internet surveillance was back in the news last week after speculation grew that government intends to keep the bill in legislative limbo until it dies on the order paper. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews denied the reports, maintaining that Bill C-30 will still be sent to committee for further study. My weekly technology law column reveals that behind the scenes, Canada’s telecom companies have worked actively with government officials to identify key issues and to develop a secret Industry – Government Collaborative Forum on Lawful Access.

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Canadas warrantless surveillance bill is, improbably, dead – Boing Boing

From BoingBoing:

Remember Canada’s Bill C-30, the sweeping surveillance bill proposed by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who declared that if you opposed unlimited, unaccountable, secret warrantless snooping on networked communications by the police and by appointed civilians, you “stand with the child pornographers?” The bill that was a sure thing to pass, given the Conservative majority in Parliament and its total commitment to the bill?

It’s dead.

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Even more Top Search Queries data

From Google Webmaster Central Blog:

We recently updated the Top Search Queries data to take into account the average top position, we enabled programmatic download and we made sure you could still get all the queries that drive traffic to your site. Well, now it’s time to give you more search queries data!

First, and most important, you can now see up to 90 days of historical data. If you click on the date picker in the top right of Search queries, you can go back three months instead of the previous 35 days.

Canada Post sues crowdsourced postal-code database, claims copyright in Canadian postal-codes – Boing Boing

From BoingBoing:

Michael Geist sez,

Canada Post has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Geolytica, which operates GeoCoder.ca, a website that provides several geocoding services including free access to a crowdsourced compiled database of Canadian postal codes. Canada Post argues that it is the exclusive copyright holder of all Canadian postal codes and claims that GeoCoder appropriated the database and made unauthorized reproductions.

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Canadas newest coin glows in the dark – Yahoo! News

The Royal Canadian Mint just can’t sit still. Like a hyperactive kid, it has revamped Canadian cash, first introducing plastic bills and then killing the penny. Now it wants people to play with glow-in-the-dark quarters.

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