Category Archives: ISPs
Publication: (Un)Lawful Access, Its Potentials, and its Lack of Necessity
Last year I was approached by the founder and editor in chief of The Winston Report to update and publish one of my postings on Canada’s forthcoming lawful access legislation. A preprint version of my contribution, which retained a creative-commons license as part of my agreement with the editor in chief, is made available to you under the normal Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial 2.5 Canada license. Continue reading
The Anatomy of Lawful Access Phone Records
The aim of this post is to make clear just how much information is contained in a single lawful access “phone record”, demonstrating that the government is seeking information that grossly exceeds what is contained in the white or yellow pages today. As a result, I first provide an example phone record that resembles those in every phonebook in Canada and then offer an example of a lawful access record. Continue reading
Lawful Access, Its Potentials, and Its Lack of Necessity
Police and other authorities should not be permitted to infringe upon Canadians’ rights and further erode expectations of communicative privacy, associative privacy, or basic dignities on the basis of cross-jurisdictional envy. Continue reading
ISP Audits in Canada
If our closest military and economic allies can go to the trouble and conduct audits of their broadband networks, and if Canada wants to compete globally in the digital economy, then doesn’t the Government of Canada owe it to Canadians to mimic the best accountability programs that exist in countries that are already invested in encouraging ICT-driven economic growth? Continue reading
