Privacy in the digital age is a huge issue, as is the right of national governments to legislate a world-wide phenomenon. The latest today is that Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has given 30 days to clean up its act and strengthen privacy, while apparently choking down on access. Likely another great fight, but one worthy of [...]
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Well, it had to happen. CTV takes a good whack at Facebook, essentially calling it boring and a time-waster. This is after Doonesbury spent a week taking the mickey out of Twitter, through its all too callow reporter Roland Hedley (who lost major money on the “new” technology of the Internet in 1999 with his [...]
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A Manitoba youth has been charged with a criminal offence for impersonating one of his teachers in the popular social networking site Facebook.
While a number of people have been charged with civil offences for false Facebook entries, this is the first instance of someone facing jail time.
The Canadian statute defining personation specifies that the charge [...]
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