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Once you have signed in through your CML account, posting to the website is pretty simple. All you have to do is add “post” (without quotes) to the end of the URL. Once you do so and press enter you will be taken to a page where you can post. So you will go from […]
Question of the Week (Class 2): U.S. Super Bowl Commercials on Canadian TV – Yes, No or Who Cares?
This is one of those stories that is very hard to tell. Because of all the complexity and twists and turns, it may be best told in flashback like one of those movies that starts off in the near-present moment, when the main character is about to do something climactic and you then wonder how […]
News of the Week; June 27, 2018
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Net Neutrality and NAFTA: Canadian Government Says It Will Address U.S. Policy Should Harms Arise (Michael Geist) AT&T Successfully Derails California’s Tough New Net Neutrality Law California net neutrality bill gutted as lawmakers cave to AT&T lobbyists California’s Quest For Tough Net Neutrality Not Dead Yet Bill to save net […]
Questions of the Week (Class 12)
On the occasion of our final class of the semester (I will be in the U.K. speaking at a conference put on by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London (https://www.morethanjustagame.london/mtjg-london-iv-programme), it seems only fair to re-ask a series of questions that we examined throughout the course. This gives everyone a […]
Internet and Elections News Continue – with a Newspaper Appearance!
Hi everyone, INTERNET AND ELECTION NEWS CONTINUE Although, we all addressed Canada’s lack of involvement in invasive data use especially in light of what happened with Cambridge Analytics and their use of Facebook data in order to help the Republicans win the US presidential election, it turns out some Canadians are not totally incapable of […]
Crypto Currency Crime
I recently found two articles highlighting how virtual cash or crypto currency can be a tool to gain illegal economic advantages. The first example is with cyber thieves using virtual cash for money laundering. In fact Dr McGuire drawing from an early 2018 study stated that “between $80bn (£57bn) and $200bn of cash generated by […]
CEO of Firm that modified Blackberry, Samsung phones to ‘knowingly’ help drug cartels evade police is indicted
Two recent news stories regarding cellphone technology relate to personal privacy rights. First, Phantom Secure is a company that sells modified BlackBerry and Samsung phones, has been accused of “knowingly” selling products to drug gangs in order to help them evade law enforcement. Vincent Ramos, CEO of the company along with four associates have been indicted. […]
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