A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention(michaelgeist.ca)

272 points by iamnothere 2 months ago | 147 comments

Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax(michaelgeist.ca)

65 points by Plasmoid 3 years ago | 70 comments

Canada plans to regulate search and social media use of AI(michaelgeist.ca)

82 points by markdog12 3 years ago | 59 comments

Win for copyright user rights in Canada: Digital locks do not trump fair dealing(michaelgeist.ca)

230 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 48 comments

Canadian Government Buries "Lawful Access" Provisions in New Border Bill(michaelgeist.ca)

37 points by tunapizza 1 year ago | 1 comments

Do we need copyright? (2012)(lemire.me)

139 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 141 comments

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts(niemanlab.org)

429 points by 0in 11 days ago | 155 comments

Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance(michaelgeist.ca)

958 points by opengrass 7 months ago | 303 comments

Michael Geist analysis of Canada's Bill C-22, a revived lawful access bill that changes warrantless access rules but retains backdoor surveillance and metadata risks.

Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic(documentcloud.org)

381 points by wordhydrogen 2 years ago | 138 comments

Court filing in Klein v. Meta alleging Facebook's In-App Action Panel program used SSL man-in-the-middle techniques via Onavo to intercept Snapchat, YouTube and Amazon analytics traffic.

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs(lectronz.com)

1568 points by l-one-lone 2 months ago | 971 comments

Blog post by Lectronz founder Alain Pannetrat arguing that European Union regulations are harming makers and small hardware micro-entrepreneurs.

Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes(nytimes.com)

214 points by gmays 25 days ago | 165 comments

New York Times article on how Meta uses AI data center investments to avoid billions in federal taxes; the capture shows a captcha page.

Killing Community(marginalia.nu)

495 points by dasil003 3 years ago | 350 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.