The last Parliament featured debate over several contentious Internet-related bills, notably streaming and news laws (Bills C-11 and C-18), online harms (Bill C-63) and Internet age verification and website blocking (Bill S-210). Bill S-210 fell below the radar screen for many months as it started in the Senate and received only cursory review in the House. The bill faced only a final vote in the House but it died with the election call. This week, the bill’s sponsor, Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne, wasted no time in bringing it back. Now Bill S-209, the bill starts from scratch in the Senate with the same basic framework but with some notable changes that address at least some of the concerns raised by the prior bill (a fulsome review of those concerns can be heard in a Law Bytes podcast I conducted with Senator Miville-Dechêne).
Discord just recently had data breaches of thousands of ids in the UK, the British government is now looking to ban vpns. It’s bad policy plain as day.
Discord just recently had data breaches of thousands of ids in the UK, the British government is now looking to ban vpns. It’s bad policy plain as day.
I hope Canada is smart enough to realize how the bulk of knowledge work in their own government is done. Hint: things are gonna suck soon.