An Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) survey of 1,006 companies across Canada shows that many businesses are not employing recommended technological tools or practices to protect the digitally-stored personal information of their customers. For example, the survey found that while the vast majority of companies are using passwords to protect personal information [...]
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Courthouse News Service reports that a virginia judge has ruled Facebook “Likes” are not protected speech. The case was related to employees of the Hampton VA sheriff’s office who “Liked” the current sheriff’s opponent in the last election. After he was re-elected, he fired many of the people who had supported his opponent. The judge ruled [...]
Thumbs up – way up – to Matt Denison in making A Night of Hoops and Hope for Southern Indiana Tornado Relief Benefit a great big success. You worked so hard on this and we here at Freedom Of Speech applaud you Mr. Denison. It’s truly ashamed Mr. Mayor let his ego get in the way [...]
THANKS AGAIN to Pacific Media Watch: Brutal repression of journalists and civil rights in Indonesian-ruled West Papua, censorship and self-censorship in Fiji and abuses of a free press in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu have been highlighted in a Pacific media freedom report being published tomorrow. The 41-page report by the Pacific Media Centre’s [...]
Liberal media darling Amir Attaran is a big fan of freedom of information requests, except about when they’re targeted at him. Ezra Levant has more. This segment aired on The Source May 15 2012. Ezra Levant
Kansas state representative, Peggy Mast, on the passing of her state’s anti-sharia bill. This segment aired on The Source May 15 2012. Ezra Levant
Tools enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution of music, video, software and other copyright material are continuing to evolve in a way that presents an increasing challenge for the law, and hence for copyright owners who want to enforce their rights. From early bulletin board systems (BBS) to Usenet, P2P networks like Napster, less centralized services like [...]
PC World reports on a court case in New York concerning telecommunications provider Verizon and a book publisher. The publisher is seeking the personal data of 10 of Verizon’s customers, and the company is refusing. PC World reports: Verizon is fighting a move by a book publisher to obtain personal information on ten of its [...]
There’s a radical lobby group based in the most left-wing city in North America, namely San Francisco. It’s called the Tides Foundation. It’s where left-wing billionaires funnel their money to promote radical causes. A few years ago, they decided to colonize Canada. So they set up a branch plant in Vancouver, called Tides Canada Foundation. [...]
The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation has released a report on data breach notifications (office pdf; archive pdf), and the office says that “encryption is a key – but often lacking – component in information security.” “Our analysis found that our businesses, institutions and others need to do a better job protecting [...]