From The Source, Feb. 21, 2012: What happens when we allow free market health care? In Germany, the system flourished. Should Canada adopt that model? Ezra Levant
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We’ve discussed before the issue of companies gathering vast amounts of data on individuals in order to create targeted behavioral advertising. Now, the New York Times reports that the same types of data collection and profile creation are being used by political campaigns: Political campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are [...]
My Feb. 20, 2012 Sun column; CBC wants censorship The CBC is throwing a tantrum — using your tax dollars. They had a lawyer send a letter to us here at the Sun, complaining because we criticize their wasteful spending, their lack of accountability, and their bizarre broadcasting decisions, like their big foray into Internet [...]
AN IRISH perspective on this month’s cancelled Paris match on a frozen Stade de France, barely three months after the French Bleus almost won the World Cup against the All Blacks. Pictured: Dimitri Yashvili and the tricolore:COWARD HAD IT RIGHT – FRENCH HOLD US IN CONTEMPTBy Sean DiffleyEighty years ago the French were thrown out [...]
My Feb. 18, 2012 Sun column; Media in a lather! #TellVicEverythingWhat a pleasure to see Canada’s consensus media so concerned about the erosion of privacy and civil liberties under a proposed new crime law called Bill C-30, introduced by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. Government snooping didn’t bother the media pack when it came in [...]
Google and other online advertising companies like Vibrant Media, Media Innovation Group, and PointRoll, are using a flaw in Safari on iOS to track you despite your privacy settings. iOS Safari is set by default to reject tracking cookies from 3rd party websites. That means that unless you are directly and intentionally interacting with a [...]
The bible teaches us; “A good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death, than the day of birth.” (Ecclesiastes 7:1)On this day, as the world mourns and says goodbye to Whitney Houston, this wisdom reminds us that we grieve death, we grieve our own loss.Ms. Houston has passed from time into [...]
The White House’s Budget for fiscal 2013 begins with a broken promise, add some phony policy assumptions, throw in a few rosy forecasts and omits all kind of painful decisions. Even then, the proposal would add trillion more to the national debt that Obama contemplated a few months ago-and it is a non-starter on Capitol [...]
We’ve discussed before how some Internet browsers have Do Not Track features to give consumers more control over the personal data that is gathered by Web sites or advertisers. The Do Not Track and other privacy tools in browsers seek to avoid “cookies,” which collect data about and can track users’ Internet searches and sites visited. Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox and [...]
Entry written by Heather Ormerod, Senior Communications Advisor, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Once a year, privacy advocates and enthusiasts around the world get the chance to collectively shine a spotlight on the issue of online privacy. Data Privacy Day, which is celebrated annually on January 28, is an annual international celebration designed [...]