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Submission + - Google Street View Could Be Illegal in Canada (www.cbc.ca)

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Nos.

on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @10:50AM

Nos. writes: "Canada's privacy commissioner has sent letters to Calgary-based Immersive Media, which already has images from several cities in Canada, and David Drummond, Google's senior vice-president of corporate development and chief legal officer. She's concerned that the high resolution pictures in Street View could violate Canada's privacy laws, specifically PIPEDA."

Submission + - TV Listings from SchedulesDirect Announces Prices (schedulesdirect.org)

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Nos.

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @10:53PM

Nos. writes: "For those waiting for an alternative to Zap2It's television listings, there's good news. The quick answer, $15 for 3 months. By the end of the first term, they hope to reduce that to $20/year. They're not ready for sign ups just yet, but will be soon. Great news for North American MythTV (and other PVR) users."

Submission + - Blocking Access to Sites in Canada

Submitted by on Thursday August 24, 2006 @05:56PM

Nos. writes: We've all read about the "Greate Firewall of China" and how ineffective it really is. In Canada, a lawyer is asking the CRTC to block access to a site that is inciting hate against Jews and even calling for the murder of a specific individual. While sites like these aren't big news, what is interesting, is two quotes from the article: "the CRTC has the rarely used power to order Internet providers to temporarily block them [sites] from Canadian web surfers" and "Canadian law prevents carriers from blocking hate sites without the express permission of the CRTC". Suggesting that the CRTC can demand that ISPs across Canada block access to a certain site, but also that it is against the law for an ISP to do so without being told to do so by the CRTC.

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