Weekly Newsletter: July 19, 2022

(July 12 – July 18, 2022)

Canadian News 

·         [TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY] Téléphonie sans-fil: Cogeco Communications se concentrerait sur le Québec et l’Ontario (La Presse)

·         [COPYRIGHT] Supreme Court nixes double royalties for streaming, downloading music online (Globe and Mail) / Droit d’auteur: La Cour suprême met fin aux doubles redevances aux créateurs de musique en ligne (La Presse)

·         [TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY] Le CRTC exige des réponses de Rogers au sujet de la mégapanne (Le Journal de Montréal)

·         [TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY] MPs to invite Rogers execs, CRTC and Champagne amid study on outage (CTV News)

·         [TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY] Rogers customers are outraged, but will they really leave? Company offers five days’ credit ‘as a first step’ (Toronto Star)

·         [TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY] Industry minister suggests Rogers outage could weigh on $26-billion Shaw deal (Financial Post)

·         [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Inside Amazon’s strategy to shield its profits from Canadian taxes (Globe and Mail)

·         [PRIVACY/CYBERSECURITY] Logiciels espions: La GRC reste muette (La Presse)

·         [ONLINE NEWS] Postmedia signs deal with Google to be compensated for news articles (National Post)

·         [ONLINE HARMS] How should Canada tackle harmful online content? Look beyond our borders, experts say (Toronto Star)

·         [CYBERSECURITY] Russian cyber threat to Canada worse than previously reported: CSE (National Post)

·         [CRTC SERVICES] Mental health experts say Canada needs a 3-digit suicide crisis hotline (CBC)

·         [TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURE/COMPETITION] Manitoba wireless carrier Xplore Mobile to shut down at end of August (Winnipeg Sun)

·         [PLATFORM LOBBYING] Toronto mayor rejects allegations of improper links between his office and Uber (Toronto Star)

·         [ONLINE HARMS] OPINION: Sarkonak: Liberals use ‘expert’ panel to give moral weight to online censorship (National Post)

·         [COMPETITION] OPINION: KLINE: Jagmeet Singh’s phony plea for competition after Rogers outage (National Post)

·         [DISINFORMATION] OPINION: MAI et al: Russian propaganda is making inroads with right-wing Canadians (The Conversation)

·         [FREE EXPRESSION] OPINION: A sagging commitment to free speech (National Post)

International News

·         [NET NEUTRALITY] Democrats plan sweeping net neutrality bill as FCC majority stalls (Washington Post)   

·         [ONLINE HARMS] Jan. 6 panel spotlights Twitter’s role in insurrection (Washington Post)

·         [PRIVACY] After Roe, Digital Privacy Looks Worse Than Ever (NYT)

·         [ANTITRUST] Fate of lawmakers’ tech antitrust push is up in the air (Washington Post)

·         [DISINFORMATION] Half of Holocaust-related posts on Telegram deny or distort facts, U.N. says (Reuters)

·         [DISINFORMATION] UN stressed key communications role to combat disinformation (Washington Post)

·         [PRIVACY] Civil rights advocates say federal privacy bill won’t hurt California’s protections (Washington Post)

·         [ONLINE HARMS] Can an EU law save children from harmful content online? (Reuters)

·         [FREE EXPRESSION] Iran arrests 3rd outspoken filmmaker in escalating crackdown (Washington Post)

·         [PLATFORM REGULATION] Indonesia urges tech platforms to sign up to new licensing rules or risk being blocked (Reuters)

·         [NATIONAL SECURITY] ​​Chinese drone maker lobbies to lift US national security ban (Financial Times)

·         [SURVEILLANCE] China’s Surveillance State Hits Rare Resistance From Its Own Subjects (NYT)

·         [HATE SPEECH] Ukraine says Big Tech has dropped the ball on Russian propaganda (Washington Post)

·         [PRIVACY] Amazon can send Ring footage to police without consent: ‘Emergency’ policy used 11 times in 2022 (USA Today)   

·         [ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE] These robots were trained on AI. They became racist and sexist. (Washington Post)

·         [ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE] The never-ending quest to predict crime using AI (Washington Post)

·         [ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE] Robots Aren’t Done Reshaping Warehouses (NYT) 

·         [ANTITRUST/PLATFORM REGULATION] Amazon Proposes Settlement of EU Antitrust Charges on Seller Data (WSJ)

·         [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Facebook-owner Meta releases first human rights report (Reuters)

·         [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Elon Musk and Twitter Each Face Challenge to Define What Makes an Account Fake (WSJ)

·         [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Tech Workers Long Got What They Wanted. That’s Over. Employees who switched jobs during the pandemic received salary bumps and permission to work remotely. Those perks are now under threat. (WSJ)

·         [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Alibaba suffers under someone else’s cloud (Reuters)

·         [CYBERSECURITY] Pegasus spyware maker is in an even tougher spot now (Washington Post)

·         [PLATFORM REGULATION] TikTok delays changes to privacy policy over Europe data concerns (Reuters)

·         [ONLINE HARMS] Ahead of Kenya elections, women politicians face more online abuse (Reuters)