Weekly Newsletter: June 28, 2022
Weekly News (June 28, 2022)
Compiled by Fizza Kulvi, Meaghan Wester, and Nick Gertler with Sara Bannerman, Fenwick McKelvey, Guillaume Dandurand, Marek Blottière, and Kevin Morin
McMaster University, Communications Governance Observatory
| The Communications Governance Discussion Group meets every few weeks by Zoom. Email organizer Derek Hrynyshyn <derekh@yorku.ca> for details. |
(June 21 – June 27, 2022)
Canadian News
· [BROADCAST REGULATION] Online-streaming bill passes third reading in House of Commons, heads to Senate (Globe & Mail) / Le projet de loi C-11 sur la réforme de la Loi sur la radiodiffusion adopté en Chambre (Le Devoir)
· [BROADCAST REGULATION] YouTube might be asked to manipulate algorithms under online streaming bill: CRTC chair (Global)
· [ONLINE NEWS] News compensation bill part of ‘global movement’ to regulate Big Tech, critic says (National Post)
· [BROADCAST REGULATION] CBC can keep branded content division: CRTC; Controversial material deemed still ‘pertinent’ (National Post) / Le CRTC renouvelle les licences de Radio-Canada et lui donne un mandat repensé (Le Devoir)
· [COMPETITION/OWNERSHIP] Rogers, Shaw, Competition Bureau agree to mediation process on $26 billion deal (Toronto Star)
· [COMPETITION/OWNERSHIP] Globalive chairman urges Ottawa to block sale of Freedom Mobile to Quebecor; Rogers Communications has struck a deal to sell Freedom to Quebecor for $2.85-billion in order to address competition concerns (Globe & Mail)
· [RACE-BASED DATA IN POLICING] Anonymous data policy needs to go, police told (Toronto Star)
· [ONLINE HARMS] Les «deepfakes» et faussetés en ligne dans la mire d’Ottawa (Le Devoir)
· [ACCESS TO INFORMATION] Le Canada et le Québec cancres de l’accès à l’information (Le Devoir)
· [ACCESS TO INFORMATION] Tir groupé pour une refonte de la loi sur l’accès à l’information (Le Devoir)
· [CAMPUS FREE SPEECH] Poilievre promises to protect freedom of speech on campus, appoint a ‘Free Speech Guardian’ (National Post)
· [MISINFORMATION] Selon le commissaire aux élections Le Canada n’est « pas à l’abri » du « virus » de la désinformation (La Presse)
· [DEFAMATION] A Quebec comedian who won a high-profile Supreme Court of Canada human rights case last year (Globe & Mail)
· [DEFAMATION] Depp v. Heard script might have ended differently in Ontario (Toronto Star)
· [ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE] Can we make artificial intelligence less racist? (Toronto Star)
· [ONLINE HARMS] OPINION: Graydon: Abuse ‘taxing’ to women (Toronto Star)
· [DEEPFAKES] OPINION: Smaili and Rancourt-Raymond: How to combat the unethical and costly use of deepfakes (The Conversation)
International News
· [PRIVACY] Abortion ruling could scramble data privacy talks (Washington Post)
· [PRIVACY] Period tracker app Flo developing ‘anonymous mode’ following Supreme Court ruling (Yahoo)
· [PRESS FREEDOM] Supreme Court Declines to Revisit Landmark Press-Freedom Case (WSJ)
· [PLATFORM REGULATION] With clock ticking, battle over tech regulation intensifies (Washington Post)
· [PLATFORM REGULATION] Biden’s TikTok Problem – The New York Times (New York Times)
· [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Instagram is testing new ways to verify teens are 18 years old, including video selfies (AP/Today)
· [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Facebook Oversight Board says company should be much more transparent (Washington Post)
· [CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS] NDAs can muzzle sexual harassment victims. Congress could change that (Washington Post)
· [PLATFORM REGULATION] ProtonMail CEO urges Congress to zero in on tech giants’ default apps (Washington Post)
· [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Top EU official to U.S.: Don’t ‘throw away your shot’ to curb online harms(Washington Post)
· [PRIVACY] Top Senate Democrat casts doubt on prospect of major data privacy bill(Washington Post)
· [PLATFORM REGULATION/ ANTITRUST] Antitrust influencers? Big Tech allies, opponents draft social media stars into bout(Washington Post)
· [PLATFORM GOVERNANCE] Republicans are increasingly testing social media rules around political violence(Washington Post)
· [DEFAMATION] Fox News parent must face defamation lawsuit over election coverage (Reuters
(June 21 – June 27, 2022)
CRTC
Ian Scott to the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications
CRTC adopts modern approach for the CBC/Radio-Canada’s traditional and digital services
Compliance and Enforcement and Telecom decision 2022-170
Development of a network-level blocking framework to limit botnet traffic and strengthen Canadians’ online safety – Public record: 1011-NOC2021-0009
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Philippe Dufresne appointed Canada’s new Privacy Commissioner
Canadian Heritage
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Government of Canada launches second phase of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Competition Bureau
Important amendments to the Competition Act come into effect
Communications Security Establishment
Communications Security Establishment releases annual report
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
CIPO releases its 2020−2021 Annual Report
It’s time for more transparency around government data demands
Microsoft
Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War
Senate of Canada
- No further sitting days this week; next sitting day: September 20, 2022
House of Commons
- No sitting days this week; next sitting day: September 19, 2022
CRTC
Public Consultations
- CBC/Radio-Canada engaging with Indigenous communities across Canada about better reflecting Indigenous cultures (April 26 – September 27, 2022)
- CRTC: Share your ideas and comments about telecommunications services in the Far North (June 8, 2022 – October 6, 2022)
- Reviewing access to information: Open – accepting input: Jan 11, 2022 to July 31, 2022 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat To ensure that the access to information regime continues to provide open, accessible and trustworthy information to Canadians in this digital age.
- Help Shape our Changing Narratives Fund (TBC) Open – accepting input June 1, 2022 to July 31, 2022 Canadian Heritage: The Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat is leading and moderating up to 6 21 virtual roundtables with community stakeholders in June and July. (TBC)
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