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  1. Some thoughts on the Facebook Canada CIPPIC privacy complaint http://bit.ly/11vKwQ (via @JulesPolonetsky)
  2. Audio is available of the #privacy commissioner's media briefing: http://bit.ly/fr75s (Includes the speech and the questions) (via @cippic)
  3. Open Data at the City of Vancouver - An Update 16/7/2009 http://bit.ly/lSWvD (via @david_a_eaves)
  4. Industry Canada launches crowdsource Internet access map. Invites public to post their access http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/sit...
  5. The Facebook privacy decision: just posted my summary of key findings and what may lie ahead. http://bit.ly/weEC7
  6. First news hit re facebook and privacy decision, see http://tinyurl.com/ktuh27 (via @sarahschmidtCNS)
  7. CIPPIC release on complaint v. Facebook. Commish: "FB is privacy sensitive, but there are serious gaps" http://bit.ly/ZVtVs (via @cippic)
  8. Privacy Commissioner plans to review Facebook practices in 30 days. If no action on 4 issues, could go to Federal Court to enforce.
  9. Facebook's 3rd party apps the big one - inadequate safeguards of personal info and no meaningful user consent on disclosure of info.
  10. Facebook's 4 privacy issues: 3rd party apps, account deactivation & deletion, deceased users, non-users' personal info http://bit.ly/13AlZ8
  11. Privacy Commissioner finds Facebook violating Canadian privacy law. Company has 30 days to address 4 key issues. http://bit.ly/FqFLy
  12. "No place for the state in our hard drives": Kris Kotarski in Calgary Herald just ahead of copyright consult. http://bit.ly/uIyPo #copycon
  13. National Post podcast on net neutrality and the CRTC hearing - I debate Bell's Jonathan Daniels. http://bit.ly/pL8Ei #crtc
  14. Sen Franken asks U.S. Supreme Ct. nominee Sotomayor about Net neutrality. http://is.gd/1A4QS (via @dweinberger)
  15. Libraries, Companies and Civil Society urge USTR to leave Internet alone in ACTA - http://www.cdt.org/headline... (via @jacobglick)
  16. Google calls Euro Publishers Council's bluff, posts how to exclude their sites from indexing http://bit.ly/16Sj9z (via @CBCtechbytes)
  17. Posted In case you missed: Reflecting on the CRTC net neutrality hearing. The 6 big revelations & what comes next http://bit.ly/2blWDQ #crtc
  18. US has proposed that ACTA text be made public in October. But EU is opposing disclosure. (via @jamie_love)
  19. Canada has a new paper on ACTA. Also a secret document. (via @jamie_love)
  20. Japan has circulated new consolidated draft of ACTA. Text is secret, except 4 lobbyists from big global co's & 40 govts (via @jamie_love)