Christopher Malmo
This New App Helps Canadians Find Out what their ISPs Store About Them
It makes harassing Canadian ISPs about your user data disclosures, really easy.
Conservatives Won’t Listen to Their Own Privacy Expert on Surveillance Bill
The Harper government's new choice for Privacy Commissioner has privacy advocates concerned for a number of reasons, chief among them the government actually ignoring its own selection committee's recommendation and the new commish's inexperience with...
The TPP Might Ruin Internet Freedom, but We’ll Export More Canadian Meat to Japan
Canada's active interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership will likely lead to draconian intellectual property laws that will handcuff Canada's digital innovation. Some experts believe that the TPP will only improve our GDP by 0.36, so is this...
The TPP Is Going Nowhere Fast
The TPP isn't your average agreement—it's a trade deal with a giant side of policy laundering. In addition to some tariff cuts, the TPP contains a number of frightening provisions that would hurt the environment, restrict access to lifesaving drugs...
Canada Won't Escape the FCC's Gutting of Net Neutrality
Because of how tightly connected the US is connected with its neighbour to the north, net neutrality will be affected in Canada as well.
Canada’s Internet Sucks, and the Government Has No Real Plan to Improve It
Canada has a plan to develop its digital economy, which would be great news if the strategy weren't so comically lacking in ambition.
Bitcoin Could Revolutionize Voting
One of the most promising applications of new crypto tech lies in creating transparent, efficient systems for making political decisions.
Bitcoin Could Revolutionize Voting
Bitcoin, the virtual currency, has had a rough year. But the underlying technology behind it is being used in small test environments to see how a decentralized and encrypted system of trust can be applied to voting and democracy.
Canada's Spies Are Out of Control
News broke recently that CSEC, Canada's NSA, was testing out a spying program on thousands of travellers in a major Canadian airport in 2012. Now the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and digital rights group OpenMedia are suing CSEC for...
Governments Have Been Spying Their Way Out of Dealing With Climate Change
Recently released documents from Edward Snowden's monumental leak trove show that the NSA spied on America's behalf during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, apparently with help from signals intelligence henchmen in Canada, Australia, the UK, and New...
The Canadian Music Industry Wants to Censor Google Searches
If you believe the chief lobbyist for the music industry in Canada, it's a sad fact of life that honest, hard-working Canadian artists just aren't making money anymore because of all the illegal downloading and the Google. Is this true? No. Is it a...
The TPP is Big Business’ Latest Effort To Buy Its Way Out of Protecting The Environment
In its latest under-reported truth spill, Wikileaks released a recent draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership's (TPP) Environment chapter. We dove into the details.