Electronic Frontier Canada -- www.efc.ca

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Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC) was founded to ensure that theprinciples embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedomsremain protected as new computing, communications,and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society.According to the March 11 Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Eric Daniel Head,Matthew Head, and Barry Head are being sued by Yahoo! Inc under termsof the US's new anti-spam legislation. Yahoo! accuses the Heads ofsending almost 100 million e-mail messages to its subscribers.EFC's Vice-President Jeffrey Shallit appeared in interviewson CH TV and in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. He cautionedthat legislative solutions to spam may not be the best route to follow.EFC has petitioned the court to intervene in the CanadianRecording Industry Association's suit attempt to getISP's to reveal the names of net users they say areviolating copyright law. See this article in the Toronto Star.EFC's petition was granted and is being heard in court on March 12, 2004.Here is our court submission.CIPPIC, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic atthe University of Ottawa, has intervened in therecent CRIA suit. See their document here.Paul Bryan was acquitted of violating Canada's election law in a web-postingcase in October 2003. The Attorney General of Canada has appealed.More details here.spoke on a panel at the invitation ofthe Canadian Association of Broadcasters in November 2003.More details to follow.CIRA, the non-profit corporation that handles the Canadian .ca domain,will be hosting a meeting of ICANN (Internet Corporation for AssignedNames and Numbers) in Montreal, June 22-26, 2003. More informationis here.EFC's Richard Rosenbergtestified in Vancouver on February 19 before the House Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration in opposition to Bill C-18 and the creationof a national ID card. Here are his remarksand an unedited transcript ofthe session.Robert Pickton, 53, is facing 15 counts of first-degree murderin connection with the disappearances of more than 50 womenfrom Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.As sometimes occurs in high profile cases like this,there is a publication ban.As another example of "the Net" recognizing censorship as damageand routing information around it, there is a web sitewhere people interested in the case can get access tonews items published outside Canada: http://www.thememoryhole.org/crime/pickton-blackout.htmAn RCMP spokesperson in Vancouver said they are "looking at" web sitesto see if there are any breaches of the publication ban.Read Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski'sAnnual Report, where he warnsthat the Canadian government is rapidly eroding personal privacy in the wake of September 11.Paul Bryan challenged the portion of Canada's election law dealing with earlyrelease of results. Judge Kerry Smith has now ruled that although the lawdoes violate the Charter's guarantee of free expression, that violation isjustifiable in a free and democratic society.See herefor a brief summary.Bryan received support from EFC in this challenge.For more information, see the ElectionResultsCanada.comweb site and the original press releasefrom Paul Bryan.Journalist Nancy Carter is suing her ISP after they withheldaccess to her e-mail after a bill dispute. Read Nancy Carter's own summary of hercase, an EFC exclusive. For more detail, seeFor more information about our specific aims,please read EFC's statement of purpose.If you support our goals, we hope you'll considerbecoming a supporting member by filling out anEFC membership application form.The easiest way to reach us is by email:efc@efc.ca .We also have more details onhow to contact us,if you need to reach us in a hurry.Pour plus d'informations sur nos buts sp cifiques, merci de lirela d claration d'intention d'EFC.Si vous soutenez nos objectifs,nous esp rons que vous envisagerez de devenir membre en remplissant unefiche de demande d'adh sion.La fa on la plus simple de nous contacter est par e-mail:efc@efc.ca .Nous sommes votre disposition pour plus de d tailssur la mani re de nous contacter en cas d'urgence.

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