Privacy Commissioner Criticizes Canadian DMCA

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has criticized the proposed Canadian DMCA in a public letter to Jim Prentice, the Canadian Minister of Industry. Specifically, she's asking them not to protect any DRM from circumvention that gathers and transmits personal data, because that would give abusive DRM makers a legal cudgel to use against anyone who exposes them. The proposed bill, which was recently delayed due to heavy opposition, is thought to contain DMCA-style anti-circumvention provisions that would make it illegal to investigate or remove intrusive DRM, even if that DRM was violating Canadian privacy laws."

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Re:Dear Slashdot

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A) slashdot is international; less than half of its readership is in the US
B) The US is not a democracy. It is a Republic
C) the USSR was also a Republic. The various factions of its Communist Party had more differences than the two wings of the US' single corporate party.

Democracy? When we get a Democracy let me know. I want to legalize pot. Which wing of the Corporate Party wants pot legalized, the Rs or the Ds? Oh that's right, neither.

Democracy, my ass.