Privacy Commissioner and DRM

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:53:31 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Kristofer Coward wrote:

> On a related note, has the Privacy Commissioner's office done any
> studies or written any reports on the privacy implications of TPM?

  Ontario, yes.

The document was at (For anyone that was linking to it - now returns 404
error - what an ugly 'upgrade' they did to their site)
  http://www.ipc.on.ca/english/pubpres/papers/drm.htm 

It is now at:
http://www.ipc.on.ca/scripts/index_.asp?action=31&P_ID=13323&N_ID=1&PT_ID=9&U_ID=0


  I have not seen anything so far from the Federal Privacy Comissioner.
Has anyone sent the federal comissioner an information request on this?  
The Federal Privacy Comissioner is definetely not a shy fellow ;-)

  "Our rights are 'under assault,' privacy czar warns"
  http://weblog.flora.org/article.php3?story_id=339

  Which links to:
  http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=eae431d8-7415-4d74-8935-79b14d821b8e
and
  http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2003/02_05_b_030129_e.asp

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 Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, 
 VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen 
 and not a third party.   -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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