Report to the Midyear Meeting 2008: Canada

OpenMedia’s research report sheds light on dozens of secretive businesses that handle people’s sensitive voting behaviour data on behalf of federal political parties in Canada – with few effective rules limiting their actions.

It is bad enough that police arrested a journalist for doing her job, but it is outrageous that prosecutors even considered pursuing the charges against Brandi Morin, said RSF.

Since this Op-Ed was written, Meta (the parent company of Instagram and Facebook) has announced that it has begun to remove access to Canadian news — and the ability of its Canadian users to share Canadian news — from its platforms.