
The Latest from Bryan Short

YOUR VOICE DELIVERED: More than 3,000 speak out in the US against digital advertising!
Data brokers and advertisers prey upon our sensitive data and our community is sick of it.

What’s the Biggest Lie on the Internet?
How websites are designed to lead us into “agreeing” with things we don’t really understand.

Everything you need to know about data brokers
For data brokers, being unseen is part of the strategy. So we’re shining a light on the dangerous economy of selling YOUR data.

Regaining Privacy: Winning the Battle Against Device Searches at the Border
Parliamentarians just acknowledged that our personal electronic devices are different from our luggage, and deserve special privacy protections at the border.

A small fight with a BIG win: Blocking the use of CCTV cameras in Vancouver
OpenMedia was proud to contribute to stopping a dangerous proposal to create a publicly-funded network of police CCTV cameras.

How the federal government failed to protect our mobility data
Instead of keeping its promise to strengthen Canada’s privacy laws, the federal government is taking advantage of our system’s weaknesses.

Our location data: What we know now
What we’ve learned one week into testimony about the government’s use of cell phone tracking during COVID-19.

Our Location Data: Three Essential Questions for the Ethics Committee
Parliament’s ethics committee is investigating the use of our location data by the federal government. Here are our top three questions we need answers to, and why.

Telus Gave Your Location Data to the Feds. Now what?
Our privacy laws failed to protect us. Find out why more than 10,000 people are demanding new privacy rights from Justin Trudeau.

Message to Higher Education: Trust Students, not Pandemic Profiteers
If we’re going to overcome this pandemic, our public institutions need to reject the rhetoric of mistrust by disowning the remote proctoring companies that profit off misfortune.
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