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Privacy commissioner leaves no doubt in Bell targeted ads case: opt-out is out

With Bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act, currently before the House of Commons, the Bell targeted advertising case demonstrates why reforms are urgently needed to provide the privacy commissioner of Canada with long overdue power to enforce the law.

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BY MICHAEL GEIST
April 10, 2015

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Surviving the population crash

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

The challenge is how to make our way safely down from the old high-birth-rate regime to a new low-birth-rate future because the present pace of change will leave us dealing with inverted population pyramids for about a century. Each generation born will be dramatically smaller than the older ones, which imposes a heavy burden on the young.

Surviving the population crash

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER

The challenge is how to make our way safely down from the old high-birth-rate regime to a new low-birth-rate future because the present pace of change will leave us dealing with inverted population pyramids for about a century. Each generation born will be dramatically smaller than the older ones, which imposes a heavy burden on the young.

Privacy commissioner leaves no doubt in Bell targeted ads case: opt-out is out

With Bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act, currently before the House of Commons, the Bell targeted advertising case demonstrates why reforms are urgently needed to provide the privacy commissioner of Canada with long overdue power to enforce the law.

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