Canada’s Privacy Community and Privacy Commissioners Speak Out on Copyright and DRM Threats to Privacy

| May 17, 2006
A group of public-interest oriented organizations and privacy and civil liberties experts have released an open letter to the Ministers of Canadian Heritage and Industry along with a Background Paper detailing their concerns over how proposed changes to Canadian copyright law implicate privacy, freedom of expression and civil liberties. The open letter focuses on dangers to privacy posed by the extension of legal protection to