When you buy a smartphone or a laptop, that device should be completely yours; you ought to be able to do what you want with it. If you drop your phone off the fifth floor, and the screen breaks, you ...

The IXmaps research project has developed an interactive mapping tool that enables Internet users to view the routes that data packets take across the Internet, with surveillance and other interesting ...

Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. Thanks to data ...

The past year has been a rollercoaster on the digital rights front. But together, the OpenMedia community has achieved a lot. Here’s an overview of our wins and what’s on the horizon.

This is the story of all the things we did together to save the link. Yes, we built a network of nearly 100 organisations, gathered over 10,000 responses to the European Commission’s consultation on ...

You might not know this, but for some time now we’ve been running a weekly newsletter with a condensed overview of the week’s digital rights news, and of what we’ve been up to here at OpenMedia. Our ...

These piece by our Erin Knight was originally posted on Rabble.ca. Thanks to the growing global anti-racism movement, the world is opening its eyes to how police use of facial recognition fits into ...

Our government just unveiled a cynical plan to make Canada’s Internet one of the most censored and surveilled in the democratic world. It’s a classic bait and switch; using our real frustration with ...

Tom Pentefountas is due to start his government appointment as full-time commissioner and vice-chair (broadcasting) at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in April.

National Capital Freenet (NCF) is a not-for-profit independent Internet service provider based out of Ottawa. NCF runs the Community Access Fund (CAF), a program that helps low-income people access ...

The Harper government is under fire for trying to take control of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by making a partisan appointment to the senior ranks of the ...

Banner image courtesy of Rewheel, from "The state of 4G and 5G pricing, 2H2021 – country rankings" (2021) report. Canada just topped the global charts for expensive cell phone prices — AGAIN. This ...