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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Utica, Ontario-based and family-owned Compton Communications has been around since the 1960s and now serves about 5,500 cable subscribers in Southern Ontario. Though small in size, Compton has ...

Green shows the countries you want to live in, because they have little to no internet censorship. Yellow reveals countries that you might not want to stay in too long, because they might increase ...

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 ...

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.