CapCHI meeting on privacy and copyright
By sylvie | October 21, 2009
For Ottawa-Gatineau people, the monthly CapCHI meeting will be held tomorrow the 22nd at 6pm (note the new time this year) at the Code Factory, in downtown Ottawa.
This month’s presentation will be by Sam Trosow, from the University of Western Ontario. The presentation is entitled Applying Privacy by Design concepts to Copyright Policy:
There is a growing convergence in the areas of copyright and privacy policies and it is becoming problematic to think of these two distinct fields in isolation. This discussion will focus on the intersection of copyright and privacy issues in the context of the recent consultations to amend Canada’s Copyright Act and how the concepts of /Privacy by Design/ might be applied to public policy as well as design concepts in the private sector.
In the area of privacy policies, there has been recent interest about extending privacy concerns to the level of design of technological systems. /Privacy by Design/ is a concept that is now being IT systems; business practices; physical design and infrastructure. Yet these principles may be also be fruitfully applied to the /design/ of public policies as well.
The recent round of submissions in the government’s copyright consultations, as well as many of the concerns raised about the provisions of Bill C-61, demonstrate that there are many outstanding copyright policy issues which directly implicate privacy interests including digital rights management, technological protection measures, the anti-circumvention rules and Internet Service Provider liability rules.
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