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A hacker goes to jail

By Deborah Jones The case of Jeremy Hammond, who victimized a private American security firm, is yet another the stranger-than-fiction tales of global surveillance, activism and espionage being churned out lately in the United States. Hammond, a self-described American anarchist, was sentenced in a U.S. court today to 10+ years in jail for hacking into the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., for which he had pleaded guilty. Hammond wiped information from company computers and stole millions of email messages along with some 60,000 customer credit card numbers. As Wired reports, “The emails went to WikiLeaks, while the credit cards were used

Gorden Pinsent

  Canadian actor, Gorden Pinsent, today, during rehearsals for tonight’s performance of A Lion Among the Ladies: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Mendelssohn’s incidental music (Op. 21/61) with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra in St. John’s, Newfoundland and their Master Works Series. Photo by Greg Locke © 2013.  …click to enlarge.

Labour’s freedom of expression trumps privacy, rules court

By Deborah Jones A union’s right to freedom of expression trumps people’s privacy rights in union disputes, Canada’s top court ruled today, in a constitutional case involving complaints against a union that photographed workers crossing picket lines. The Supreme Court of Canada decision overturned privacy legislation in the province of Alberta – though it gave legislators a year to fix it. Excerpt of the ruling: The central issue is whether (Alberta’s  privacy act) achieves a constitutionally acceptable balance between the interests of individuals in controlling the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information and a union’s freedom of expression.  This appeal requires

F&O reports on the Google/Authors Guild war

By Deborah Jones   Google won a skirmish today in the exhausting copyright war between the company and the United States’ Authors Guild, over Google’s project to digitally scan the world’s books. The guild maintains that Google Books violates the copyright of authors – and it’s been suing Google since 2005.   Today Judge Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favour of Google, saying the project has public benefits, constitutes fair use, and public access to digitized books is good for authors because it facilitates their book sales …. read Goliath 1 — Creators, 0 in

Jones: a Ford nation

Canada, once phlegmatic, is no longer a serious country. The national and global obsession with Toronto mayor Rob Ford confirms something Free Range columnist Deborah Jones increasingly suspected about Canada’s national character. The question is, how to respond. To laugh, or cry?    

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