http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Michael Geist on CircleID en Copyright 2012, unless where otherwise noted. 2010-11-04T08:10:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101104_facing_up_to_the_generational_privacy_divide http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101104_facing_up_to_the_generational_privacy_divide More...]]> 2010-11-04T08:10:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100929_us_uses_domain_names_as_new_way_to_regulate_the_net http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100929_us_uses_domain_names_as_new_way_to_regulate_the_net More...]]> 2010-09-29T10:28:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/european_acta_document_leak_new_details_on_mexico_talks http://www.circleid.com/posts/european_acta_document_leak_new_details_on_mexico_talks More...]]> 2010-02-17T12:39:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091216_new_zealand_releases_revamped_three_strikes_proposal http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091216_new_zealand_releases_revamped_three_strikes_proposal More...]]> 2009-12-16T11:43:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091124_opposition_mounts_in_europe_to_three_strikes_proposals http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091124_opposition_mounts_in_europe_to_three_strikes_proposals More...]]> 2009-11-24T12:12:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091016_canadian_marketing_association_attacks_anti_spam_bill http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091016_canadian_marketing_association_attacks_anti_spam_bill More...]]> 2009-10-16T11:22:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090716_facebook_violating_canadian_privacy_law http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090716_facebook_violating_canadian_privacy_law More...]]> 2009-07-16T09:01:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090324_when_did_cira_become_commercial_internet_registration_authority http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090324_when_did_cira_become_commercial_internet_registration_authority More...]]> 2009-03-24T10:46:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090317_wipo_misleading_release_domain_disputes http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090317_wipo_misleading_release_domain_disputes release yesterday trumpeting an eight percent increase in domain name disputes handled by WIPO. In 2008 there were 2329 complaints filed with WIPO, the most ever. WIPO uses the increase to raise questions about the possible increase in the number of available generic top-level domains... More...]]> 2009-03-17T15:59:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081203_lawless_canada_spam_haven http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081203_lawless_canada_spam_haven More...]]> 2008-12-03T08:09:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081120_crtc_denies_throttling_net_neutrality http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081120_crtc_denies_throttling_net_neutrality More...]]> 2008-11-20T13:26:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_that_never_forgets http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_that_never_forgets More...]]> 2008-09-30T14:26:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/86103_cira_backdoor_whois_police http://www.circleid.com/posts/86103_cira_backdoor_whois_police glowingly about the new CIRA whois policy, which took effect today and which I described as striking the right balance between access and privacy. The policy was to have provided new privacy protection to individual registrants -- hundreds of thousands of Canadians -- by removing the public disclosure of their personal contact information... Apparently I spoke too soon. More...]]> 2008-06-10T14:45:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/85210_cira_whois_policy_privacy_access http://www.circleid.com/posts/85210_cira_whois_policy_privacy_access CIRA whois policy that is scheduled to take effect on June 10, 2008. The whois issue has attracted little public attention, yet it has been the subject of heated debate within the domain name community for many years. It revolves around the whois database, a publicly accessible, searchable list of domain name registrant information (as in "who is" the registrant of a particular domain name). More...]]> 2008-05-02T09:54:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/841710_bell_p2p_bandwidth_problem http://www.circleid.com/posts/841710_bell_p2p_bandwidth_problem More...]]> 2008-04-17T10:17:00-08:00