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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: russell_-at-_flora.ottawa.on.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 9 Aug 1999 11:35:15 -0400
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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/>
Is the inheritance you are leaving your children in the form of debt?
http://www.flora.org/flora.action-forum/709
Lets live up to our responsibilities.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:29:48 -0300
From: Michael Gurstein <mgurst@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA>
Reply-To: Universal Access Canada / Canadian Coalition for Public
Information <CPI-UA@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA>
To: CPI-UA@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA
Subject: [CPI-UA] FW: A provincial view on privacy (fwd)
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Sternberg [SMTP:samster@istar.ca]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 8:27 PM
To: Colin J. Williams; Craig McKie; David E. Churbuck; EFREM; Felix
Stalder; Garth Graham; ih working group; Ken Wyman; Phil Morton; Vicki
Whitmel
Subject: A provincial view on privacy
Ontario Promotes Private Crypto
by Matt Friedman
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21140.html
3:00 a.m. 6.Aug.99.PDT
While the US Congress recoils in horror at
the prospect of a population armed with
cryptographic tools, a government
department in Ontario wants to make it
clear that encryption is good.
More than that, in a paper released
Thursday, the Ontario Information and
Privacy Commission said it wants
everyone to learn to use encryption.
See also: Report: Crypto Will Harm
Society
"What we need is a shift in the mindset of
how to use information," said Ann
Cavoukian, Ontario's privacy
commissioner. "A lot of people still think
that their email is safe from prying eyes
or tampering. That's not true. We have to
protect ourselves, and we have to know
how to use the tools.... We have to get
that message out."
It's a message driven home in E-Mail
Encryption Made Simple, a how-to
pamphlet available at the commission's
offices, by mail, and on the Web. The
pamphlet, which also points readers to
crypto software vendors, is part of an
initiative to get Ontarians to protect their
privacy with personal encryption.
"In the first sentence, the commission
says that encryption is necessary, and
that's true," said David Jones, president
of Electronic Frontier Canada. "It's good
to see a government department
endorsing this technology and that
encryption is something that everyone
should know about and use."
The Ontario Privacy Commission initiative
is the strongest endorsement of personal
encryption technology in Canada since
federal Industry Minister John Manley
announced Canada's crypto policy last
fall.
Cavoukian said the initiative is an
essential part of her mandate. "It's like
getting your children to brush their teeth.
Getting people to use encryption is just
something that we have to do. It's part
of our job."
In addition to investigating complaints
and ensuring that government
organizations follow Ontario's privacy
policy, the commission is responsible for
public education.
It's a unique job that reflects Canada's
policy differences with the United States
on privacy and cryptography. The
prevailing opinions in Washington strongly
oppose the widespread deployment of
personal encryption, said David Sobel,
general counsel to the Electronic Privacy
Information Center.
"We've seen a little movement," Sobel
said. "Some states have taken initiatives
on digital signatures and enlightened
governments -- even enlightened people
in the US government -- have recognized
the importance of personal encryption
technologies."
Jones is skeptical whether Ontario's
encryption primer will, by itself, achieve
the goal of selling the technology to the
broad public.
"One document won't open eyes," he
said. "But it's part of an important
process. If enough people say
cryptography is a good thing, and it's
endorsed by organizations and individuals
who people respect, then it'll start to
catch on. It'll go mainstream."
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