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Andy Kaplan-Myrth
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@[email protected] and @kaplanmyrth most other places. I’m an internet and technology lawyer in Ottawa, interested in law, society, technology, boardgames, coffee, and kindness.
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Cannot believe our daughter is 17 today. She’s the most wonderful, smart, kind, strong woman.
Partying like she’s 17
January 27, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Today the Ontario IPC and OHRC jointly released our AI Principles. They are designed to help orgs develop, deploy, and use AI systems in ways that maintain the public trust while respecting privacy and upholding human rights.

Read the Joint IPC-OHRC AI Principles at: www.ipc.on.ca/en/resources...
Principles for the responsible use of artificial intelligence
The IPC and the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) have developed joint principles to guide the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. These principles are designed to help ...
www.ipc.on.ca
January 21, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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News release: Privacy Commissioner of Canada expands investigation into social media platform X following reports of AI-generated sexualized deepfake images - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada www.priv.gc.ca/en/op...
January 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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We’ve adopted a new policy clarifying how we’ll be using digital platforms to share our journalism

Going forward, we will expect any platforms we use to demonstrate basic commitments to user safety, information integrity and democratic values

Learn more: pressprogress.ca/journalistic...
Our policy on digital platforms
January 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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An unusual #CRTC decision dropped today: Eastlink has to continue to sell certain speeds to competitors even though they are not selling them at retail, signaling the CRTC's willingness to balance competition concerns against slavish adherence to past practice. crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/...
Telecom Order CRTC 2026-7 | CRTC
Gatineau, 9 January 2026
crtc.gc.ca
January 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them.

This report covers the period from April to June, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼

#Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy
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TekSavvy Solutions Inc. Quarterly Transparency Report Reporting period: April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025 Published January 2026 Introduction The purpose of this report from TekSavvy is to provide insight into our disclosure practices by detailing how often we receive and respond to government agencies’ requests for the personal information of our end users. This edition of our Transparency Report contains information about requests that we received between April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025. As of the date when this report was published, at least six months have passed since we received or responded to each of those requests. The Government of Canada has endorsed the development and issuance of transparency reports. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has subsequently developed Transparency Reporting Guidelines. Although we have adopted most of those Guidelines, we have decided to deviate in respect of how we present the data. <snip>
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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TekSavvy is the only ISP in Canada (AFAIK) that publishes detailed information about how we handle requests from law enforcement. You can learn more from our Law Enforcement Guide, which includes what info we have about subscribers, and when we do or do not disclose it. www.teksavvy.com/pol...
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TekSavvy Solutions Inc. Law Enforcement Guide TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is a provider of Internet access, voice telephony, and related telecommunication services. Hastings Cable Vision Ltd. is a broadcast distribution undertaking, Internet and voice service provider, and an affiliate of TekSavvy Solutions Inc. This document refers to both companies together as the TekSavvy Companies, or simply as “TekSavvy”. We retain subscriber information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. As innovators in the protection of online consumer rights, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers. The purpose of this Guide is to assist law enforcement agencies in understanding TekSavvy’s retention and disclosure practices. That being said, these practices are subject to change without notice. Table of Contents ...
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
andykm.bsky.social
📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them.

This report covers the period from April to June, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼

#Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy
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TekSavvy Solutions Inc. Quarterly Transparency Report Reporting period: April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025 Published January 2026 Introduction The purpose of this report from TekSavvy is to provide insight into our disclosure practices by detailing how often we receive and respond to government agencies’ requests for the personal information of our end users. This edition of our Transparency Report contains information about requests that we received between April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025. As of the date when this report was published, at least six months have passed since we received or responded to each of those requests. The Government of Canada has endorsed the development and issuance of transparency reports. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has subsequently developed Transparency Reporting Guidelines. Although we have adopted most of those Guidelines, we have decided to deviate in respect of how we present the data. <snip>
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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In happier news, it is our 27th wedding anniversary today. Jan 3, 1999, we braved the Toronto snowstorm of the century.

As much in love now.

Photos by Vince Pietropaolo
January 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them.

Last week, we published the report on Jan to Mar, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼

#Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy
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Screenshot of cover page: TekSavvy Solutions Inc. Quarterly Transparency Report Reporting period: January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025 Published October 2025 Introduction The purpose of this report from TekSavvy is to provide insight into our disclosure practices by detailing how often we receive and respond to government agencies’ requests for the personal information of our end users. This edition of our Transparency Report contains information about requests that we received between January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025. As of the date when this report was published, at least six months have passed since we received or responded to each of those requests. <snip>
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
andykm.bsky.social
📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them.

Last week, we published the report on Jan to Mar, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼

#Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy
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Screenshot of cover page: TekSavvy Solutions Inc. Quarterly Transparency Report Reporting period: January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025 Published October 2025 Introduction The purpose of this report from TekSavvy is to provide insight into our disclosure practices by detailing how often we receive and respond to government agencies’ requests for the personal information of our end users. This edition of our Transparency Report contains information about requests that we received between January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025. As of the date when this report was published, at least six months have passed since we received or responded to each of those requests. <snip>
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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From Peter Nowak's Do Not Pass Go podcast: "The Canadian SHIELD Institute: A rad, not radical think tank"
The Canadian SHIELD Institute: A rad, not radical think tank
Competition advocate Vass Bednar discusses how her agents of SHIELD plan to address the twin problems of Canadian sovereignty and economic concentration
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October 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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There's a new must-read/listen substack reporting on competition in Canada by and now-podcaster @peternowak.bsky.social. It's called Do Not Pass Go, and it promises to fill the void in competition journalism.
donotpassgo.substack.com
#cdnpoli #competition
Do Not Pass Go | Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak | Substack
Do Not Pass Go is delivering hard-hitting independent journalism focusing on competition and monopoly issues. Click to read Do Not Pass Go, by Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak, a Substack publication wit...
donotpassgo.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Important read:

“a faculty association should avoid adopting political positions unless expressly authorized in its constitution: the political line in the sand is spelled out in the constitution.”
www.caut.ca/bulletin/con...
Constitutional boundaries of faculty associations: The political line in the sand
www.caut.ca
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The tariff wall is real
nilikm.bsky.social Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD @nilikm.bsky.social · Sep 8
Husband went to send a birthday package to a friend who lives in the USA today and couldn’t because of tariffs. We already won’t cross the border to visit them. Now this. Fine, hosers, they’ll get their gift when they come to Canada. Our gift: a classic Bob and Doug McKenzie vinyl album. 🇨🇦❤️
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This was cathartic. I learned a lot about the education system through my work as a school board trustee in Ottawa. It was an honour to represent my constituents.

No surprise that they were shut down within days of my resignation. I hope they aren’t reinstated before addressing their dysfunction.
Signs out for garbage
September 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I wish Canadians were more familiar with the Amazon Antitrust Paradox and the Curse of Bigness. Allowing Bell, Rogers, and Telus to enter new markets is market dominance disguised as competition.

N.S.-based internet provider cries foul over federal regulations | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/cana...
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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As of today, TekSavvy is blocking two more sets of sites, as required by Quebec court orders: xt-dot-com and coinex.

Traffic to those sites is redirected to the gov's info page. But for transparency, TekSavvy also published information:

www.teksavvy.com/policies/int...
#TekSavvy #siteblocking
August 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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My family went on an epic Canadian roadtrip in a 2011 Mini Countryman, and check out this animation of it. We put a rooftop tent on our manual Mini (named Manuel). We drove from Ottawa to the west coast and back, visiting and camping in some of Canada's beautiful provincial and national parks.
August 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Opinion from Andrew Coyne: If Bell doesn’t like competing with Telus on its own broadband network, it really won’t like the alternatives
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail....
Opinion: If Bell doesn’t like competing with Telus on its own broadband network, it really won’t like the alternatives
The telco launched a campaign complaining about new rules forcing it to allow competitors to access its fibre network
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Opinion: Ottawa should reverse the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet access www.theglobeandmail....
Opinion: Ottawa should reverse the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet access
Broadband policy should be about improving and extending connectivity – enabling the competitive, entrepreneurial investment that makes it possible
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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It. Can’t. “Apologize.”
AI chatbot Grok issues apology for antisemitic posts
The chatbot wrote several antisemitic social media posts Tuesday after Elon Musk's company xAI released a revamped version of it days before.
www.nbcnews.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Bigger Data Analytics
mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Jul 11
thiiiiis

semantic search is CRAZY useful in how it can unlock the value of the vast majority of data, which is unstructured

the fact that LLMs can also summarize and recontextualize that unstructured data is truly a breakthrough

this is not by any stretch of the imagination AGI
karlbode.com Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Jul 11
A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money
July 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Join our last CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series: Telecommunications in Canada with Chairperson Vicky Eatrides and Deputy Executive Director Rachelle Frenette from the CRTC.

🗓 July 30, 2025
🕐 1PM EST
📍 Hybrid (in-person and online)
🎟 Free with registration → www.eventbrite.ca/e/cippic-sum...
CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series 2025: Telecommunications in Canada
Join us July 30 for Telecommunications in Canada, a conversation with two senior leaders from the CRTC.
www.eventbrite.ca
July 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM