Communications
Alternative labels
Mass communication
Communications media
Communications policy
Report
Rewiring the web: the future of personal data
In this paper, the authors argue that the widespread use of personal information online represents a fundamental flaw in the digital infrastructure that enables staggeringly high levels of fraud, undermines people's right to privacy, and limits competition. This paper proposes a series of technical, regulatory, and institutional interventions that reimagine the foundations of a modern...
Report
Supporting safer digital spaces
The objective of this research was to create policy and legal recommendations to better protect vulnerable and marginalised populations, in particular women and LGBTQ+ people, from identity-based online harms.
Report
And now, the news: a national news media policy for Canada
The purpose of this paper is to frame a national consultation and to offer foundational policies for a national news industrial strategy. The authors argue that Canada needs a national news policy. Such a policy must, at all costs, avoid a direct funding connection between the government and newsmakers or news intermediaries.
Discussion paper
Public inquiry into the declaration of the domestic transmission capacity service, fixed line services and domestic mobile terminating access service: discussion paper
This discussion paper begins a combined public inquiry into whether nine wholesale telecommunications services that support the provision of broadband, voice and data transmission services should continue to be regulated.
Report
Weaponizing privacy and copyright law for censorship
Freedom of the press is facing growing restrictions from technology policies that censor the media under the guise of protecting privacy, including the misuse of regulations developed in the Global North that are detrimental to media outlets in the Global South. This paper offers solutions to protect news media from the silencing efforts of powerful...