Study Says DRM Violates Canadian Privacy Laws 62
inkslinger77 writes "DRM technology used in consumer media may be violating Canadian privacy laws, according to a new report. The study, done by University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, found that a number of services like iTunes, Visio, and Symantec's North SystemWorks require too much personal information in order to verify their users. 'Another issue cited by [study lead investigator David Fewer] concerned the disclosure of DRM-collected personal information from users of Intuit's QuickTax software."It wasn't the use of QuickTax itself that triggered the concern, but rather the use of Intuit's online filing service where we found buried in one of the disclosures the notice that, as an international corporation, Intuit would send information across the border," Fewer said.'"
Re:Could this apply in the European Community too? (Score:3, Informative)
DRM (Score:2, Informative)
The line between DRM/registration and spy/adware is being blurred. Soon legal extortion will be the norm.
Re:Canadian Tariffs & International Jurisdicti (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Canadian Tariffs & International Jurisdicti (Score:5, Informative)
Foreign media companies are lobbying hard to have a "new" copyright law passed, but since the governments we have had for the last 3 years are minority governments, that law is not exactly a very high priority of politicians who are more inclined to do what people want...
And since the RCMP has admitted pulling piracy figures out of it's arse, the government is likely to be very sceptical about figured losses by any content industry, ever since it was foolish enough to railroad a law punishing camcording movies...
Link to the study. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Nice thought, but... (Score:4, Informative)
I'm not sure why, but the original submitted left out the link to the actual report [cippic.ca].