Andy Kaplan-Myrth :mapleleaf:

Telecom and Internet lawyer in Ottawa, open access/content/data/knowledge advocate. I work at TekSavvy, but views here are my own. I’m @kaplanmyrth on Twitter and most other places.

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2025-08-06 14:38:10 UTC

Opinion: Ottawa should reverse the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet access https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-crtc-wholesale-internet-access-ottawa-should-reverse/

2025-06-02 17:50:39 UTC

New government-speak just dropped (new to me, at least): "outreach" as a verb, as in, "We intend to outreach every participating organization, so if you know somebody who has not yet been outreached, please let me know.

2025-05-31 03:46:04 UTC

In a recent decision in an Ontario criminal court, a judge identified fake cases cited in defence submissions, apparently generated by AI. The judge gave defence counsel a chance to try again, but with strict rules to keep things above-board, including links to the cases in CanLII and pinpoint references: R. v. Chand, 2025 ONCJ 282 (CanLII) https://www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/doc/2025/2025oncj282/2025oncj282.html

2025-05-30 00:04:08 UTC

A new ISO standard has been published for AI system impact assessments:
“ISO/IEC 42005 provides guidance for organisations conducting AI system impact assessments. These assessments focus on understanding how AI systems — and their foreseeable applications — may affect individuals, groups, or society at large…”
It complements other ISO standards on, AI management systems, governance, and risk management by focusing specifically on the societal and human impacts of AI.
https://www.iso.org/standard/44545.html

2025-04-01 20:28:08 UTC

📢 Today, TekSavvy published another Quarterly Transparency Report
#TekSavvy is the only ISP in #Canada (AFAIK) to publish a quarterly Transparency Report documenting the requests we got from law enforcement agencies, how we handled them, and what we disclosed to them.
Today, we’re reporting on July to September, 2024 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼
#Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom
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2024-12-08 23:14:47 UTC

One of the greatest injustices of the iOS universe is that shovelling snow isn’t a Workout in Apple Watch. It’s definitely my main workout during the winter, and it’s like it doesn’t even count to our tech overlords.

2023-08-09 21:36:30 UTC

From Canadian tech reporter Bryson Masse: OpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-launches-web-crawling-gptbot-sparking-blocking-effort-by-website-owners-and-creators/