When you buy a smartphone or a laptop, that device should be completely yours; you ought to be able to do what you want with it. If you drop your phone off the fifth floor, and the screen breaks, you ...

You might not know this, but for some time now we’ve been running a weekly newsletter with a condensed overview of the week’s digital rights news, and of what we’ve been up to here at OpenMedia. Our ...

This is the story of all the things we did together to save the link. Yes, we built a network of nearly 100 organisations, gathered over 10,000 responses to the European Commission’s consultation on ...

The past year has been a rollercoaster on the digital rights front. But together, the OpenMedia community has achieved a lot. Here’s an overview of our wins and what’s on the horizon.

These piece by our Erin Knight was originally posted on Rabble.ca. Thanks to the growing global anti-racism movement, the world is opening its eyes to how police use of facial recognition fits into ...

Our government just unveiled a cynical plan to make Canada’s Internet one of the most censored and surveilled in the democratic world. It’s a classic bait and switch; using our real frustration with ...

Banner image courtesy of Rewheel, from "The state of 4G and 5G pricing, 2H2021 – country rankings" (2021) report. Canada just topped the global charts for expensive cell phone prices — AGAIN. This ...

-there will also be a MDD event in Ottawa at the end of the month, stay tuned.

Moreover, access to broadband Internet is increasingly becoming recognized as a right by the laws of several countries, including Finland and Spain. Many have argued that Canada ought to and give ...

Momentum is building among EU member states for a positive alternative to the controversial Link Tax — the imposition of unpopular new fees on the sharing of links and news snippets online. Leaked ...

OpenMedia has launched a new tool to help people request exactly what personal information Canada’s political parties hold about them. MyPoliticalData.ca is an easy-to-use tool that empowers people to ...

Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. Thanks to data ...