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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

McMaster University's bookstore, Titles, has allowed the dreams of publication for authors to become a reality. In 2008, Titles purchased an Espresso Book Machine (EBM), a device which can print off ...

Transparency in requests for private data should become the norm - not only for what data is requested, but also by whom it is requested. The Internet should be open and our privacy should be ...

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

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 ...

Rogers is dissuading their customers from using public Wi-Fi networks (including their own), in order to promote their Internet sticks, report Michael Geist and Phillip Dampier of Stop The Cap (see ...

Spain’s largest and best known newspaper, El País, has just taken an impressive stand against the Link Tax, aka ancillary copyright. Today they published an op-ed (in Spanish) that severely criticises ...