The question of so-called “grey marketing” or parallel imports continues to bedevil Canadian case law, having the potential to bring into play a challenging mixture of the law of contract, competition, trade-mark and copyright. | MORE 

On July 4, 2007, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down a municipal by-law passed by the City of Oshawa requiring pawnbrokers to collect, and share with police, detailed identifying information about persons selling second-hand goods. | MORE 

The United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program (US-VISIT) involves collecting digital fingerprints and photographs from most foreigners who visit the US. This biometric information is used to verify the identity of travelers, and is also checked against databases of known criminals and suspected terrorists. | MORE 

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) has asked the Canadian Competition Bureau to look into Google Inc’s (Google) proposed acquisition of DoubleClick Inc (DoubleClick). Similar requests have been brought by other public interest groups before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the European Commission (For a discussion of the complaints brought before the FTC, seen earlier article in E-TIPS®, “Microsoft, AT&T, and Privacy Watchdogs Call for FTC Review of Google-DoubleClick Deal“, Vol 5, No 21, April 25, 2007). | MORE 

Cellphone subscribers of Rogers Wireless Inc (Rogers) who use their phones in the United States are subject to roaming charges which can range from 95 ¢ per minute to, in “excluded areas”, as much as $4 per minute. A Quebec resident subscriber, Dr Muroff, used his Rogers mobile phone to make calls from Rhode Island and Maine, and was billed $4 per minute for these calls. | MORE 

The summer of 2007 appears to be a hot one for reports of cybercrime. In a one-week period in early August, these five reports of convictions or charges relating to a wide spectrum of IP and Internet-related crime were noted: | MORE