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COMMENTARY: Double, secret confidentiality

OTT players were granted a new level of confidentiality, but to what end?SO, DID THE GLOBAL digital media powers respond to the CRTC’s request for their data by the March 2nd deadline? We have no idea.Last month, in order to help inform the report on the audio/visual content consumption patterns of Canadians which the CRTC is preparing for the federal government, a range of companies were asked to provide competitively sensitive information by the Regulator. Besides some of the usual Canadian suspects, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix and Spotify were asked for:top line subscription, advertising and other revenues for the...