Author: Eva Prkachin

Do you think having democratic checks and balances over Canada’s spying agencies is “needless red tape”?  Article by PressProgress Sure, critics say Canadians may be watching their country turn into a surveillance state. But here’s one thing they don’t need to worry about: the Harper government promises it won’t create “duplication” and “needless red

Globe editorial: the Prime Minister “wants to turn our domestic spy agency into something that looks disturbingly like a secret police force.” Thanks to everyone here for speaking out and making this such a prominent issue. Article by The Globe and Mail Prime Minister Stephen Harper never tires of telling

Does mass surveillance, like the new laws the government proposed last week, actually make us safer? The answer may surprise you.  Article by Amber Hildebrandt, Michael Pereira and Dav Seglins for The CBC Mass trawling of internet data — as done by Canada’s electronic spy agency in a project dubbed

Yikes. Article by Anna Mehler Paperny for Global Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his government’s new counter-terror bill with dire warnings about the threats facing Canada from radical, freedom-hating groups on the other side of the world. “A great evil has been descending on our world,” he said in Richmond

This government has already proven itself untrustworthy when it comes to protecting Canadians’ privacy rights. So what do we have to look forward to when they introduce a new anti-privacy law on Friday? Article by PressProgress Civil liberties and public safety. read more

This piece is by Thomas Saczkowski and was originally posted in Rabble On January 28, International Data Privacy Day, my thoughts will be with the people around the globe who are imprisoned because of their online actions, and I am reminded of the imperative precautions we must take in protecting

CSEC has been exploiting advertising software to spy on Canadians’ smartphones. Article by Micah Lee for The Intercept British and Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, including location, app preferences, and unique device identifiers, by piggybacking on ubiquitous software from advertising and analytics companies, according to a

Mentoring, not more surveillance, is the key to stopping cyberbullying, according to this report. What do you think? Article by Maya Shoucair for Canadians Connected In a new report, funded in part by .CA, Media Smarts calls for a child-centred approach to media literacy to help deal with cyberbullying, sexting

When I was 16, I was goofing off in math class with a friend. I was probably wearing my At the Drive In t-shirt, my most prized possession and potent signifier of my burgeoning avant-garde taste in art. Wasting time in math class seemed a great way to show off

And these guys want to collect our private data… Article by Matthew Braga for Vice You’d think the new headquarters of one of the US’s closest cyber intelligence allies would make for one of the most secure construction sites in the world. read more