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OpenMedia.ca: Online Spying Bill absent from government list of fall priorities
I spy with my little eye something that is missing from the government’s fall calendar. It’s something that’s been highly controversial, would become an invasive measure towards Internet surveillance, and would provide authorities with warrantless access to our private information. Out of guesses? It’s the hotly-contested Bill C-30, otherwise known
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Inside the government’s online spying task force
What’s 340 pages long and contains emails, meeting transcripts, and talking points? Proof that the government has been intently monitoring—and thus actively disregarding—the public outcry against warrantless online spying bill C-30 since day one. (I realize that as a joke, this is weak. As a government practice, however, this is
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Minister Toews still pushing online spying bill C-30, ignoring due process and police resourcing
Parliament resumes this month, and as Tim Harper of the Toronto Star asserts, the highly unpopular online spying bill, C-30, is still high on the government’s agenda. As there’s little on the books for the fall session of Parliament, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is taking the opportunity to once
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Fall Is Coming: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: CSIS Suspends Two Over Security Lapses
Last month we brought you news on how it had been revealed that CSIS wanted to help ‘advise’ Vic Toews on rewriting Canada’s Online Spying Bill C-30, all in the hopes that with their input the legislation would be passed through government. Although they want to bypass our Internet security
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Where we are today
Lobbyists have been seeking greater control over the Internet on multiple fronts – but citizens have been coming together in huge numbers (and across borders) to use the Internet to save the Internet. This is revolutionizing politics around the world. As we head into fall, we’re energized to see that
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Hitting Milestones: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Ars Technica: Privacy protections must keep pace to protect against digital dragnets
If we don’t stand together now, we’re looking at a future where corporations and governments could access the private information of any citizen at any time. We don’t want this for Canada. But there are two strong threats to our Internet freedom on the horizon: the secretive and extreme TPP
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: U.S. spying bill CISPA defeated on the Senate floor
After a long battle, the global pro-Internet community saw a victory today as U.S. online spying bill CISPA was defeated on the Senate floor. Like Canada’s online spying bill C-30, CISPA would give the U.S. government access to residents’ personal data with few restrictions or privacy safeguards. Though in April,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: Proponents of Canada’s Online Spying Bill Still Trying to Justify Excessive Powers
A few weeks ago, we shared how Richard Fadden – director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service – had put forth an offer to help justify and tweak the Online Spying Bill (C-30) to make it more ‘palatable’ to the Canadian public. This proposed alliance between Toews and CSIS was
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Local Action Against Online Spying
The recently formed OpenMedia.ca Street Teams have been hosting local screenings of our (un)Lawful Access mini-documentary in support of the Stop Online Spying campaign. So far, petition drives and screenings have been held in the cities of North Vancouver, Burnaby, and Vancouver where OpenMedia.ca supporters, volunteers, and policy experts like
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC News: CSIS advising Toews on online surveillance bill
CSIS has expressed interest in adding their own provisions to the online spying bill, in the hopes that it will be passed through government. Letting the security lobby write its own laws is not a step in the right direction. In fact, it suggests how dysfunctional the law-making process has
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Winnipeg Free Press – A judgeship for Toews
Looks like Toews is looking for an escape route after insulting Canadians with his warrantless online spying plan (Bill C-30). We’re continuing to press on with our StopSpying.ca campaign, but as for Toews the jury isn’t out just yet. We’ll be keeping a watchful eye to see what he does
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: U.S. will be allowed to share Canadians’ private information
It’s amazing that together we stopped the government from passing its online spying bill, Bill C-30, within the last session of Parliament. However, it appears the government is putting other spying pieces into place. We need to continue to hold the line against C-30, the new “Perimeter Security” deal with
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Parliament is on summer break; the online spying bill will have to wait
The Conservative Party said they’d pass the online spying bill in their first 100 days as majority government and we, together, stopped them. The House of Commons has adjourned, and MPs won’t be back in Parliament until September. Given Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ statements and ongoing PR push, this
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CNET: Government censorship online coming from western democracies
We need to be especially vigilant as Minister Toews continues to attempt to install his warrantless online spying scheme, Bill C-30, and as Canada considers signing onto the secretive and controversial TPP agreement, which, among other things, would step up the restrictions from controversial copyright bill C-11 and expand Big
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Jesse Kline: Online spying in the U.K.
The U.K., which is already a hotbed of surveillance, is looking to expand their online spying regime in a way that’s very similar to what we may be facing here in Canada. As intrepid academic Christopher Parsons has noted, the U.K.’s invasive surveillance system comes riddled with communication errors and
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canada.com: Canada’s warrantless surveillance bill is back, with surveillance powers for US gov’t, too
An upcoming deal with the U.S. could expand the warrantless surveillance in the proposed bill C-30 to apply to U.S. authorities, allowing them to access Canadians’ private information. As the article below shows, after we revealed the U.S. connection in our latest letter to supporters (subscribe here) the momentum has
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Pro-Privacy MPs: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
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