How reckless legislation like Bill C-51 is already affecting families here in Canada. Article by Never Home New anti-terror and security legislation grants extraordinary powers for surveillance, secret hearings, and preventative detention in Canada. Security: Refugees and permanent residents are facing secret trials, deportation or limbo due to tightened security processes.
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OpenMedia.ca: CBC: Most kids’ apps, websites collect and share personal information
When it comes to online data collection, children are the most vulnerable audience. Article by CBC News Most apps and websites for children collect personal information such as photos and addresses, and many say they may share that information with third parties, an annual global privacy survey suggests. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Vice: Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail
Update: The RCMP is now going after your mail. Article by Justin Ling for Vice With a federal election in its home stretch, Canada’s chiefs of police have issued a wish list of investigative powers they are hoping that the country’s next prime minister can deliver — everything from allowing
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Common Sense Canadian: Why privacy matters in this Canadian election
Most Canadians do not want to give up their privacy rights. This election, will you vote for online privacy? Pledge your vote at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Kevin Grandia for Common Sense Canadian While you are out this weekend enjoying the last days of summer on the beach and the RCMP come
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Attentiv: The Anonymity Impossibility
Today, half of internet users are concerned about the amount of their personal information that is available there. But is it really possible to be completely anonymous online? Here are some answers and cool facts about the ‘anonymity impossibility’. Article by Attentiv Anonymity and information privacy are hot issues.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Register: Canadians taking to spying on their spies
The Internet has changed Canadian politics. Issues like C-51 simply don’t go away. This election is our best chance to repeal C-51, pledge your vote at OurDigitalFuture.ca Article by Trevor Pott for The Register Comment As Canadians settle in for the longest general election campaign since 1867, some uncomfortable incidents that had
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Over 250,000 people shape action plan to save the Internet
ottawa_ourdigitalfuture.png Digital rights group OpenMedia releases comprehensive election platform packed with ideas crowdsourced from Canadians August 27, 2015 – It’s as if the entire city of London Ontario banded together to save the Internet. Shaped by more than 250,000 people and launching today, Canada’s Digital Future is a crowd-sourced election
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: WJS: Study Finds ‘Supercookies’ Used Outside U.S.
Bell Canada is one of the few carriers still using the evil ‘supercookies’ to track their customers. Thanks, Bell… Article by Elizabeth Dwoskin for WSJ Most major US wireless carriers are no longer using controversial identifiers that some researchers call “supercookies,” but their use appears to be extensive overseas. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: iPolitics: Top gun advocate turns on Tories, runs as Independent
Huge numbers of conservatives are speaking out against reckless Bill C-51. Despite Harper’s Conservatives’ efforts to keep the gun lobby in their camp, the sector warns about the dangerous power-grab this legislation gives the security sector, threatening Canadians’ privacy rights. Let’s keep fighting until we Kill C-51 –> KillC51.ca Article by Claire
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia criticizes police push for warrantless access to private Internet subscriber data
IMG_4697.jpg OpenMedia criticizes police push for warrantless access to private Internet subscriber data OpenMedia is extremely concerned by the proposal put forward by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police that would make it far easier for police to access Canadians’ online records without a warrant. The police proposal flies in
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC: CSIS secrecy hampers complaints and accountability
CBC Radio’s The Current discusses the BCCLA/Dogwood challenge against CSIS. Will we ever get to the truth of what did or did not happen? Join us and sign the pledge at https://bccla.org/dont-spy-on-me/ Article by CBC Radio The Dogwood Initiative is an environmental advocacy group in British Columbia. Its members have campaigned against the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Toronto Star: Group protesting spy agency says it’s shut out of probe
This is getting out of hand. We have to draw a line in the sand and pledge to say no reckless spy powers and secret courts. Enough is enough. Speak out https://bccla.org/dont-spy-on-me/#pledge Article by Jim Bronskill for the Canadian Press OTTAWA—A civil liberties group says it’s being kept in the dark
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: Trudeau On Bill C-51 Stance: ‘Perhaps It Was Naive’
No Kidding! So, what are you going to do about it now?- call him to change his tune at KillC51.ca Article by Althia Raj for the Huffington Post TORONTO — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau acknowledged Thursday that his position on the Conservative’s anti-terrorism Bill C-51 may have been “naive.” read
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CTV: File breach at electronic spy agency prompts mandatory privacy training
This is the agency our government is telling us to “just trust” with our secrets? Article by Jim Bronskill for CTV News OTTAWA – Canada’s electronic spy agency introduced mandatory privacy awareness training for all employees in March following an internal breach involving personal information. read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Toronto Star: RCMP tracked Toronto activists with fake Facebook profile
Would liking a page or an article about blacklivesmatter on your social profile get you tracked by the RCMP, looking for other “subversive” materials? Does sharing content about social equality make you an activist? Subversive? A target of the RCMP? And what’s next, under C-51… ? Article by Laurent Bastien
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Toronto Star: Canada’s electronic spy agency fears threat of informed public
Video by the Toronto Star The Communications Security Establishment seems to view an informed public as its adversary Until that changes, we should probably view the CSE as ours.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Toronto Star: CJFE and CCLA start constitutional challenge to C-51
We believe C-51 will not stand up to judicial scrutiny, and support all efforts to undo this unjust law. This is only one of many challenges that this reckless, dangerous and ineffective legislation is certain to face, unless politicians listen to the calls of almost 300,000 Canadians who have spoken
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Toronto Star: Misdialed fax number lead to privacy breach
A privacy breach is obviously a dangerous thing, but it becomes very strange when it comes form a fax machine. Is this the way we send secure documents? Article by Richard J. Brennan for the Toronto Star The Liberal government is blaming a misdialed fax machine for a privacy breach
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Confirmed: We didn’t need Bill C-51
Before C-51, laws and arrangements often allowed for the sharing of information for national security purposes. C-51 adopts an excessive approach that will harm online innovation, political discourse and our civil liberties. Speak out to get it repealed at KillC51.ca Article by The Canadian Press for CBC read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Tyee: Conservative MP repents for part of C-51 sermon
After a whirlwind of mockery on social media, MP Wai Young back-pedalled on some parts of her C-51 sermon… Article by Jeremy J. Nuttall for The Tyee Vancouver South MP Wai Young has apologized for one part of a controversial speech to a B.C. congregation, a talk that included a likening of
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