Tag: online spying

RT’s Meghan Lopez talks with OpenMedia’s Executive Director, Steve Anderson, about Canadian complicity in NSA spying and new revelations from the Edward Snowden files about spying on world leaders at the G8 and G20 Summits in 2010. It’s no longer a surprise that the U.S. NSA is spying on world

This guest blog by McGill students Jassie Badion, Alexandra Bokos, Zineb Loulichki, and Charlie Tran examines how the Russian government is using extensive online spying to undermine the digital rights of its LGBT community. Their article focuses on the digital surveillance measures the Russian government is implementing for the upcoming

Colin Freeze has published an excellent expose in The Globe and Mail about the government’s expensive and out-of-control spy bureaucracy CSEC over the weekend. The lengthy piece, entitled How CSEC became an electronic spying giant is well worth a read but if you want the Coles Notes version, we’ve pulled

Canada, your government wants to monitor your social media habits around the clock. The bigger question is: What do they want with your information? From the Canadian Press: Big Brother is watching you — on just about every social-media platform you can imagine. Tweets, public Facebook posts and YouTube videos

This story is harrowing – and it shows just how out-of-control unlawful government spying on law-abiding Canadian citizens really is. We’re fighting hard against these threats. You can too. Join us, together with the largest pro-privacy coalition in Canada, at https://OurPrivacy.ca Article by Valeria Hauch for the Toronto Star: Ellen

It’s difficult to believe that it’s been less than six months since the whole world learned that the U.S. government was collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans. Edward Snowden wasn’t the first whistleblower to sound the alarm about the U.S. National Security Agency’s online spying system – but

It looks like momentum is building against the government’s new online spying legislation. This afternoon, the official opposition NDP issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that legislation aimed at tackling the important issue of cyberbullying does not become a government free-for-all when it comes to scooping up

This senator describes current oversight of ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC as a “non-system of zero legislative accountability”. OpenMedia.ca is standing with the BC Civil Liberties Association against mass spying on innocent Canadians at anytime, without a warrant. Learn more at https://OpenMedia.ca/CSEC From The Canadian Press: OTTAWA – Conservative Sen. Hugh

Last week saw the announcement of dangerous new online spying legislation – supposedly aimed at tackling the serious issue of cyberbullying. According to legal experts, Bill C-13 consists of just 2.5 pages aimed at cyberbullying – and 65 pages aimed at making it easier for the government to spy on

Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian speaks out in support of our privacy rights, after the government’s new online spying bill threatens to diminish the rights of law-abiding Canadians. Support Canada’s largest pro-privacy coalition at http://OurPrivacy.ca From the Privacy Commissioner’s Office: We can all agree that cyberbullying is an issue that needs

What on earth is the connection between the serious issue of cyberbullying and the theft of cable TV and WiFi? What about the connection between cyberbullying and enabling government bureaucrats to spy on your everyday online activities? That’s a question that many concerned Canadians have been asking since yesterday’s announcement

Earlier this year, we told you about how a Federal Court in Montreal ordered Distributel, an independent Internet service provider (ISP), to reveal the identities of its customers who allegedly infringed copyright of materials belonging to film companies NGN Prima Productions and Riding Films Inc. According to the motion, the

Keep it up, Canada! Your calls for greater oversight of our spy agencies is having an impact. Two political parties have already called for parliamentary oversight of ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC’s activities. Now, this head of Canada’s main spy watchdog says new rules – and possibly legislation – is needed

CSEC spying is not a partisan issue – here’s another political party calling for oversight and accountability when it comes to illegal CSEC spying on the private information of Canadians. Learn more about Canada’s largest privacy coalition: http://OurPrivacy.ca From PostMedia News: OTTAWA – The federal Liberals want to form a

We’re off to a great start! Just weeks after the launch of Canada’s largest-ever pro-privacy Coalition, it seems the whole country is demanding answers on the government’s out-of-control surveillance. With op-eds and news articles appearing in what seems like every major national publication, a powerful momentum is building that decision-makers