Last week, we told you that an intersessional meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership was quietly taking place in Vancouver. At the time, the Canadian government had not told the public…
This article has been co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC, Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director and Mark Rumold, EFF Staff Attorney. The Spies Without Borders posts are…
This is scary: The chair of a parliamentary anti-terrorism committee says he was “unaware of a federal spying program that allows for the collection of Canadians’ data trails.” This secret…
In light of recent revelations that a secretive Canadian spy agency has been collecting our sensitive personal data, MP Charmaine Borg asked for an emergency debate in the House of…
We’ve just learned that the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations have come to Canada for an intersessional round of talks. iPolitics is reporting that negotiators are in Vancouver this weekend to…
Vous avez probablement entendu parler de l’agence gouvernementale américaine accusée d’espionner secrètement les communications privées de millions de personnes comme vous, à partir de leurs téléphones cellulaires1 et de services…
Here is Arielle with your Weekly News Update, filling you in on the latest privacy threats for Canadians. Last week we heard about the NSA’s PRISM tool in the United…
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts has called on the current U.S. government to release documents being used to negotiate the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. In her letter to U.S.…
The following article is cross-posted with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and was co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC and Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director. The article…
What a response! It’s been just over 24 hours since we launched our No Secret Spying campaign, and already over 10,800 citizens have signed up in support, along with a…
Security and Internet experts debate secret surveillance in Canada following revelations that Canada’s ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC may be conducting a mass surveillance of millions, similar to the U.S. National…
Telus is abandoning its acquisition agreement with Mobilicity less than a week after Industry Minister Paradis blocked the company’s attempt to acquire Mobilicity’s spectrum – a highly valuable public asset…
In response to yesterday’s revelations that the ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC could be blanket-collecting our sensitive private information, the government’s own Privacy Commissioner’s Office ominously states, “we know very little…
SS_200x200_130610-1.png Groups are rallying Canadians after revelations that the government has been spying on individuals’ private lives for years June 11, 2013 – A group of organizations focused on civil…
You probably saw on the news that a U.S. government agency has been caught secretly spying on the private communications of millions of people like you – through their cell…
A good trade agreement must be transparent and include public input. Is the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a good deal? You decide. Check out our edited version of a produced…
We’ve heard a lot of discussion over the last few days about why the National Security Agency’s invasive blanket surveillance of millions should concern all of us – including those…
The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion warns that the widespread use of surveillance technologies to monitor peoples’ communications violates the human rights to privacy and freedom…
In the aftermath of yesterday’s revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, Canadians want to know if U.S. federal agencies are…
Last week the Privacy Commissioner blew the whistle on extensive government spying conducted against well-known child advocate Dr. Cindy Blackstock. The Privacy Commissioner revealed that the information the government systematically…
