A Notable Absence: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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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…
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…
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…
Fall Is Coming: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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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…
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…
Hitting Milestones: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pro-Privacy MPs: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
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