Canada’s official privacy watchdogs have a clear message for the government: Don’t undermine our privacy rights with new spying legislation. Do you think the government will listen? Don’t forget to…
ProtectOurPrivacy403.png Responding to the government’s tabling in Parliament of Bill C-44, which proposes new powers for spy agency CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), OpenMedia executive director Steve Anderson said: “Canadians…
It’s been a tough week for all of us. I’ll never forget checking the news on Wednesday morning and discovering that Parliament – the very symbol of the Canadian rights…
WATCH LIVE: Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald will speak in Ottawa about privacy, state surveillance, and its impact on Canadians. This event is organized by Bill Owen of Eyestir Communications,…
Mass surveillance is “corrosive of online privacy” according to U.N. special report. Article by Owen Bowcott and Spencer Ackerman for the Guardian Mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies…
Why did major Canadian news outlets refuse to report on CSEC spying and the Snowden documents? Article by Jesse Brown for CANADALAND Last Tuesday evening at CBC’s Toronto headquarters, CBC…
PrivacyPlan_fbshare.png Launch of new pro-privacy crowdsourcing initiative comes just days after Peter MacKay’s online spying Bill C-13 passes House of Commons, and follows over a year of revelations about the…
Shocking: the government knew that innocent Canadians were being spied on in massive numbers, but didn’t bother to find out the scope of these privacy invasions until the media started…
ProtectOurPrivacy403.png Controversial bill is opposed by huge majority of Canadians, with even the government’s own supporters opposing it by over 2.5:1 October 20, 2014 – The government looks set to…
If you’re in the Ottawa area on October 25, don’t miss Glenn Greenwald speaks. Tickets are still available here. If you can’t make it, or want a sneak preview of…
When groups as diverse as the Council of Canadians and the National Firearms Association are both opposed to your online spying Bill, you’ve got a real problem. Lucky for this…
Over 30 individuals and organizations concerned with women’s equality online call on Canadian MPs to vote against the Conservatives’ Bill C-13, the deceptively named “Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act”.…
MPs are set to return to parliament today and vote on a controversial bill that could give spies more power to access your private information. Got a problem with that?…
If you’ve been following this space, you might already know that OpenMedia is sponsoring a talk with Glenn Greenwald in Ottawa on October 25. Greenwald is the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist…
You won’t believe what this Access My Info tool user found out about his customer service records. Try for yourself at https://www.openmedia.ca/myinfo Article by Joe Fries for The Penticton Western…
New poll puts Peter MacKay and the government squarely on the opposite side of the people when it comes to online privacy. If you’ve had enough of govt spying, speak…
Peter MacKay’s online spying Bill C-13 is not likely to pass constitutional muster and has drawn the ire of tens of thousands of Canadians for its privacy-invading implications. So why…
So remember that time that the government tried to pass a law that would grant telecoms immunity for handing Canadians’ private information over to government agencies without a warrant? And…
Why is the government trying to ram through a Bill that the Supreme Court has already deemed unconstitutional? Help us get the word out about this shameless Bill at https://openmedia.org/privacy/donate…
shameless_mackay.png Radio ads set to air in MacKay’s riding, as Gov’t prepares to ram Bill C-13 through House of Commons, despite opposition from tens of thousands of Canadians and a…
