Leaving the backdoor open: Is the government putting your personal data at risk?
Giant. Unsecured. Data registries. As if it wasn’t bad enough that secretive government agencies are intercepting our personal data. read more
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Service Providers Not Copyright Cops | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Arielle with your update: This week, we’re discussing an important lawsuit where film studio Voltage Productions is demanding that Teksavvy Solutions, an independent ISP, hand over the private…
Privacy expert Michael Geist discusses government transparency
The demand for government transparency is heating up again after recent revelations about global secret surveillance programs, including the activities of ultra-secretive Canadian spy agency CSEC. Here’s Privacy Expert Michael…
Edward Snowden answers reader questions
Last week, Edward Snowden, the whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in the history of the U.S. National Security Agency, answered questions about the revelations from the public. You want…
Outdated Privacy Protections in Canada | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Arielle with your update: Here is Arielle with your Weekly News Update. We must put pressure on our government to secure our rights to privacy. Already, over 12,000…
An International Perspective on FISA: No Protections, Little Oversight
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…
The Tyee: Why Canadian laws are no longer effective in protecting privacy
Canada’s government claims that its secret blanket surveillance of innocent citizens doesn’t capture content and only targets foreign communications. That’s nonsense. Privacy expert Michael Geist explains why. We’re stuck with…
U.S. Foreign Intelligence: From carte blanche surveillance to weak domestic protections
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…
The Globe and Mail: Head of Senate anti-terror committee unaware of Canada’s secret surveillance program
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…
MP Borg calls for parliamentary debate on secret spying activities
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…
C’est un secret que vous devriez connaître
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…
What a response! Canadians speak out in the thousands to demand an end to secret spying
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…
CBC: Security & Internet experts debate secret surveillance in Canada
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…
Privacy Commissioner’s office states that it has little information about ultra-secretive CSEC spying on Canadians
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…
Civil liberties, pro-democracy, privacy rights, and open Internet groups call for answers on secret government spying program
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…
Who’s watching you?
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…
Nothing to hide, nothing to worry about: Why NSA surveillance should be of concern to all law-abiding citizens
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…
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression warns against communications surveillance
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…
RCMP officers reprimanded for breaches in civilian privacy
Recent documents shed some light on why some RCMP members in Manitoba have been reprimanded for abusing their time on duty and the resources available to them in order to…
Conservatives spamming the email accounts of public servants
The Conservative Party of Canada is accessing contact information from government agencies to use for their PR efforts. Will political parties be able to access citizen data this way too?…