Commissioner Cavoukian appeared on last night’s Power and Politics to discuss the urgent need for more oversight of CSEC and the true value of metadata. Though both the Prime Minister’s National Security Advisor, Stephen Rigby, and the head of CSEC, John Forster, tried to dismiss the importance of metadata as simply “data about data”, this […]
Last night, Greg Weston of CBC’s National (video above) delivered the latest revelation from the Edward Snowden documents that CSEC had tracked thousands of ordinary airline passengers through major airports and for days after. Experts including Dr. Cavoukian, Wesley Wark and Ron Diebert weighed on the new CSEC document in the video below: Ron Deibert […]
Yesterday, Commissioner Cavoukian spoke with CBC News (above) and Global News about the urgent need for oversight of CSEC at her International Privacy Day Symposium in Toronto. The conference featuring a variety of civil liberties and security experts is available to view here. Earlier in the week, the Commissioner spoke with Howard Green on BNN’s Headline News, […]
Commissioner Cavoukian contributed the following opinion piece to this morning’s Globe and Mail: Technology allows our every move to be tracked, collected and catalogued by our governments. U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement of reforms to the National Security Agency (NSA) demonstrates that free and open societies need a candid discourse on the surveillance powers of […]
CBC’s the National raised questions this weekend about how the Canadian government should respond now that Obama has publicly announced NSA reforms. In the story above, Commissioner Cavoukian expresses her deep concern about CSEC’s lack of transparency and accountability. This Sunday’s New York Times carefully examined Obama’s proposed overhaul and suggested that this is simply the […]
The amusing comic above is from Ruben Bolling’s comic, Tom the Dancing Bug. The humour does not end there as apparently the Pentagon may suspect that big data is a threat to national security. As Obama prepares to address Americans this morning, two articles discuss Canada’s silence on the surveillance issues. Michael Geist published […]
Toronto, ON, January 15, 2014 — The Edward Snowden revelations have highlighted how little Canadians know about their own government’s surveillance operations. The questionable activities of the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) and its “Five Eyes” partner, the NSA, have shown that we are vulnerable to both indiscriminate data collection and warrantless surveillance. There has […]
Praise for the Edward Snowden’s sacrifices comes from an editorial written by Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The writer suggests Snowden’s efforts will long be remembered as heroic: Edward Snowden is a courageous American hero and will be remembered as one long after the “war on terror” is replaced by some other pretext for […]
Fascinating observations from David Pugliese’s Defense Watch blog published this weekend. Apparently, CSEC (now referring to itself as just CSE) has published new materials explaining what the agency does and they appear to be contrary to previous statements. In the past, the agency has denied its ability to spy on Canadians; however, these new fact sheets seem […]
As even more alarming details about the NSA’s methods were published this weekend, the calls for changes to the surveillance and security polices of Canada continue to grow louder. The National Post‘s Jesse Kline composed an insightful editorial about the pressing need for a national debate outlining that it is not a partisan issue, rather an […]
