In this morning’s Globe and Mail, Colin Freeze reports that the former head of CSEC suspended a program which he felt was too invasive domestically. The program, launched shortly after 9/11, was started to seek out espionage threats: The program was reined in by former CSEC chief John Adams during his 2005-11 tenure. “I’m saying […]
Suggestions that CSEC receives regular funding from the NSA for both research and surveillance come from Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place To Hide. Ian MacLeod examined the new revelations in today’s Ottawa Citizen: The payment is minuscule compared with CSEC’s annual $500-million budget. Yet it is another example of the deep — some say troubling […]
Today’s Toronto Star features a thought-provoking editorial from Jesse Brown. He ponders why Canadians aren’t more concerned that their government is watching them: A strong majority, 60 per cent of respondents, said they would do nothing if they suspected the government was spying on them. The disparity in the two responses has been taken as […]
This past weekend a number of privcay issues made headlines. Professor Michael Geist published a deeply concerning article in the Toronto Star which voiced his concerns about how often Canadians phone data is handed over to law enforcement without a warrant: The absence of court oversight may surprise many Canadians, but the government actively supports the […]
President Obama plans to curb the NSA’s ability to collect phone data in new legislation according to a report in the New York Times. If passed, this might minimize one of most disturbing aspects of the NSA’s surveillance work: Under the proposal, they said, the N.S.A. would end its systematic collection of data about Americans’ […]
In the video above, Edward Snowden delivers a fascinating TED Talk discussing freedom, privacy and how to take back the internet. From Snowden’s latest documents, the Washington Post reported yesterday that the NSA is capable of capturing all of the phone calls made in America and reviewing the content of the calls for up to […]
Tech leaders from Google and Facebook are voicing their concerns with the NSA’s programs of mass surveillance: “The Chinese hacked us in 2010. The NSA hacked us in 2013,” Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told an audience at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, last week. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has made a personal plea to President Obama […]
Yesterday, Edward Snowden spoke to a packed room at the SXSW interactive conference in Austin, Texas via video conference. Full video of the presentation is above. As captured in the New York Times summary of the presentation, Snowden repeatedly emphasized the vital importance of the average user pressuring technology companies to protect our privacy. He conveyed that […]
The Mississauga News‘ Chris Horobin posted a convincing editorial this morning urging Canadians to push for improved laws to ensure protection from mass surveillance: Do you care that our own government is so cravenly collecting our personal data? The agency denies it, of course. So maybe American whistleblower Edward Snowden is wrong? His track record on […]
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 […]
