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’ […]

Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about the NSA spying on its citizens have sent citizens in search of a privacy-focused search engine – enter Privacy by Design Organizational Ambassador, Duck Duck Go. With over 1 billion searches in 2013, Duck Duck Go’s usage more than doubled after the release of the NSA files, demonstrating that online […]