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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Ann Cavoukian and Avner Levin, Director of the Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute at Ryerson University, wrote the following important op-ed for this morning’s National Post: Last week, Canadians learned that the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) conducted a sweeping 2012 mobile, WiFi-driven warrantless surveillance operation. The operation involved the processing of at least two […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
