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 […]
Paul McLoed of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald is reporting that Canadian telecoms provided individual customer data to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) over 18,000 times in one year. This data includes the content of voice mails and text messages, websites visited and the rough location of where a cellphone call was made. The story suggests that […]
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 […]
Researchers at Stanford have reconfirmed in a new study that phone metadata can reveal the intimate details of someone’s life, even in a small sample size taken over just a few weeks. The study which has been conducted in the past few months was highlighted in the today’s Guardian. Here is how they collected the data: […]
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 […]
OpenMedia.ca has released a new video that explains how Bill C-13 threatens the privacy of all Canadians. As the Commissioner wrote in the National Post: …The government has deemed it necessary to proactively defend Bill C-13, as it is really just a new surveillance bill masked in sheep’s clothing. A few short pages which address […]
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 […]
Ian Macleod of the Ottawa Citizen noted that the Canadian government is quietly appealing a decision which reprimanded CSIS for misleading a judge. This story is one of the many examples of why strong oversight of our intelligence agencies is a necessity. The government is fighting a court decision lambasting its domestic spy agency and […]
