TORONTO, May 28, 2014 – Members of the public, academics, and lawyers are exceedingly frustrated at hearing the same type of rhetoric from federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay. Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, is deeply disturbed by the intransigence of his refusal to remove the sweeping surveillance provisions from Bill C-13. If […]
In response to growing push back, Minister MacKay has chosen to ignore the voices of Privacy Commissioners, Civil Liberties Organizations and the opposition calling him on to split Bill C-13 in two bills. As reported by the Globe and Mail , MacKay isn’t budging despite the bills many privacy problems: Bill C-13 gives new tracking and […]
The Federal Government is now experiencing a major push back on the invasive search and seizure aspects of Bill C-13. Though labelled as a “Cyberbullying” Bill, privacy experts have numerous concerns about many of the powers it will provide police services. The Globe and Mail spoke with Commissioner Cavoukian about the bill: “This is […]
This past weekend, the Toronto Star looked at how U.S. companies are handling the Canadian government requests for the personal data of Canadians and discovered that large companies such as Google, Twitter and Yahoo are being much more careful about sharing consumer’s data than our national telecoms: But the numbers also raise questions about why U.S. […]
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 […]
