The Canadian government should take notice. With Bill C-13 now becoming the law, and Bill C-51 before the Parliament (another piece of legislation with huge implications for privacy and freedom of expression), I think it’s only a matter of time before the Canadian courts will have a hard look at…
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the previously disclosed Snowden documents: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/ https://openmedia.ca/news/breaking-spy-agency-cse-monitoring-our-private-online-activities-massive-scale-and-sharing-sensitive
Saw Citizenfour at Cinecenta Victoria last night. For those who have been living under the rock, it’s a documentary about Edward Snowden’s revelations about the massive NSA spying on its own citizens (and elsewhere). You can watch the official trailer here: From film-making perspective, the film is so-so. I am not sure…
This has popped up in my inbox a couple of times over the last few weeks. I think it’s an important initiative, and decided to share. It’s an online tool to write a letter to editor to your local newspapers, expressing your disapproval of Bill C-13. https://openmedia.org/SpyBill/
(Cross posted from Facebook) An emotionally charged weekend. Twenty five years ago tomorrow, the Berlin Wall came down. I’ve added a post about that day on my freedom-25.ca website. I took a bit of hiatus from writing there… a lot of the memories and recent events were just too painful…
On October 20, 2013, the House of Commons vote approved the “Cyber bullying” bill C-13. I don’t have to go into details on all the problems with the bill, you can google it. That the conservatives voted in favour is not surprising – they sponsored the bill, and the government…
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair says the man behind last week’s shooting in Ottawa was not a terrorist. Predictably, PM Stephen Harper took issue with Mulcair’s comments. Even more predictably, the intellectual heavyweight as he is, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau offered a deep thought in the form of “The RCMP was clear,…
This week, it was revealed that two of the most powerful software companies transmit private data to their servers. In case of Apple i-Cloud, even the contents of unsaved documents are transmitted. Have you ever typed a letter, only to find it too harsh, and decided not to send it?…
Internet would have been East Germany secret police pipe dream: http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-stasi-spied-on-social-networks
A fascinating account on how easy it is to ‘de-anonymize’ publicly available data: http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/