by: Obert Madondo | May 20, 2014 Call it the Harper Conservatives’ resurrection the Orwellian ghost of Vic Toews. Back in 2012, Canadians nuked the then public safety minister’s Bill C-30. The bill, deceptively christened Preventing Children from Internet Predators Act, had sought to give law enforcement agencies unlimited power to spy
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Toronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye, J.D. » Politics: Interview on Cyberbullying Legislation and Privacy Laws
Omar Ha-Redeye spoke to National Magazine TV on cyberbullying legislation and internet privacy. Critics have charged that Bill C-13 aims in part to revive a whole host of lawful access provisions from Bill C-30, the controversial internet-surveillance bill that the government dropped earlier this year following a public outcry. National wrote
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Bill C-13 Does Not Address Online Bullying
In spite of the Harper Government’s public claims to the contrary, Bill C-13 has very little to do with online bullying. It talks about a whole lot of things, but only a small fraction has anything to do with online bullying. At its core, it adds a few changes to
Continue readingLeDaro: Now What (and Especially WHO) Will Vic Toews Watch?
With all the bad news coming out of Canadian politics – dysfunctional Parliament, an arrogant, indifferent, and hard-rightwing prime minister – great to have some good news. The people spoke out, and won. On internet surveillance, Toews brought forward draconian, Big Brother style proposals with Bill C-30. Now Conservatives have
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: VICTORY: Canadians Killed Harper’s Internet Surveillance Bill C-30
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 12, 2013: Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s Internet surveillance Bill C-30 is dead. The demise of the deceptively christened Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act is a victory for the Internet. For Canadian democracy. For Canadians. Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson confirmed it yesterday when he announced that the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: It’s Back: How New Legislative Amendments are Bringing Online Spying Bill C-30 Back into Focus
A few months ago Canadians sent a loud, clear message to the Canadian government to StopSpying.ca. This followed the introduction of warrantless Online Spying Bill C-30, a bizarre piece of legis…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Privacy Commissioners Speak out Against Bill C-30
Last week, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police had called on the government to revive the invasive Online Spying Bill C-30 – legislation that would grant them warrantless access into the private data of citizens.
Now, three of Canada’s Info…
OpenMedia.ca: The Tyee: Police won’t say if they use cell phone surveillance technology
After last week’s push to revive invasive Online Spying Bill C-30, police are now refusing to comment on whether they have accessed Canadians’ cell phone data without a warrant. Call on your MP to speak out against this intrusive expansion of surveillance powers at OpenMedia.ca/Stand. Article by Andrew MacLeod for
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Law enforcement chiefs call for return of Online Spying Bill
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has called on the government to revive the invasive Online Spying Bill C-30, granting warrantless access to the private data of citizens. Law-abiding Canadians shouldn’t have to compromise their online security and privacy. If our police chiefs and government want to target criminals,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Is the Online Spying Bill C-30 gone for good?
A recent article has suggested that with the prolonged Parliamentary absence of Online Spying Bill C-30 – the warrantless legislation that would compromise Canadian Internet security – it could in fact be gone for good. We’re staying vigilant and pushing our government for a definitive promise to all Canadians that
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Online spying Bill C-30 threatens Canada’s national security
An access-to-information request from The Globe and Mail has revealed that Canada’s Communications Security Establishment has concerns about our nation’s network security. Specifically, the documents show that Huawei Technologies—a Chinese company that has become the world’s leading maker of telecom equipment—has been the subject of national security concerns. With all
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: CSIS Suspends Two Over Security Lapses
Last month we brought you news on how it had been revealed that CSIS wanted to help ‘advise’ Vic Toews on rewriting Canada’s Online Spying Bill C-30, all in the hopes that with their input the legislation would be passed through government. Although they want to bypass our Internet security
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: Proponents of Canada’s Online Spying Bill Still Trying to Justify Excessive Powers
A few weeks ago, we shared how Richard Fadden – director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service – had put forth an offer to help justify and tweak the Online Spying Bill (C-30) to make it more ‘palatable’ to the Canadian public. This proposed alliance between Toews and CSIS was
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC News: CSIS advising Toews on online surveillance bill
CSIS has expressed interest in adding their own provisions to the online spying bill, in the hopes that it will be passed through government. Letting the security lobby write its own laws is not a step in the right direction. In fact, it suggests how dysfunctional the law-making process has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Case of Luka Magnotta
About a month ago I made this little photoshop, because I was sure that Vic Toews would try to use the Luka Magnotta case to peddle his internet snooping bill. For a Con zombie is a Con zombie, and there is nothing Toews wouldn't do to rummage stumble through our
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Vic Toews To Use Magnotta Murder Case To Revive Internet Surveillance Bill C-30
In dictatorial regimes, tyrants rule by manipulating prevailing public emotions. They use the smallest emotional opportunity to create draconian laws that take away the people’s rights and freedoms. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has certainly learned a thing or two from this modus operandi. He wants to use Luka Rocco
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Bill that Wouldn’t Die
OMG. That'll teach me to stroll through a graveyard in Con Canada, when a Harper moon is in the sky. First I read that Vic Toews' internet snooping bill had quietly died. The Internet surveillance legislation sponsored by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has disappeared down a dark legislative hole. For
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Supreme Court fires a volley across Bill C-30 (& Harper’s) bow.
Think this decision ruffled a few feathers in the Conservative government today? The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Friday warrantless wiretap powers that police have in cases of emergency. The high court has given Parliament a year to re-write the law. Ruling in a 2006 British Columbia kidnapping case,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What Will Replace Section 13 Of The Canadian Human Rights Act
Rob Nicholson responds to my email. Comments below: Correspondence from the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Thank you for your correspondence concerning the Government’s proposed amendments to strengthen the hate crimes provisions of the Criminal Code. I regret the delay in responding. As you are aware, on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Christian Paradis and the Kafka Cons
OK. So let me get this straight. The Con stooge Christian Paradis is stumbling though an ethical mine field. The opposition is calling for a fresh ethics probe following new allegations about the conduct of federal Industry Minister Christian Paradis. The call comes less than a week after Conflict of
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