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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 19, 2013, at 3:15 pm
This article has been co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC, Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director, and Mark Rumold, EFF Staff Attorney. The Spies Without Borders posts are looking into how the information disclosed in the NSA leaks affect Internet users around the world whose private information is stored in U.S. servers, or whose data travels across U.S. networks. This article has been crossposted on the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Share this image, and speak up at: http://SecretSpying.ca
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 19, 2013, at 1:10 am
Canada’s government claims that its secret blanket surveillance of innocent citizens doesn’t capture content and only targets foreign communications. That’s nonsense. Privacy expert Michael Geist explains why.
We’re stuck with 20th century privacy protections in a world of 21st century surveillance. Canadians deserve better – keep speaking out at http://SecretSpying.ca. And don’t forget to share this image:
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 18, 2013, at 1:19 pm
While we continue pushing back against government imposed online spying, we want to report back and thank the community members who stepped up recently.
Back in May we sent you an appeal for an ad targeting the lead decision-maker behind the secretive and extreme Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). As you probably know by now, the TPP is an international agreement that threatens to censor your web activity.
I want to personally thank everyone who contributed and enabled us to publish your ad letting TPP chief Michael Froman know that we’re watching him!
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 17, 2013, at 8:23 pm
Last week, we told you that an intersessional meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership was quietly taking place in Vancouver. At the time, the Canadian government had not told the public or the media that any such negotiation was happening. We only learned about the meeting via Peruvian media. Despite the short notice, trade justice activists from across North America hit the town to express how they feel about this secretive agreement. You don’t have to light up the night sky with messages against the secretive agreement to have your voice heard. Speak out at http://OurFairDeal.org & share this image:
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 17, 2013, at 2:09 pm
This article has been co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC, Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director and Mark Rumold, EFF Staff Attorney. The Spies Without Borders posts are looking into how the information disclosed in the NSA leaks affect Internet users around the world whose private information is stored in U.S. servers, or whose data travels across U.S. networks.
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 15, 2013, at 8:34 pm
This is scary: The chair of a parliamentary anti-terrorism committee says he was “unaware of a federal spying program that allows for the collection of Canadians’ data trails.”
This secret spying on our private lives could affect anyone, at any time and we can’t even tell if we’re victims of it. Help us get answers by sharing the campaign using this link: http://tinyurl.com/lwoj5k7
Article by Colin Freeze for The Globe and Mail:
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By Lindsey Pinto, on June 14, 2013, at 3:24 pm
In light of recent revelations that a secretive Canadian spy agency has been collecting our sensitive personal data, MP Charmaine Borg asked for an emergency debate in the House of Commons yesterday. Her reasoning: “to allow parliamentarians to study in-depth the extent to which the personal information of Canadians, metadata or other, is being collected by police, law enforcement or national security agencies and to review measures that will result in appropriate parliamentary oversight and reporting.”
This debate would be a good step in bringing light to the near-total secrecy of electronic-eavesdropping agencies CSEC and CSIS. Canadians have been (Read more…)
By Lindsey Pinto, on June 14, 2013, at 2:44 pm
We’ve just learned that the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations have come to Canada for an intersessional round of talks.
iPolitics is reporting that negotiators are in Vancouver this weekend to discuss the TPP’s investment chapter. These “mini-negotiations” were not publicized by Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade – likely to curb any public protest over the controversial agreement, and to keep citizens and other stakeholders on the outside.
The TPP—known to many as the Internet Trap—is an international trade agreement that is being put together by a group of 600 industry lobbyist “advisors” and un-elected government trade (Read more…)
By OpenMedia.ca, on June 13, 2013, at 10:07 pm
Vous avez probablement entendu parler de l’agence gouvernementale américaine accusée d’espionner secrètement les communications privées de millions de personnes comme vous, à partir de leurs téléphones cellulaires1 et de services en ligne populaires tels que Google, Facebook et Skype.2
Maintenant, le Globe and Mail signale que le Canada possède sa propre agence agissant dans un secret quasi total et qui semble faire la même chose : recueillir et stocker impunément nos renseignements les plus confidentiels dans des bases de données colossales.3
C’est important : nous devons savoir quelles données confidentielles sont interceptées et stockées, et surtout pourquoi. (Read more…)
By Josh Tabish, on June 13, 2013, at 9:00 pm
Here is Arielle with your Weekly News Update, filling you in on the latest privacy threats for Canadians. Last week we heard about the NSA’s PRISM tool in the United States. We have received word that a secretive Canadian spy agency is currently collecting and storing our private information without oversight. We deserve to know where our sensitive information is going. Add your voice at http://secretspying.ca.
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 13, 2013, at 7:56 pm
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts has called on the current U.S. government to release documents being used to negotiate the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. In her letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, Warren says: “If transparency would lead to widespread public opposition to a trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not be the policy of the United States.”
We hope to see more public figures demand greater transprency around the Trans-Pacific Partnership – an agreement that could criminalize your daily use of the Internet. Take a stand: http://OurFairDeal.org/
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 13, 2013, at 1:16 am
The following article is cross-posted with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and was co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC and Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director. The article is part of the EFF’s Spy Without Borders series of blogs looking into how the information disclosed in the U.S National Security Agency (NSA) leaks affect the international community and how they highlight one part of an international system of surveillance that dissolves what national privacy protections any of us have, wherever we live.
Much of the U.S. media coverage of last week’s NSA revelations (Read more…)
By OpenMedia.ca, on June 12, 2013, at 10:11 pm
What a response! It’s been just over 24 hours since we launched our No Secret Spying campaign, and already over 10,800 citizens have signed up in support, along with a broad range of groups from across Canadian civil society. More people are signing up every minute, and we thank each and every one of you for your support – we know that our voices are strongest when we stand together.
Our No Secret Spying campaign was launched to protest the shocking revelations that an ultra-secretive spy agency called Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), was systematically collecting the private information of (Read more…)
By OpenMedia.ca, on June 12, 2013, at 4:50 pm
Security and Internet experts debate secret surveillance in Canada following revelations that Canada’s ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC may be conducting a mass surveillance of millions, similar to the U.S. National Security Agency. This secret spying on our private lives could affect anyone, at any time, and we wouldn’t even know about it.
Watch this video. Share this video. Take a stand: http://SecretSpying.ca/
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 12, 2013, at 11:32 am
Telus is abandoning its acquisition agreement with Mobilicity less than a week after Industry Minister Paradis blocked the company’s attempt to acquire Mobilicity’s spectrum – a highly valuable public asset which enables cell phones to communicate. Telus is refusing to comment on whether it plans to make a second bid for Mobilicity in February, when the ban on Big Telecom acquiring spectrum set aside for new entrants ends.
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 11, 2013, at 7:21 pm
In response to yesterday’s revelations that the ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC could be blanket-collecting our sensitive private information, the government’s own Privacy Commissioner’s Office ominously states, “we know very little specific information at this point, but we want to find out more.” We deserve to know if our sensitive private information is being recklessly collected and stored in giant databases, and why.
Demand what you deserve & share this image widely: http://SecretSpying.ca
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 11, 2013, at 1:47 pm SS_200x200_130610-1.png
Groups are rallying Canadians after revelations that the government has been spying on individuals’ private lives for years
June 11, 2013 – A group of organizations focused on civil liberties, pro-democracy, privacy rights, and open access to the Internet have joined to together to demand answers and immediate action from the government after it was revealed that a secretive government agency has been spying on the telephone and Internet activities of individuals, including law-abiding Canadians.
The organizations speaking out today include the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (BCFIPA), Council of Canadians, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, (Read more…)
By Steve Anderson, on June 11, 2013, at 8:19 am
You probably saw on the news that a U.S. government agency has been caught secretly spying on the private communications of millions of people like you – through their cell phones,1 and through popular online services like Google, Facebook, and Skype.2
Now, The Globe And Mail is reporting that Canada has its own agency operating in near-total secrecy that appears to be doing the same thing – recklessly collecting and storing our most sensitive private information in giant databases.3
This is important: We need to know what sensitive private data is being collected and stored, and (Read more…)
By OpenMedia.ca, on June 10, 2013, at 7:33 pm A good trade agreement must be transparent and include public input. Is the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a good deal? You decide.
Check out our edited version of a produced by our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation explaining why everyone should be concerned about the TPP.
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 10, 2013, at 2:20 pm
We’ve heard a lot of discussion over the last few days about why the National Security Agency’s invasive blanket surveillance of millions should concern all of us – including those who have nothing to hide. Here’s an article explaining why such data captures should be of concern to law-abiding citizens everywhere.
Take a stand to protect privacy: http://openmedia.ca/stand
Article by Ian Brown for The Guardian:
Many internet users will be feeling slightly bemused by the worldwide reaction to the revelations about US surveillance technology.
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 8, 2013, at 7:32 pm
The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion warns that the widespread use of surveillance technologies to monitor peoples’ communications violates the human rights to privacy and freedom of expression. He also argues that here is no way to ensure freedom of expression without respect of privacy in communications.
Read the full report here.
Sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom & share this mage: http://openmedia.org/declaration
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 7, 2013, at 2:13 pm
In the aftermath of yesterday’s revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, Canadians want to know if U.S. federal agencies are blanket-monitoring their communications. Without greater transparency, the answer is unclear.
We deserve to know. Demand greater transparency: http://openmedia.ca/stand
Article by Ivor Tossell for The Globe and Mail:
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 5, 2013, at 8:27 pm
Last week the Privacy Commissioner blew the whistle on extensive government spying conducted against well-known child advocate Dr. Cindy Blackstock.
The Privacy Commissioner revealed that the information the government systematically collected “reveals… who she is as a person, and not just information related to or attached to her professional responsibilities.”
Take a stand by sharing this image and demanding privacy safeguards at: http://openmedia.ca/stand
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 5, 2013, at 4:29 pm Hello!
Here’s Arielle with your update:
Watch Arielle’s video update to hear this week’s news. This week the CRTC released the new Code of Conduct for cellphone providers, and Industry Minister Paradis said he would block Telus from taking over Mobilicity. There is still more work to be done, add your voice at DemandChoice.ca.
For the Internet,
- The OpenMedia.ca Team
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By OpenMedia.ca, on June 5, 2013, at 2:27 pm Steve Anderson, OpenMedia.ca’s Executive Director, has had a busy week! Here he is on CBC to briefly talk about the CRTC’s new Code of Conduct and its implications for Canadian consumers moving forward.
OpenMedia.ca welcomes the new Code as a step in the right direction, although several important issues remain unaddressed. It is important to keep the momentum going in order to ensure real choice and affordability in Canada’s cell phone market.
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