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Glenn Greenwald: Why the CIA is smearing Edward Snowden after the Paris attacks – LA Times
New ATIP documents from CSE intranet – Bill Robinson
Lazy Encryption Practi…
Your news links for today:
Glenn Greenwald: Why the CIA is smearing Edward Snowden after the Paris attacks – LA Times
New ATIP documents from CSE intranet – Bill Robinson
Lazy Encryption Practi…
Must read: The free flow of information that journalist Hossein Derakhshan spent years in an Iranian jail for is dying. vHelp us #SaveTheLink: http://SaveTheLink.org
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The internet is in crisis – The Next Web
Terrorist attacks: Mass surveillance is the problem, not the solution – Ars Technica
What’s the Evidence Mass Surveillance …
Canadians don’t need to resign their privacy rights to feel safe. The recent events in Europe point to the urgent need to address C-51 and the inadequacies of Canadian oversight, while strking …
Continue readingIt’s been a busy month for digital policy initiatives at the European Commission. If you can believe it, they’re actually running six simultaneous public consultations on digital polici…
Continue readingWe all hate those daily telemarketing calls. What’s the CRTC doing to protect consumers? Not much, apparently.
Article by Jonathan Ore for CBC News
The CRTC published a list on Friday…
When it comes to Canada’s position on the TPP, we hear too often people confusing the the implications of reaching an agreement-in-principle, signing the text, and ratifying the deal. Digital p…
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Signing vs. Ratifying: Unpacking the Canadian Government Position on the TPP – Michael Geist
Paris attacks put Canada’s Internet privacy laws at risk: Geist – Toronto…
Last week, OpenMedia joined a huge coalition of groups protesting the TPP in Washington, DC.
The call to action, issued by FlushTheTPP brought together organizations and individuals from across …
Leading privacy expert Craig Forcese: “If anything, Paris underlines the need to organize our national security apparatus in the most efficient manner possible.”
Article by Evan Solomon for Ma…
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Homeland Security chair: ‘Biggest threat today’ is terrorists using encryption – The Hill
Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft warn weaker encryption makes the b…
Innocent citizens are inevitably and inarguably caught up in the StingRay’s dragnet – an explicit violation of our privacy rights. Here’s some positive precedent from our heighbours in the s…
Continue readingThe recent attacks in Paris, Beirut, and Mali have left the world shaken. Here at OpenMedia, as elsewhere, it’s been an emotional time, as we worry about our friends overseas going through tra…
Continue readingBell Canada (BCE Inc.) is rolling the dice on a political gamble that, if successful, will mean the death of affordable Internet access for Canadian households and businesses.
On October 21, The…
Now that the TPP deal is out, it’s time for an open debate.
Article by PressProgress
What the heck is going on with the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Do you know?
If you thought Can…
Civil liberty groups and experts are looking forward to an open consultation on C-51. Over to you, Minister Trudeau.
Article by Ian Macleod for the Ottawa Citizen
A coalition of about a do…
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Will Canada actually have a “full and open” debate on the Trans-Pacific Partnership? – Press Progress
Listen to Canadians before reforming Bill C-51, joint open lette…
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Organizations and academic experts say that following last week’s tragic events in Paris, it’s especially important that the government con…
Continue readingThis morning U.S. President Barack Obama declared that Canada and the U.S. will both “soon be signatories” to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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No culture of fear is going to make us sacrifice our privacy.
Article by Neil Macdonald for CBC News
An old acquaintance who spent years in Canada’s secret world, where he developed a you-don’…
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