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Thanks to TPP, Canada Could Get Caught in Global Privacy Battle
Thanks to TPP, Canada Could Get Caught in Global Privacy Battle Trade deal coupled with EU court decision could spell trouble for our laws. Two unconnected developments — a recent European privacy decision and the TPP — could create a major Canadian privacy problem. Privacy photo via Shutterstock. Amazon’s announcement last week that it plans to establish […]
Are You A Threat? Police Software Scans Your Social Media: “Very Dangerous For a Citizen”
Are You A Threat? Police Software Scans Your Social Media: “Very Dangerous For a Citizen” Sticks and stones may break my bones. But names will never hurt me. That old rhyme has been conventional wisdom for those bred in common sense and thick skins. But that world is fading away. Its replacement is a now-cemented […]
Meet “Beware” – The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life
Meet “Beware” – The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life As officers respond to calls, Beware automatically runs the address. The searches return the names of residents and scans them against a range of publicly available data to generate a color-coded threat level for each person or address: green, yellow or red. Exactly […]
NSA Spies on Congress
NSA Spies on Congress The NSA has been caught taping conversations between Capitol Hill and Israel. Glenn Greenwald reported that the “NSA under President Obama targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top aides for surveillance. In the process, the agency ended up eavesdropping on ‘the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S.’” He notes that those […]
Google is Collecting Information on Public School Students – Here’s How
Google is Collecting Information on Public School Students – Here’s How As a new parent, the idea of sending my children to public school is a frightening thought. The more you read, the more you realize the importance of extreme vigilance when it comes to what’s happening at whatever place you send your kids to for majority […]
NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes in Juniper Firewalls
NSA HELPED BRITISH SPIES FIND SECURITY HOLES IN JUNIPER FIREWALLS A TOP-SECRET document dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks, a leading provider of networking and Internet security gear. […]
Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015
Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015 A Turbulent Year In the course of 2015 we have witnessed several events that had, and will have, negative repercussions on individual freedom. Orwellian totalitarianism is increasingly creeping into our everyday lives. How much more intrusive will the violations of our liberties become and for […]
Global Angst over US Secrecy Fetish
Global Angst over US Secrecy Fetish With the reach of U.S. surveillance now global – and with the U.S. military deployed all over the world – anger at President Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers who disclose the U.S. government’s abuses and crimes has gone international, as this Norwegian opinion piece by Victor Wallis shows. The more extreme the crimes of state, […]
11 Years Later, We Finally Know What’s in a National Security Letter (It’s Bad)
11 Years Later, We Finally Know What’s in a National Security Letter (It’s Bad) Back in 2004, Nicholas Merrill, who was then president of Calyx Internet Access, received a National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI. These letters are notoriously authoritarian in that they come with a gag order that prevents the receiving party from even informing its […]
Post Paris, Are Canada’s Internet Privacy Laws at Risk?
Post Paris, Are Canada’s Internet Privacy Laws at Risk? Attacks may renew calls to go beyond Bill C-51 and restrict encryption technologies. The Paris attacks have also escalated calls to reconsider plans to reform Canadian privacy and surveillance law, a key election promise from the Trudeau government. Photo by Garry Knight, Creative Commons licensed. As […]
After Paris, there will be no stopping the surveillance state now
After Paris, there will be no stopping the surveillance state now Public surveillance increasing at an ‘accelerating rate,’ researchers say, with Europe leading the way CCTV footage of three British girls catching a flight to Turkey in February to join ISIS dominated the news media for days and likely contributed to the public thirst for […]
Meet the Institution Most Intent on Destroying American Freedom – (*Hint: It’s Not ISIS)
Meet the Institution Most Intent on Destroying American Freedom – (*Hint: It’s Not ISIS) In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will […]
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy LAST MONTH, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square. It was the first time we’d met in person; he first emailed me nearly two years earlier, and we eventually created an encrypted channel to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, to whom Snowden would disclose […]
