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On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer
On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer Even in the security-über alles climate that followed 9/11, the Patriot Act was recognized as an extreme and radical expansion of government surveillance powers. That’s why “sunset provisions” were attached to several of its key provisions: meaning they would expire automatically unless […]
Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves
Latest Privacy Revelations Show It’s Up to Canadians to Protect Themselves The most important self-help step? Get into encryption Another week, another revelation originating from the seemingly unlimited trove of Edward Snowden documents. Last week, the CBC reported that Canada was among several countries whose surveillance agencies actively exploited security vulnerabilities in a popular mobile web browser […]
Canada Steps Out of Peacekeeper Role and into the Unknown
Canada Steps Out of Peacekeeper Role and into the Unknown The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), intelligence, and border surveillance agencies have drawn hundreds of millions of dollars to “combat terrorism” in a federal budget that made special reference to the murder of two Canadian soldiers in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Ottawa last October. While there is […]
“Strongly Dissatisfied” China Warns US “Accident” Is “Highly Likely” In South China Sea
“Strongly Dissatisfied” China Warns US “Accident” Is “Highly Likely” In South China Sea Things are escalating rapidly in the South China Sea where Beijing has figured out an innovative solution to the notion of “disputed waters.” As regular readers are by now acutely aware, China appears to have adopted the maritime boundary equivalent of the […]
10 Pictures That Show How America Is Becoming A Lot Like Nazi Germany
10 Pictures That Show How America Is Becoming A Lot Like Nazi Germany The history books tell us about how evil and wicked the Nazis were, so why aren’t we more alarmed that the United States is becoming more like Nazi Germany with each passing day? More than three years ago, I wrote an article […]
Canadians to Spy Agencies: Get a Warrant!
Canadians to Spy Agencies: Get a Warrant! Ranked first among privacy priorities, the people of Canada have spoken. Second in a series. Do our digital homes deserve the same right to privacy as our brick-and-mortar homes? This is one of the questions Canadians are asking after CBC News revealed that a government spy agency — the Communications […]
Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say
Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say Most Americans value privacy and oppose mass surveillance. The minority who don’t – and who think spying is okay because they have “nothing to […]
Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware
Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows Canada and its spying partners exploited weaknesses in one of the world’s most popular mobile browsers and planned to hack into smartphones via links to Google and Samsung app […]
NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones
NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones The National Security Agency and its closest allies planned to hijack data links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top-secret document reveals. The surveillance project was launched by a joint electronic eavesdropping unit called the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, […]
You May No Longer Think Wrong Thoughts, Citizen
You May No Longer Think Wrong Thoughts, Citizen Shortly after the election victory that probably surprised no-one more than himself, David Cameron launched into explaining to the hoi-polloi what further transmogrification of the State is in store now that he’s got a free hand. He inter alia elated the audience with the following zinger: “For […]
FBI Invokes National Security to Justify Surveillance of Tar Sands Protestors
FBI Invokes National Security to Justify Surveillance of Tar Sands Protestors The FBI has wide leeway to conduct surveillance on possible threats to “national security.” Where the rubber meets the road, of course, is who the Bureau decides constitutes such a threat. Both the president and the Pentagon have proclaimed that global warming is a threat to U.S. national security. But there’s no sign […]
