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RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 ‘Terrorists’
RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 ‘Terrorists’ Emails expose the BC force’s previously unknown purchase, which broke rules. Critics worry about privacy, racial profiling and false positives. Documents obtained by The Tyee identify the BC RCMP as IntelCenter’s first publicly revealed facial recognition service client. The firm’s military, intelligence and law […]
Privacy Commissioner Launches Investigation of RCMP Internet Unit
Privacy Commissioner Launches Investigation of RCMP Internet Unit The probe comes after Tyee reports on Project Wide Awake and web spying. Here are some questions to pose to the force. A series of Tyee reports unmasking social media spying efforts by the RCMP spurred NDP MP Charlie Angus to call for a federal investigation. Illustration by […]
Keying off Tyee RCMP Revelations, MP Angus Wants an Investigation
Keying off Tyee RCMP Revelations, MP Angus Wants an Investigation Exposé on Project Wide Awake web spying adds reasons to consider changing privacy law, Angus says. NDP MP Charlie Angus says Monday’s Tyee report showed an RCMP ‘fast and loose with basic principles of jurisprudence and justice.’ Photo via Shutterstock. Revelations in The Tyee’s recent report on […]
‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program
‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program ‘Project Wide Awake’ files obtained by The Tyee show efforts to secretly buy and use powerful surveillance tools while downplaying capabilities. The Tyee cracks open 3,000 pages of RCMP documents released via a freedom of information request. Illustration by Christopher Cheung. […]
FOI Documents Confirm RCMP Falsely Denied Using Facial Recognition Software
FOI Documents Confirm RCMP Falsely Denied Using Facial Recognition Software Its contract with Clearview AI started in October, but the force was still denying using the controversial technology three months later. The RCMP denied using facial recognition software on Canadians three months after it had entered into a contract with controversial U.S. company Clearview AI, […]
Despite Denials, RCMP Used Facial Recognition Program for 18 Years
Despite Denials, RCMP Used Facial Recognition Program for 18 Years NDP critic calls on government to explain why RCMP falsely denied using Clearview AI technology. Despite denials, the RCMP has been routinely using facial recognition technology since 2002, The Tyee has learned. And the software continues to be used in British Columbia, the RCMP confirmed […]
Federal Privacy Office Acted Like RBC’s PR Arm, Says Integrity Advocate
Federal Privacy Office Acted Like RBC’s PR Arm, Says Integrity Advocate FOI reveals watchdog pushed media to change headline on story about investigation into bank. Canada’s privacy watchdog moved to have news reports about its investigation of RBC and Facebook changed after the bank complained they were “problematic,” documents released under freedom of information legislation […]
Tech Giants Rely on Big Lies — and We Fall for Them
Tech Giants Rely on Big Lies — and We Fall for Them From ‘the cloud’ to ‘free’ services, we’ve been conned by tech babble. Remember when we spent our days “surfing” the “information superhighway?” The 1990s dotcom bubble, when some tech companies spent as much as 90 per cent of their budgets on advertising, brought a flood […]
Postmedia, Torstar Take Taxpayer Cash, Fight to Keep Public in Dark about Cuts
Postmedia, Torstar Take Taxpayer Cash, Fight to Keep Public in Dark about Cuts Media giants continue to fight disclosure of evidence about 2017 deal that shuttered 36 newspapers. Newspaper giants Torstar and Postmedia have both just claimed millions in taxpayer subsidies from the federal government’s controversial news media fund. But at the same time they’re counting […]
Police Still Secretly Tracking TransLink Riders? Yes, Even More
Police Still Secretly Tracking TransLink Riders? Yes, Even More Two years after sparking a provincial probe, Tyee finds practice has grown. What happened after The Tyee exposed that TransLink increasingly was handing over data about its riders to police without informing customers or requiring any warrants? That was in August 2017. A follow-up Tyee investigation […]
RCMP Has Yet to Complete Privacy Assessment on Social Media Surveillance Tech
RCMP Has Yet to Complete Privacy Assessment on Social Media Surveillance Tech Calling ‘Project Wide Awake’ a test lets police dodge assessments, says BCCLA. An RCMP spokesperson said the “Project Wide Awake” program is still in the design stage — which is short of “official” implementation that requires a report on effects to personal privacy. Micheal […]
RCMP’s Social Media Surveillance Symptom of Broad Threat to Privacy, Says BCCLA
RCMP’s Social Media Surveillance Symptom of Broad Threat to Privacy, Says BCCLA Micheal Vonn isn’t surprised by RCMP’s ‘Project Wide Awake’ — but she’s worried. It’s not surprising the RCMP is using sophisticated software to monitor the social media activities of Canadians, said Micheal Vonn, policy director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. But it […]
Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada
Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada Tyee FOI reveals pro-pipeline PR strategy, spiraling costs. Billboard on a Kelowna roadway, paid for by Albertans as part of a national campaign with the underlying theme: ‘This is not B.C. vs. Alberta, this is B.C. vs. Canada.’ Source: KeepCanadaWorking website. The Alberta government […]
