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Canadians Are F**ked: Secret RCMP Report
Canadians Are F**ked: Secret RCMP Report A previously secret (and still heavily redacted) RCMP report warns the Canadian government to expect civil unrest once citizens realize how totally screwed the economic situation is, the National Post reports. “The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier […]
Five Arrested at Fairy Creek Old Growth Blockade
Five Arrested at Fairy Creek Old Growth Blockade ‘Protracted stand-off’ predicted. Barred journalists ask court to rule RCMP ‘exclusionary zone’ illegal. Members of the Fairy Creek Blockade earlier this spring, when an in-depth Tyee article reported why they risked arrest to oppose Teal-Jones timber company logging on one of Vancouver Island’s last old-growth watersheds. Photo by Ken Dawson. […]
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 […]
RCMP Accused of Creating ‘Crisis of Press Freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en Raids
RCMP Accused of Creating ‘Crisis of Press Freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en Raids Limits on reporters’ access, threats of arrest bring criticism from media, journalism groups. The RCMP’s handling of the enforcement of an injunction in Wet’suwet’en territory has generated accusations that police unnecessarily interfered with reporters doing their jobs. “This is them trying to control the […]
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down RCMP ‘exclusion zone’ isn’t deterring anti-pipeline activists, land defenders. A report from the scene. Thirty-nine kilometres down the Morice Forest Service Road in northern British Columbia, people huddle around a fire, close enough to feel some heat but not enough to melt their boots. […]
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports Newspaper cites planning documents that called for ‘lethal overwatch’ to ensure pipeline built. The RCMP were prepared to use snipers with shoot-to-kill orders when they launched a raid to remove Indigenous protesters slowing pipeline construction in Wet’suwet’en territory, the Guardian reported today. The exclusive […]
Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media
Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media Surveillance is going ahead without oversight or accountability, for one. You should care, even be scared, by The Tyee’s reports on the RCMP’s “Operation Wide Awake,” a secretive and unsupervised social media monitoring operation. We’re already deep into a new era. Police — and businesses […]
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 […]
