{"id":45267,"date":"2019-04-11T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45267"},"modified":"2019-04-11T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:41:59","slug":"five-reasons-to-care-about-rcmp-monitoring-your-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45267","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Five Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Surveillance is going ahead without oversight or accountability, for one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Governments have taken no effective steps to protect citizens from round-the-clock, random surveillance in the internet age. Photo: Shutterstock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You should care, even be scared, by The Tyee\u2019s reports on the RCMP\u2019s \u201cOperation Wide Awake,\u201d a secretive and unsupervised social media monitoring operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re already deep into a new era. Police \u2014 and businesses and other organizations \u2014 have the ability to track citizens in ways unimagined even a decade ago. Social media, the internet, cellphones, algorithms and analytics have given the state extraordinary power to monitor what you think and predict what you might think or do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And governments have taken no effective steps to protect citizens from round-the-clock, random surveillance in the internet age. They have quietly surrendered our rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tyee\u2019s Bryan Carney revealed<\/a> the RCMP\u2019s Operation Wide Awake, its expansion, and the lack of oversight<\/a> to protect Canadians\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RCMP, Carney reported, had launched a sweeping project to monitor Canadians\u2019 internet use, especially social media. At first, the goal was to help investigators solve crimes. Then the police decided to expand the monitoring to try and assess whether people might commit crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basic privacy considerations around the expanded program have not been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should that scare you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, this is a whole new kind of surveillance.<\/strong> Even a decade ago, police had few options for tracking citizens. They could intercept mail or tap a phone line, if the court approved a warrant. Officers could interview neighbours or infiltrate groups<\/a> they thought might be a threat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But between legal safeguards and the practical challenges, mass monitoring was impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation Wide Awake shows how much that has changed. The RCMP bought social media monitoring technology from Salesforce<\/a> via Carahsoft<\/a>, a big U.S. corporation supplying governments with technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\u2019s reports on the RCMP\u2019s \u201cOperation Wide Awake,\u201d a secretive and unsupervised social media monitoring operation. We\u2019re already deep into a new era. Police \u2014 and businesses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,5570,25602,25601,3542,23884],"class_list":["post-45267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-operation-wide-awake","tag-paul-willcocks","tag-rcmp","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45268,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45267\/revisions\/45268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}