{"id":8367,"date":"2015-05-22T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8367"},"modified":"2015-05-22T06:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:03:02","slug":"canadians-to-spy-agencies-get-a-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8367","title":{"rendered":"Canadians to Spy Agencies: Get a Warrant!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadians to Spy Agencies: Get a Warrant!<\/a><\/h2>\n

Ranked first among privacy priorities, the people of Canada have spoken. Second in a series.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do our digital homes deserve the same right to privacy as our brick-and-mortar homes?<\/p>\n

This is one of the questions Canadians are asking after CBC News\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that a government spy agency — the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) — targeted popular mobile browsers and apps, leaving millions at risk of having their private data hacked.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in a long series of revelations about how the government has been spying on our private online activities on a massive scale — without ever going to a judge to ask for a warrant.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, we\u00a0launched<\/a>\u00a0a crowdsourced pro-privacy action plan, to tackle these and other concerns. The early reception has been positive, with the federal privacy commissioner\u00a0stating<\/a>\u00a0that he “shared many of the views expressed by participants in this project.”<\/p>\n

As part of our crowdsourcing process, we presented participants with a range of privacy priorities, which we asked them to rank in order of preference. Top of Canadians’ list was “require a warrant for government to spy on personal information,” which barely edged out “end blanket surveillance” for the number one spot.<\/p>\n

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Tackling Canada’s privacy deficit starts with getting a warrant, finds new OpenMedia report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We drilled down further by asking in what circumstances should the government be allowed to access Canadians’ personal information. Again we presented a range of options, and this time the result was overwhelming:<\/p>\n

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Over 93 per cent of participants said a warrant granted by a judge is a must when it comes to accessing your personal information. Independent studies, such as\u00a0this one<\/a>\u00a0by the privacy commissioner and\u00a0this one<\/a>\u00a0by Forum Research, reinforce these findings.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0revealed\u00a0that a government spy agency — the Communications […]<\/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":[103,1543,338,652,5580,765,5581],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-freedom","tag-privacy","tag-spy-agencies","tag-surveillance","tag-warrantless-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","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=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8368,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}