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Canada's Conservatives Are Using Cyberbullying to Normalize Online Surveillance
A new law is being proposed that would supposedly crack down on "cyberbullies," but its language also targets terrorists and those who steal cable TV signals. This appears to be the latest trojan horse maneuver by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's...
Is CSEC, the Canadian Version of the NSA, Trustworthy?
With the whole world up in arms about the NSA's rampant surveillance of ordinary citizens, very little is known about CSEC, the Communications Security Establishment Canada, which has existed for 68 years, even though the government only acknowledged...
Before PRISM, There Was Underwater Cable Tapping
Government surveillance and the tapping of communication cables is not a new threat to public privacy. Edward Snowden may have brought to light some of the NSA’s more recent eavesdropping strategies, but citizen surveillance in America has a much older...
The Canadian Government Is Not Bothered by PRISM and the NSA
I expected Canada to be upset and disturbed by the revelations made by history’s most famous whistleblowing fugitive, Edward Snowden. And, of course, many Canadians are. However, when it comes to the conversation that’s being held on the world stage...
