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Re: Lawful Access articles - collection Canadians Not Doing Enough To Protect Privacy On Phones, Devices: Report
»www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/25···339.html
Canada's privacy commissioner says Canadians aren't doing enough to protect their mobile communication devices, such as cellphones and tablet computers.
"We encourage people to use passwords, encryption, privacy settings and every other available measure to safeguard their personal information, because the meaningful protection of privacy has to start with the individual," Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said. |
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jfmezeiPremium
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kudos:22 | reply to MaynardKrebs
Does anyone know when Parliament reconvenes ? When will Haroper present that omnibus bill ? Will it go to committee for hearings ? |
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People should start suing the Harper Conservative party for bringing such retarded laws with lawsuits , they are the cause of it all, maybe 10000 , 25000 dollar small claims actions might be a good start. |
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said by jfmezei:Does anyone know when Parliament reconvenes ? When will Haroper present that omnibus bill ? Will it go to committee for hearings ?
With the committees now stacked with Cons, any hearings there will be a matter of hauling out the rubber stamp. The hearings will be over before lunch. |
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jfmezeiPremium
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kudos:22 | There has to be large amount of publish backlash and then the hearings will be more "open". |
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Odd that no one was barking about suits when the liberals introduced the same bills on three different occasions! |
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Collectively we are are wiser and more vocal now.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. YMMV
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Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL
»www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/0···rensics/
The company in question is known as Packet Forensics, which advertised its new man-in-the-middle capabilities in a brochure handed out at the Intelligent Support Systems (ISS) conference, a Washington, D.C., wiretapping convention that typically bans the press. |
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Certied Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL
»files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf
This paper introduces the compelled certicate creation attack, in which government agencies may compel a certicate authority to
issue false SSL certicates that can be used by intelligence agencies to covertly intercept and hijack individuals' secure Web-based communications. Although we do not have direct evidence that this form of active surveillance is taking place in the wild, we show how products already on the market are geared and marketed towards this kind of use|suggesting such attacks may occur in the future, if they are not already occurring. Finally, we introduce a lightweight browser add-on that detects and thwarts such attacks. |
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Too Much Power
»www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/20···orcement
Though the article is in reference the the US Patriot Act, the author raises interesting points for us to ponder as we approach similar crossroads.
For the past 10 years, the Patriot Act’s critics have also made clear that their objections could be cured by amendments that limited its extraordinary surveillance powers to terrorism rather than ordinary criminal investigations. For example, when the act came up for re-authorization this year, Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, introduced a bill that would narrow the most controversial provision of the act, Section 215, which allows the government to seize “any tangible thing” without a warrant, from e-mails to browsing histories to library records. Wyden’s amendment would have required law enforcement officials to demonstrate that the records were connected to terrorism before seizing them.
....Of course, we can’t know precisely how the Patriot Act is being used and misused: Senator Wyden has warned that a secret law allowing the White House to keep its internal interpretations of the act classified means that it is now being used to justify surveillance that goes beyond what the public believes the law allows. But as long as the Patriot Act remains focused on ordinary Americans rather than suspected terrorists, the terrorists -- if you’ll forgive the truism -- have indeed have won.
Too Many Needless Provisions
»www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/20···riot-act
Be wary of 'scope creep'.
Less freedom doesn’t mean more safety. |
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 GNca GeorgeGorillaNET Wireless BroadbandPremium,VIP
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Minden, ON | Freedom is not free, free men are not equal, and equal men are not free.
The government is not very interested in your freedom, they are quite satisfied with your obedience. And we are on our way to lots more of that relating to copyrights and the Internet in the omnibus crime bill coming to a parliament near you this fall...
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GorillaNET.ca - »gorillanet.ca/
For the serious Internet user.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. |
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Another thoughtful piece by Canada's Privacy Commissioner
Respecting Canadians' Privacy in the Decade After 9/11
»www.huffingtonpost.ca/jennifer-s···780.html
Too bad it'll fall on deaf ears in Ottawa. |
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| It's a US article but has implications here too on cell phone tracking.
»online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142···574.html
Check the article out now before it disappears behind the WSJ paywall. |
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said by elwoodblues:The problem is the core constituency runs around saying if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
The Goverment will ignore all this trust me, and it won't resonate with the majority of the public (who have the same mentality as above), not realizing their rights are being unsurped.
If this goes through it will make it's way to the SCC, but by then Harper may have appointed more "like minded" Justices.
Think of the children, those unscrupulous pedophiles leering at naked little children don't you want them and the websites off the net? (I do,but I'm sure they have less the "public" methods of obtaining their materials).
Or even terrorists, we to know when someone is looking a bomb making sites.
The spin machine with unlimited dollars (your tax dollars at work) will be bigger, bolder and more widespread then a few Youtube videos(sorry Milnoc) made for Openmedia.
Just this week alone, the opposition, in light of the problems in Europe wanted a economic update, and the government having the majority , shut down any independent depositions.
so lets put cameras in your bedroom, bathroom and your house and hey lets put devices in you to make sure you do as we say not as we do.
FACT is EVERYONE gets CREEPED OUT when they are overly watched. THIS is what a warrant is supposed to be about , are you acting suspiciously NO..move along.
FACT is if harper dont scrap the prison crap and the jets were on a course like italy and greece. NUFF said.
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CBC also reported yesterday that the omnibus bill does not contain the lawful access legislation .... |
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Etobicoke, ON
kudos:2 | reply to MaynardKrebs
Some clarification on Lawful Access should arguing points be required:
»www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6020/125/ |
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Just hire employees who can't pass an RCMP background check, then no assistance can be given.  |
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Portage La Prairie, MB | reply to MaynardKrebs
Here comes the bill (man this government is on fire...).
»www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications···&File=12
Bet on the quality of the debate? |
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| September 27, 2011 — The Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture) — Bill entitled “An Act to amend the Copyright Act”. 27 septembre 2011 — Le ministre de l'Industrie et ministre d'État (Agriculture) — Projet de loi intitulé « Loi modifiant la Loi sur le droit d'auteur ».
September 27, 2011 — The Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture) — Bill entitled “An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act”.
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Wonder what this one is all about...could it be about anonymous internet posting, or simply not giving your correct name when questioned by police??
September 27, 2011 — Mr. Richards (Wild Rose) — Bill entitled “An Act to amend the Criminal code (concealment of identity)”.
27 septembre 2011 — M. Richards (Wild Rose) — Projet de loi intitulé « Loi modifiant le Code criminel (dissimulation d’identité) ». |
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Here's another little beauty about changes to PIPEDA » www.parl.gc.ca/LegisInfo/BillDet···5&Mode=1(12) Section 7 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3): Lawful authority (3.1) For greater certainty, for the purpose of paragraph (3)(c.1) (a) lawful authority refers to lawful authority other than
-- (i) a subpoena or warrant issued, or an order made, by a court, person or body with jurisdiction to compel the production of information, or
-- (ii) rules of court relating to the production of records; and
(b) the organization that discloses the personal information is not required to verify the validity of the lawful authority identified by the government institution or the part of a government institution. Paragraph 7(3)(c.1) of the Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of subparagraph (ii) and by adding the following after subparagraph (iii): ......., or (v) the disclosure is requested for the purpose of performing policing services that are not referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iv); ----------------------- 7(3)(c.1)(v) is a loophole big enough to drive a Challenger jet with Peter MacKay on-board through -- if it were me being asked to produce anything, I'd be demanding written verification, otherwise it might just be a cop in the service of a political party or a fed with a grudge against somebody .----------------------- » www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/30···027.htmlBut what has privacy experts worried is a new provision that allows organizations to hand over personal information about individuals to law enforcement and private investigators without a warrant. And, when the law enforcement agency requests it, the organization can be forbidden from notifying the individual in question that their information has been passed on. It’s that secrecy clause that has some privacy experts comparing the PIPEDA amendment to the USA Patriot Act, a massive law passed with little debate in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that civil liberties advocates have criticized as being a major expansion of the U.S. government’s ability to spy on private citizens. "This particular amendment appears to create a provision similar to those in the USA Patriot Act," Vincent Gogolek, executive director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, told CBC. He described the bill as containing “some real dangers.” --------------------- » www.marketwatch.com/story/govern···11-09-29Proposed amendments would make it clear that organizations may collaborate with government institutions, such as law enforcement and security agencies that have requested personal information, in the absence of a warrant, subpoena, or order. |
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