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Harsh house arrest conditions lifted against alleged terrorist Mohamed Mahjoub
The Toronto Star 08/01/2013 - In a decision Monday, Justice Edmond Blanchard chided the federal government for failing to demonstrate the necessity of the conditions that essentially placed Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub under 24-hour surveillance. "The stringent terms and conditions currently in place are no longer necessary to neutralize the diminished threat posed by Mr. Mahjoub," Blanchard wrote in the ruling of the Egyptian man's detention review. Mahjoub was arrested in Toronto in 2000 on a national security certificate, which allows Ottawa to detain a non-citizen indefinitely without charge or trial pending deportation.
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Privacy
Canada's privacy watchdog offers alternative to Tories' Internet bill
The Canadian Press 08/01/2013 - A blueprint solicited by the privacy commissioner's office proposes new procedures to give police and spies key information about Internet users while retaining the principle of judicial oversight, a memo obtained under the Access to Information Act shows. The internal memo reveals assistant privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier asked Universit� de Montr�al law professor Karim Benyekhlef to come up with the proposal. Benyekhlef, a former federal prosecutor who is now director of the university's Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, concludes that the federal bill is inconsistent with the Charter of Rights because it allows warrantless access to subscriber information. He proposes a five-step process in which the authorities would first apply to a court for an order seeking subscriber data.
Read moreProtestors target West Van MP over Internet surveillance billUS warrantless wiretapping wins againACLU 02/01/2013 - It's official. The Senate voted 72-23 last week to extend the FISA Amendments Act another five years, which President Obama signed Sunday. Unfortunately, the public discussion of George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program may soon fade back into the shadows. The heartbreak of another Senate vote in favor of dragnet collection of Americans' communications, however, pales in comparison to the rejection of modest amendments in favor of more FISA transparency and accountability. These amendments would not have limited the government's spying program in any way; they would have only compelled the government to tell the public what the law says and whether it protects us from government prying. Simply put, if the public were to find out what the government is doing with our information, or how many of us are affected, the program would be "destroyed," according to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).Read moreDrones, phones and other 2012 privacy threats
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Omar Khadr
Column: Khadr transfer delays remain unexplicable
Ottawa Citizen 29/12/12 - On Oct. 23, 2010, Canada and the United States exchanged diplomatic notes agreeing in principle to the idea that Omar Khadr should be transferred to the Canadian correctional system after serving one more year in US custody (he'd served eight already). On Sept. 29, 2012, Omar Khadr came back to Canada. I find it difficult to believe that it could take two years to process paperwork about anything, never mind setting the already determined fate of a prisoner who was well known to both sides. But in fact, it seems that it didnt take two years to process the paperwork. We know that by October, 2011, when Khadr's year in US custody was up, the Correctional Service of Canada had assessed his request for a transfer and handed the file over to Vic Toews'public safety department. That's confirmed in a batch of heavily redacted documents I got in the mail this week, in response to an Access to Information request. I made the request back in April, after my questions to a spokesperson for the public safety department went unanswered.
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State secrets
Bradley Manning granted 112-day reduction in possible sentence
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Anti-terror laws
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Guantanamo
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National security
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No-Fly List
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Racism
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Rendition
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Repression of dissent
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Surveillance and technology
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Terrorism
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Torture
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War on terror
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Miscellaneous
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About us
The ICLMG is a national coalition of forty Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. You will find in this News Digest news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, civil liberties and other issues related to the mandate and concerns of ICLMG and its member organizations.
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Event
Carters: The Ottawa Region Charity & Not-for-Profit Law Seminar
Thursday February 7, 2013
8:30am-3:30pm
Travelodge Convention Centre, Ottawa West
The seminar is designed to assist charities and not-for-profit organizations in understanding developing trends in the law in order to reduce unnecessary exposure to legal liability.
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Book review
Against Security, by Harvey Molotch
Schneier on Security 14/12/2012 - Security is both a feeling and a reality, and the two are different things. People can feel secure when they're actually not, and they can be secure even when they believe otherwise. This discord explains much of what passes for our national discourse on security policy. Security measures often are nothing more than security theater, making people feel safer without actually increasing their protection.
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Take action
Tell you MP to stand against Bill C-30 and warrantless online spying
OpenMedia.ca - The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police called on the government to revive the invasive Online Spying Bill C-30 - legislation that would grant them warrantless access into the private lives of each and every one of us. Call on your MP to stand against invasive warrantless Online Spying.
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