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CSE and mass surveillance in Canada
Canada has tracked phone and Internet data for years
The Toronto Star 12/06/2012 - Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency has tracked Internet and phone data to search for leads in terrorism cases for years, intelligence experts and insiders say. That shouldn't come as a surprise to Canadians. In 2005, the newly  appointed head of the Communications Security Establishment Canada said his agency must learn to "own the Internet" to combat terrorism. In 2006, the federal watchdog agency responsible for the CSEC said a review of the "use of metadata" was underway - although the findings of such a review have never been made public. And despite a report to the contrary that has fuelled parliamentary debate, the collection of this metadata by the CSEC has continued uninterrupted since the program was first authorized in 2005, a high-ranking government source said.
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NSA and mass surveillance in the US
US, Canadian online surveillance programs spark privacy concerns
Embassy 12/06/2013 - A Canadian spy agency and the Harper government are denying that Canadian email and phone logs, and other communications activity, are being secretly targeted by classified eavesdropping programs. But security analysts and civil liberties advocates say the revelations raise serious concerns about how the privacy of Canadians is being protected when such programs are in use. Last week, the  Guardian and Washington Post newspapers began a series of reports indicating that the United States National Security Agency was operating a dragnet of phone records from major American telecom firms like Verizon, and had the ability to clandestinely vacuum up Internet traffic from around the world as it flowed through US internet exchange points. The stated purpose was anti-terrorism. Slides from a leaked document indicated the NSA had the help of major service providers like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft-extensively used by Canadians-to directly access content like search history, emails, file transfers, or chat logs, in a program called PRISM. Several companies denied involvement. The news led to the revelation that the NSA's analogous agency north of the border, Communications Security Establishment Canada, was also operating an electronic eavesdropping program of its own, collecting locations and address of messages and phone calls, aimed at foreign communication.
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Access to information
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Anti-terror legislation
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Border control
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Criminalization of dissent
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Freedom of expression
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Guantanamo
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Islamophobia
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Military commissions
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National security
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Rule of law
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Security certificates
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State secrecy
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Torture
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War on terror
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Miscellenaous
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The views expressed in this News Digest do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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What is the News Digest?
The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of 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. The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-nine Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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Special event: Screening of
"ISN 310: Djamel Ameziane's Decade in Guantánamo" When: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 7-9pm Where: Octopus Books, 251 Bank Street,Ottawa, Ontario What: The screening of the documentary followed by a discussion with J. Wells Dixon (CCR attorney representing men at Guantánamo) and moderated by Hilary Homes (Amnesty International Canada). Additional panelists TBD. 
Join the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, Amnesty International Canada, and the Center for Constitutional Rights for this timely event, as the majority of the men at Guantánamo are on their fourth month of hunger strike in protest of more than 11 years of indefinite detention without charge or trial. *This event is free and open to the public*
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Take action
Tell Harper: No Secret Spying!
Openmedia.ca - According to online surveillance expert Ron Deibert, a secretive Canadian government agency is collecting our sensitive private information, giving them  the power to "pinpoint not only who you are, but with whom you meet, with what frequency and duration, and at which locations." We need to use this moment-when privacy issues are in the spotlight-to get answers. Call on the government to stop this secretive spying scheme, and to tell Canadians exactly what's going on. We deserve to know
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Books
The Terror Factory:
Inside the FBI's manufactured war on terrorism
According to government and federal court records, the Justice Department has prosecuted more than 500 terrorism defendants since 9/11. Of these cases, only a few posed actual threats to people or property... [M]ore than 150 were caught conspiring not with  terrorists but with FBI informants in sting operations. The remainder of the Justice Department's post-9/11 terrorism prosecutions involved crimes such as money laundering or immigration violations in which the link to terrorism was tangential or on another continent, and no evidence in these cases suggested credible safety threats to the United States. By outlining a few cases, and providing case studies of the careers of some of the FBI's most prolific informants, Trevor Aaronson's book demonstrates how that happens, and some of why.
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Take action
Campaign to stop the deportation of
Jose Figueroa intensifies
Supporters of Jose Figueroa are calling on Jason Kenney, the Minister of Immigration, to intervene and stop his deportation to El Salvador, and for Vic Toews, the Minister of Public Safety to make clear his position on the matter. More than a thousand signatures  were on a petition delivered to Parliament Friday. The campaign to keep the Figueroa family united has intensified since a recent Immigration decision accepted his wife's application to stay in Canada, but denied Mr. Figueroa based on Section 34(1) of the Act: "membership in an organization that engages in terrorism." People from the WE ARE JOSE campaign believe this to be an error and ask you to act to keep Figueroa family together in Langley, BC.
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Take action
Why are you proud to protect refugees?
Following recent changes to Canada's refugee determination system, it may be tougher to protect refugees in Canada.  Join the Canadian Council for Refugees in showing Canadians and the world why we are still proud to protect refugees and refugee rights.
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Take action
Deportation is not entertainment! Cancel the reality show Border Security
Dozens of people were interrogated, arrested, and detained by the Canadian Border Services Agency.  Shockingly, some of these traumatic experiences were filmed for a reality TV show "Border Security" which airs on National Geographic Channel. Sign the petition to urge National Geographic Channel and Force Four Entertainment, to cancel the show "Border Security" immediately.
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