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The summer of surveillance
News summary for the period from July 12 to August 28, 2013 The revelations about the National Security Agency's global spying activities and what has come to be known as the Snowden Affair continued to dominate the international news  throughout the summer. More documents leaked by whistle blower Edward Snowden were published almost weekly by The Guardian, The Washington Post and the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, unravelling the apparently never ending reach, massive scale and questionable legality of the NSA's snooping operations. Read more |
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Opinion
Canadians need answers on domestic spying powers
This op-ed was written by Warren Allmand on behalf of ICLMG
The Toronto Star 04/09/2013 -
Canadians should heed the uproar in the United States, Europe and Latin America over the recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) is spying, without warrants, on e-mails, faxes and telephone calls going into and out of or simply transiting through the country. The fear is that data collection and data-mining systems  used by the NSA are not just monitoring suspected terrorists, but also filtering through the international, and possibly even domestic, communications of potentially all ordinary law-abiding citizens. What is even more startling is that Canadian security agencies have been authorized to do the same thing here, and may be using the same approach to conduct vast data-mining of our communications.
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Criminalization of dissent
Interview - From spying on "terrorists abroad" to suppressing domestic dissent: When we become the hunted
Truth Out 21/08/2013 - Heidi Boghosian's book 'Spying on Democracy' is the answer to the question, 'If you're not doing anything wrong, why should you care if someone's watching  you?' It's chock full of stories about how innocent people's lives were turned upside-down by public and private-sector surveillance programs. But more importantly, it shows how this unrestrained spying is inevitably used to suppress the most essential tools of democracy: the press, political activists, civil rights advocates and conscientious insiders who blow the whistle on corporate malfeasance and government abuse.
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Mass surveillance
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
The Guardian 05/09/2013 - US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents  revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden. Through covert partnerships with technology companies and internet service providers, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities - known as backdoors or trapdoors - into commercial encryption software. Security experts accused the agencies of attacking the internet itself and the privacy of all users. Read more
Common Dreams 02/09/2013 - In the latest reporting by journalist Glenn Greenwald on the U.S. National Security Agency's international surveillance programs, a news story on a Brazilian news show on Sunday night reported that the agency has used its powers to infiltrate  the communication systems of presidents in both Mexico and Brazil.Greenwald, listed as a co-contributor for the Journo O Globo's Sunday evening show Fantastico, said that documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the NSA accessed the email accounts and telephones of both President Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
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Anti-terror legislation
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Biometrics
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Data and surveillance
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Immigration and refugee rights
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Islamophobia
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No fly list
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Rendition to torture
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Rule of law
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State secrecy
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Terrorism
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War on terror
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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-eight Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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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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