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Lawful access
Accès licite
Does Canada's Bill C-13 really tackle cyber-bullying?
Calgary Herald 14/01/2014 -Introduced by Justice Minister Peter Mackay late last year, Bill C-13 has since been met with criticism, suspicion and resistance. Interestingly, in a statement about the new Bill, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, who has long promoted cyber bullying awareness and prevention measures, noted that her office was not consulted on the legislation. Once she saw the Bill, however, Jennifer Stoddart noted  several concerns about it, including the large number of so called 'public officers' who would have significant new investigative powers, and an overall lack of accountability on the use of those powers. Many of those speaking out against the Bill note that it seems to have been taken straight from the pages of the government's previous online spying (aka Lawful Access ) legislation. It seems the new Bill, some 70 odd pages long, has but two or three pages of cyber bullying- related content, but more than 60 pages from the failed C-30.
Read more - Lire plus Bullying 2.0: Omnibus Bill C-13 tackles cyberbullying by eroding digital privacy
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Oversight of intelligence agencies
Surveillance des agences de renseignement
CBC News 10/01/2014 - While the head of the watchdog committee overseeing Canada's intelligence agency is under attack for also being a lobbyist for the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, it turns out that half of the other Harper government appointees keeping an eye on the spies also have ties to the oil business. For example, Denis Losier is an accomplished former New Brunswick politician, bureaucrat and insurance company top executive. But he is also  on the board of directors of Enbridge N.B., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the pipeline and gas company of the same name, Strahl's client. Yves Fortier is one of Canada's most pre-eminent and highly respected lawyers. He was previously a member of the board of TransCanada Pipelines, the company now behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Texas. Former Reform MP Deborah Grey is one member of the spy service oversight committee with no apparent connections to the oil industry. But she does have long ties to Stephen Harper (he used to work in her MP's office) and friendly connections in a government that has branded pipeline opponents "radicals." Read more - Lire plus 'I'm no Arthur Porter': The four defences of Chuck Strahl
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Sécurité nationale
National security
Hugh Segal: Canada, it's time to talk about national security
The Globe and Mail 13/01/2014 - The increase in intrusive and digital technologies, use of digitally controlled long-range drones for surveillance, targeting and combat also cry out for inclusion in any normative rethink of laws and practices. The United States and Britain have begun this process, but the silence from Canada's federal ministers, bureaucrats and agency heads is deafening. There is no Senate or Commons  committee in Canada with the authority or security clearance necessary to conduct such a review, which again separates us from the United States and Britain. Nor is there any likely prospect of Parliament having a thoughtful debate about the future of national security, its purposes, dimensions and frameworks without folks on all sides pointing to excesses of the past under various governments - the ultimate "gotcha" dialectic no working journalist could resist. A royal commission that laid out the issues and challenges, held open and in camera hearings, and wrung out any and all partisanship from the process would serve our country and this government well. It is high time. Read more - Lire plus
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Liste d'interdiction de vol
No fly list
US judge rules against government in no-fly list challenge
RTE News 14/01/2014 -US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on a lawsuit brought by Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian citizen. The US no-fly policy excludes individuals from commercial air travel if they are suspected of having ties to terrorism, but critics say it is practically impossible to be removed from the list once on it. US Department of Justice spokesman Wyn  Hornbuckle said the government is reviewing the ruling and declined to comment further. An attorney for Ms Ibrahim, Elizabeth Pipkin, said: "Justice has finally been done for our client, an innocent woman who was ensnared in the government's flawed watch listing system." The no-fly list is the subject of multiple legal challenges. Ms Ibrahim's case is believed to have been the first to go to trial. The trial took place last month. Read more - Lire plus
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US, NSA and mass surveillance
États-Unis, NSA et surveillance globale
La NSA récupère près de 200 millions de textos par jour
Agence France-Presse 16/01/2014 - L'Agence de sécurité nationale américaine, la NSA, a récupéré près de 200 millions de textos par jour dans le monde, de façon non ciblée, pour en extraire des renseignements, rapporte jeudi le quotidien britannique The Guardian. Ces informations, révélées dans le cadre d'une enquête menée conjointement par le journal et la chaîne Channel 4 News, se basent sur des documents transmis par l'ancien consultant informatique Edward  Snowden, réfugié en Russie. Elles sont publiées à la veille d'un discours du président américain Barack Obama qui doit annoncer vendredi une série de réformes des méthodes de surveillance, en réponse à la controverse sur les programmes américains d'espionnage déclenchée par Snowden. Le programme de la NSA sur les textos, qui a pour nom de code «Dishfire», récupère «à peu près tout ce qu'il peut», selon des documents du GCHQ, le pendant britannique de la NSA, cités par le Guardian, plutôt que de se cantonner aux communications de personnes faisant l'objet d'une surveillance.
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NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
La NSA peut accéder à des ordinateurs non connectés au Net
Libération 15/01/2014 - La NSA peut pénétrer des ordinateurs qui ne sont pas connectés à internet grâce à un système d'ondes radio, assure le New York Times mercredi, à deux jours du discours de Barack Obama sur la réforme des programmes de surveillance. Selon le quotidien, l'Agence de sécurité nationale américaine a implanté dans  près de 100 000 ordinateurs dans le monde un logiciel qui lui permet de surveiller ces machines, mais aussi de «créer des autoroutes numériques pour le lancement de cyberattaques». Dans la plupart des cas, ce logiciel est implanté en accédant aux réseaux informatiques, poursuit le Times sur la base de documents de la NSA notamment. Mais «la NSA a de plus en plus souvent recours à une technologie secrète qui lui permet d'entrer dans des ordinateurs et d'y endommager des données même s'ils ne sont pas connectés à Internet», assure le journal. |
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Anti-terror legislation
Législation anti-terroriste
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Border security
Sécurité à la frontière
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Citizenship, immigration & refugee rights
Citoyenneté, immigration & droits des réfugié.es
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
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Drones
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Guantanamo
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Islamophobie & racisme
Islamophobia & racism
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Liberté de la presse
Freedom of the press
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National Security
Sécurité nationale
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War on terror
Guerre contre le terrorisme
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The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG - Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC
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Action
Tell Harper: No Secret Spying! - Dites à Harper: Non à l'espionnage secret!
Openmedia.ca - Nous devons profiter de ce moment - alors que les questions de vie privée sont à l'avant-plan - pour obtenir des réponses. Exigez du gouvernement qu'il arrête ce programme d'espionnage secret, et qu'il dise aux Canadiens exactement ce qui se passe. Nous méritons de le savoir.  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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What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualité?
The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. 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. +++
La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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O'Connor's list of recommendations after the Arar inquiry in 2006, there was one recommendation that advised the government to create oversight bodies for the RCMP, CSIS and five other agencies involved with national security, including the CSE. As far as I know, this particular recommendation was never followed. So we end up with no independent monitoring agency for the RCMP or for the CSE.
