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Omar Khadr case unfairly handled by officials, ombudsman complains
The Canadian Press 26/02/2014 - Canadian correctional authorities have unfairly classified former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr even though they lowered his risk rating from maximum to medium security, the federal prisons ombudsman complains. In a letter obtained by  The Canadian Press, the Office of the Correctional Investigator urges prison authorities to take into account evidence that Khadr poses minimal threat and should be classified as such. "(Correctional Service of Canada) officials also note that there is no evidence Mr. Khadr has maintained an association with any terrorist organization," the letter to CSC's senior deputy commissioner states. Read more - Lire plusWhy is Omar Khadr still in jail? |
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Liberté de la presse
Press freedom
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CSIS, CSEC and mass surveillance
SCRS, CSTC et surveillance globale
Privacy or national security: Have spy agencies gone too far?
The Globe and Mail 27/02/2014 - This is part of Life After Privacy, a four-part series on the risks, challenges and opportunities for citizens and consumers posed by a world where your private information is widely available to governments and corporations. The Debate: Is your government gathering masses of cellphone information to protect you, or to invade your privacy? Spy agencies in Canada, the United States and elsewhere have been caught  harvesting huge amounts of potentially private data from laptops, tablets and cellphones of millions of people, including their citizens. They say this is necessary because of the changed world of security threats, such as terrorism. The extent of this spying has become clearer thanks to recent leaks and disclosures. Now the taxpayers who fund these surveillance agencies are left to wonder how much their own communications are at risk of being intercepted - and whether what's going on is, in fact, legal. With Colin Freeze, Globe journalist, Cally DiPuma, lawyer suing CSEC on behalf of BCCLA, Craig Forcese, law professor, and J. William Galbraith, Executive director, Office of Canadian Security Establishment Commissioner.
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GCHQ, NSA and mass surveillance
GCHQ, NSA et surveillance globale
The Guardian 27/02/2014 - Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of  Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery - including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications - from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally. Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian. The company denied any prior knowledge of the program, accusing the agencies of "a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy". Read more - Lire plusHow covert agents infiltrate the Internet to manipulate, deceive, and destroy reputations
The Intercept 24/02/2014 - One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It's time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled "The Art of Deception: Training for Online  Covert Operations." By publishing these stories one by one, our NBC reporting highlighted some of the key, discrete revelations: the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very same DDoS attacks they accuse "hacktivists" of using, the use of "honey traps" (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses. But, here, I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself. Read more - Lire plus4 Darknesses: Internet being manipulated, deceived by Western intel trollsU.S. now bugging German ministers in place of MerkelThe NSA's culture of "legal compliance" still breaks the lawDOJ still ducking scrutiny after misleading Supreme Court on surveillanceNSA wants to keep phone records longerNSA watchdog: Snowden should have come to meSpy Chief James Clapper: We can't stop another SnowdenInside the mind of James ClapperRand Paul: The NSA is still violating our rights, despite what James Clapper saysSnowden 2.0: Is there a new active duty NSA whistleblower?Writing the Snowden Files: 'The paragraph began to self-delete' |
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Afghanistan
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Anti-terror legislation
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Pakistan
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Primauté du droit
Rule of law
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Rendition to torture
Renvoi vers la torture
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Surveillance
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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
Canadian campaign against mass surveillance: Call on your MP to stand against costly online spying
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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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action with protests taking place in more than 25 cities. Here in Canada, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and Al Jazeera's English staff are holding a demonstration in Toronto at Nathan Phillips Square at noon ET. In Montreal, a similar event has been arranged by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) outside of the Egyptian consulate. 
