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Revue de l'actualit� - News Digest
5 juin 2014 - June 5, 2014 
Surveillance de la dissidence
Surveillance of dissent 

Government orders federal departments to keep tabs on all demonstrations across country

Ottawa Citizen 04/06/2014 - The federal government is expanding its surveillance of public activities to include all known demonstrations across the country, a move that collects information even on the most mundane of protests by Canadians. The email requesting such information was sent out Tuesday by the Government Operations Centre in Ottawa to all federal departments. "The Government Operations Centre is seeking your assistance in compiling a comprehensive listing of  all known demonstrations which will occur either in your geographical area or that may touch on your mandate," noted the email, leaked to the Citizen. "We will compile this information and make this information available to our partners unless of course, this information is not to be shared and not available on open sources. In the case of the latter, this information will only be used by the GOC for our Situational Awareness." Wesley Wark, an intelligence specialist at the University of Ottawa, said such an order is illegal. "The very nature of the blanket request and its unlimited scope I think puts it way over the line in terms of lawful activity," said Wark. "I think it's a clear breach of our Charter rights."

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Canadian Forces spent virtually all of 2013 watching Idle No More protesters

National Post 01/06/2014 - As First Nations activists shut down roads and bridges in protest last year, the Counter-Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of National Defence was watching. Closely. All the while, behind the scenes, they were preparing to tell the media they were doing no such thing. The Canadian Forces spent virtually all of 2013 keeping eyes on the Aboriginal protesters, out of fear that they could pose a threat to military personnel or intercept weapons shipments, according to documents obtained under Access to Information laws. But there was a snag. As was pointed out in emails, there are only two bodies in the Canadian Forces that are "legally mandated to collect detailed intelligence on Canadian citizens within a domestic context" - and their unit wasn't one of them. The only way they could keep an eye on those protests would be "in support of force protection."

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Vie priv�e     
Privacy

10 reasons you should be creeped out by Stephen Harper's anti-privacy agenda

Press Progress 03/06/2014 - Canadians' privacy is in the spotlight after Stephen Harper's controversial pick to be the country's next privacy watchdog arrived on Parliament Hill on Tuesday amid a growing chorus of critics of the government's latest snooping bill, C-13. Here are 10 things you need to know about why alarm bells are going off: 1. C-13 opens the floodgates to telecom companies giving your private info to the government  - and you'll never even know it. 2. Bill uses cyberbullying as an excuse to access information on your phones and computers without a warrant. 3. Even Amanda Todd's mother thinks the bill goes beyond its stated goal of addressing cyberbullying. 4. Conservatives are actually trying to make a case for letting police go on "fishing expeditions" into our phones and computers just to make sure we're not up to anything that would make their "spidey sense" go off. 5. The new law is so flawed it would actually let Rob Ford see what you're up to on your phone or computer. And to answer your next question: yes, Seriously. 6. The last job of Harper's new pick for privacy watchdog was to do damage control over "intrusions into privacy on a grand scale". 7. The guy Harper picked as privacy watch dog actually used to give advice to Canada's spie. 8. The selection of the new privacy commissioner was surrounded by really, really dodgy circumstances. 9. Even former privacy watchdogs think this was a "bizarre" choice. 10. Canada's spy watchdog thinks you're stupid.

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A people's plea: Don't spy on us

This is testimony given to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on Bill C-13.

The Tyee 03/06/2014 - Thank you for this opportunity to speak before the committee regarding Bill C-13. I am Steve Anderson, the executive director of OpenMedia.ca. OpenMedia.ca is a community-based organization working to safeguard the open Internet. As it stands Canada has a privacy deficit, and I'm afraid Bill C-13 will only deepen that deficit. I believe that this privacy deficit is the result of a democratic deficit. If the government, including members of this committee, were listening to the concerns of Canadians, there's no way you would be paving the way for a range of authorities to have increased warrantless access to our sensitive private information. To help bring the concerns of Canadians to this committee, I've crowdsourced this presentation for you today. I asked Canadians online what they thought I should say today and I have done my best to incorporate their input into my presentation. I'll reference some of their input directly from time to time. I'll confine my presentation to the lawful access portion of the bill as that is where Canadians have expressed the most concern. The Canadians I heard from had three main concerns about Bill C-13: 1. Immunity for activities that victimize innocent Canadians. 2. Accountability and oversight. 3. Data security.

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Privacy community speaks out against government record of failure on privacy

Michael Geist: Why is the government giving up on protecting our privacy?

Globe and Mail editorial: Harper's new privacy watchdog's record leaves real apprehension of conflict of interest, bias

Privacy watchdog nominee balks at Bill C-13
Surveillance des agences de s�curit�
Oversight of security agencies 
 
The Globe and Mail 29/05/2014 - Federal intelligence officials are warning their watchdogs against talking too much to each other, even as spies themselves increasingly team up on top-secret surveillance. A 2013 letter obtained by The Globe under Access to Information laws reveals the frictions between Canada's spies and those who watch them. The correspondence shows how Canada's two spy-service watchdog agencies were last year exchanging letters about a technique used jointly by the spy agencies. Collaboration among intelligence agencies is "the direction everything is heading in. So it's the direction we also need to go," Lindsay Jackson, a researcher at the Security Intelligence Review Committee told The Globe in an interview. SIRC is the watchdog for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The problem, she said, is that "there are mechanisms for the intelligence agencies to share information," but "there are no mechanisms for the review bodies to share information."

Mass surveillance around the world     
Surveillance globale dans le monde  

La NSA aspire chaque jour des millions de photos de visages sur le web

Le Monde 31/05/2014 - De nouveaux documents de la NSA (National Security Agency), fournis par Snowden et analys� par le New York Times dans un article paru le 1er juin, se concentrent sur un aspect pr�cis de l'utilisation par les services secrets am�ricains des donn�es num�riques disponibles en ligne : les photos publi�es chaque jour par les individus, ou �chang�es gr�ce aux outils de communication. Selon le New York Times, ces documents indiquent qu'en 2011, la NSA �tait capable d'intercepter en une journ�e � des millions d'images � dont environ � 55 000 dont la qualit� suffit pour une reconnaissance faciale �. Ces images seraient r�cup�r�es dans les emails, courriels, textos, mais aussi sur les r�seaux sociaux, gr�ce � des outils de vid�o-conf�rences, ou encore, dans les bases de donn�es de photos utilis�es par les administrations des pays �trangers.

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NSA collecting millions of faces from web images

Tech titans tell Senate to go big on NSA overhaul

La loi qui r�forme la NSA �pas du tout suffisante�, selon Google

Top NSA officials struggled over surge in Foia requests, emails reveal

As Snowden leak anniversary approaches, intelligence community prepares to declare victory

Noam Chomsky: A surveillance state beyond imagination is being created in one of the world's freest countries

The Last Commencement Address: The class of 2014 enters a shadowy world of corporate and state surveillance

Another judge upholds NSA call tracking

Prosecutors launch probe into NSA tapping Merkel's mobile

Edward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officials

Is Snowden obliged to accept punishment?

Accueillir Snowden en France ? Les points-cl�s du d�bat

Snowden demande l'asile au Br�sil
 
Autres nouvelles - More news
Access to information
Acc�s � l'information 
Afghanistan
Anti-terror legislation
L�gislation antiterroriste 
Citizenship, immigration and refugee rights
Citoyennet�, immigration et droits des r�fugi�.es 
Criminalization of dissent
Criminalisation de la dissidence
Guantanamo 
Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror 
Libert� de la presse     
Press freedom 
Primaut� du droit
Rule of law 
State secrecy
Secret d'�tat 

Surveillance

Technologie et vie priv�e
Technology and privacy 
Terrorism cases
Proc�s pour terrorisme 
Terrorisme
Terrorism
Torture 
Miscellaneous
Divers  

 

 
CETTE SEMAINE / THIS WEEK
- Suppression of dissent: Government orders federal deparments to keep tabs on all demonstrations across country; Canadian Forces spent virtually all of 2013 watching Idle No More protesters
- Privacy: 10 reasons you should be creeped out by Stephen Harper's anti-privacy agenda; A people's plea: Don't spy on us
- Oversight of security agencies: Spy agencies try to curb watchdogs' ties to each other
- Surveillance globale dans le monde: La NSA aspire chaque jour des millions de photos de visages sur le web
- Autres nouvelles / More news
 

Les opinions exprim�es ne refl�tent pas n�cessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
Action  

Tell Harper: Defend Online Privacy

OpenMedia.ca - Il vient d'�tre r�v�l� que le gouvernement espionne l'information priv�e d'un Canadien � chaque 27 secondes. �a veut dire que les informations sensibles de 1 Canadien sur 34 ont �t� �pi�es par le gouvernement. Il est probable que vous, votre famille, ou vos voisins sont des victimes. Lorsque questionn� au Parlement, le Premier ministre Harper a refus� d'agir pour d�fendre notre vie priv�e en ligne.4 SVP, dites � Harper de prendre la d�fense des Canadiens maintenant.
 

�v�nement   

Espionage, the Individual & the UN: Human Rights vs National Security

June 5, 2014
7:00-9:00 p.m
Human Rights Research and Education Centre University of Ottawa,
Fauteux Hall, 57 Louis Pasteur, Room 550



A panel discussion with Marcel Jesensky on "Diplomatic Relations in the Digital Age", Shayna Gersher on "Regulating Spies in the Skies: Recommendations for Drone Rules in Canada", Wesley Wark on "Keepin Spies Accountable in Democracies", and Stan Carlson on "Intelligence for Peacekeeping and Human Rights".

Action  

Petition to the Canadian Government: Stop Bill C-24! Don't turn millions of us into second class citizens



Canada is all about diversity. Many Canadians were born in other countries or are citizens of other countries because of their family history - and all of us are 100% Canadian. But this new law - Bill C-24 - will shatter a core principle of Canadian citizenship - that all Canadians have equal rights. This new law will make a second-class citizen out of every Canadian who's born elsewhere or who is a dual citizen. 
 

Action  

Donate to the
We Are Jose campaign! 

Jose and Ivania Figueroa came to Canada as refugees from El Salvador in 1997, and have since raised a family here. Jose has had to fight an unjust deportation order for the past four years, and was forced to seek sanctuary in a local church so as not to be separated from his family. Let's raise enough money to cover their legal costs and give them hope that they will not be torn apart!




Action  

Egypt must release journalists and protect freedom of expression  

Send a message to Minister of Justice Nayer Abdel-Moneim Othman calling on the Egyptian authorities to release Mohamed Fahmy and his Al Jazeera colleagues immediately and unconditionally.

Sign and share the petition now!




Action  

Egypte - Arr�tez cette ex�cution de masse - Stop the mass execution 

En �gypte, une parodie de justice vient de condamner � mort 528 personnes. C'est certainement la plus grande d�cision d'ex�cution de masse de notre si�cle, et un seul homme peut arr�ter ce massacre.

Sign and share the petition now!




�v�nement 

Proud to protect refugees: Du 16 au 22 juin 2014 joignez-vous � la Marche!

Comment peut-on changer les regards pos�s sur les r�fugi�s et les autres personnes en qu�te de protection au Canada pr�s de chez nous? Organisez une marche ou joignez-vous � une marche pr�s de chez vous!



Action 

Signez la d�claration Prot�ger notre vie priv�e maintenant

Le gouvernement est sur le point d'adopter le projet de loi C-13 qui assure une immunit� aux entreprises de t�l�communications lorsque celles-ci donnent nos informations priv�es aux autorit�s, m�me quand ces derni�res n'ont pas de mandat.

Speak out against the government's online spying Bill C-13


What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualit�?

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.
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La revue de l'actualit� est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'�v�nements, d'appels � l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la s�curit� nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libert�s civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la soci�t� civile canadienne qui a �t� cr��e suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux �tats-Unis.