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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." Read more - Lire plusCanadian Forces spent virtually all of 2013 watching Idle No More protestersNational 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." Read more - Lire plus |
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Surveillance des agences de sécurité
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."
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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 analysé par le New York Times dans un article paru le 1er juin, se concentrent sur un aspect précis de l'utilisation par les services secrets américains des données numériques disponibles en ligne : les photos publiées chaque  jour par les individus, ou échangées grâce aux outils de communication. Selon le New York Times, ces documents indiquent qu'en 2011, la NSA était capable d'intercepter en une journée « des millions d'images » dont environ « 55 000 dont la qualité suffit pour une reconnaissance faciale ». Ces images seraient récupérées dans les emails, courriels, textos, mais aussi sur les réseaux sociaux, grâce à des outils de vidéo-conférences, ou encore, dans les bases de données de photos utilisées par les administrations des pays étrangers. Lire plusNSA collecting millions of faces from web imagesTech titans tell Senate to go big on NSA overhaulLa loi qui réforme la NSA «pas du tout suffisante», selon GoogleTop NSA officials struggled over surge in Foia requests, emails revealAs Snowden leak anniversary approaches, intelligence community prepares to declare victoryNoam Chomsky: A surveillance state beyond imagination is being created in one of the world's freest countriesThe Last Commencement Address: The class of 2014 enters a shadowy world of corporate and state surveillanceAnother judge upholds NSA call trackingProsecutors launch probe into NSA tapping Merkel's mobileEdward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officialsIs Snowden obliged to accept punishment?Accueillir Snowden en France ? Les points-clés du débatSnowden demande l'asile au Brésil
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Access to information
Accès à l'information
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Afghanistan
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Anti-terror legislation
Législation antiterroriste
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Citizenship, immigration and refugee rights
Citoyenneté, immigration et droits des réfugié.es
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Criminalization of dissent
Criminalisation de la dissidence
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Liberté de la presse
Press freedom
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Primauté du droit
Rule of law
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State secrecy
Secret d'état
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Surveillance
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Technologie et vie privée
Technology and privacy
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Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
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Torture
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Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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Action
Tell Harper: Defend Online Privacy
OpenMedia.ca - Il vient d'être révélé que le gouvernement espionne l'information privée d'un Canadien à chaque 27 secondes. Ça veut dire que les informations sensibles de 1 Canadien sur 34 ont été épiées par le gouvernement. Il est  probable que vous, votre famille, ou vos voisins sont des victimes. Lorsque questionné au Parlement, le Premier ministre Harper a refusé d'agir pour défendre notre vie privée en ligne.4 SVP, dites à Harper de prendre la défense des Canadiens maintenant. |
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Évènement
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". |
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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. |
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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!
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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! |
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Action
Egypte - Arrêtez cette exécution de masse - Stop the mass execution
En Égypte, une parodie de justice vient de condamner à mort 528 personnes. C'est certainement la plus grande décision d'exécution de masse de notre siècle, et un seul homme peut arrêter ce massacre.
Sign and share the petition now!
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Évènement
Proud to protect refugees: Du 16 au 22 juin 2014 joignez-vous à la Marche!
Comment peut-on changer les regards posés sur les réfugiés et les autres personnes en quête de protection au Canada près de chez nous? Organisez une marche ou joignez-vous à une marche près de chez vous! |
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Action
Signez la déclaration Protéger notre vie privée maintenant
Le gouvernement est sur le point d'adopter le projet de loi C-13 qui assure une immunité aux entreprises de télécommunications lorsque celles-ci donnent nos informations privées aux autorités, même quand ces dernières n'ont pas de mandat.
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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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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.
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.
