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Democratic participation
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Législation anti-terrorisme
Anti-terrorism legislation
Anti-terror bill C-44: Pushing the limits of Canadian rights
rabble.ca 27/11/2014 - On October 29, 2014 the government introduced Bill C-44, an Act to amend the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and other (related) Acts, cited in short form as the Protection of Canada from Terrorists Act. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney stated that the amendments put forward under Bill C-44 are required to keep Canadians safe from terrorism and to protect and uphold the privacy of confidential informants. However, in achieving the government's stated goals, Bill C-44 deliberately pushes the limits of Canadians' right to privacy, protection from unreasonable search and seizure, and the right to life, liberty and security of the person. [...] Bill C-44 is a systematic attempt by the government to circumvent the limits Canadian courts have placed on its investigative and  surveillance powers, through legislative amendments. It expands the powers of CSIS to allow for surveillance activities in Canada and abroad, consequentially allowing CSEC to intercept, or allow other foreign agencies to intercept, telecommunications of Canadian citizens when travelling abroad. In addition, it requires that CSIS's human sources remain confidential, unless a court orders otherwise. This is despite a clear finding by the SCC in Harkat that this protection was not necessary given the broad powers which prevent public disclosure of harmful information under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Finally, it explicitly permits Canadian officials to violate international law and the laws of a foreign country by giving the Federal Court the power to issue a warrant authorizing activities that allow CSIS to investigate a security threat, whether or not those activities comply with the laws of the jurisdiction where they are being carried out. The proposed amendments may ultimately be found to be unconstitutional, but the government has nevertheless capitalized on the courts' suggestion that the principles of international law and the protections of the Charter can be legislated away.Read more - Lire plusTerrorism bill raises civil liberties questions
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Lawful access
Accès licite
Editorial: Conservative cyberlaws threaten privacy rights
The Toronto Star 23/11/2014 - Cyberbullying is bad. So are other cybercrimes, including child pornography, stalking and harassment. And every thug planning a robbery, carjacking or drug deal is equipped with a cellphone, tablet, Facebook page or Twitter account. Then there are the spies, credit card scammers, identity thieves, hackers, money-launderers and others who exploit the Internet. Cyberspace has its mean streets, and no one is going to disagree with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government that the police need up-to-date tools to track down the bad actors who prowl them. But as the Star's Alex Boutilier reports, federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel  Therrien has just reminded us that we should not surrender our constitutional rights to nail the bad guys. Despite a recent Supreme Court ruling that came down strongly on the side of digital privacy the government persists in pressing ahead with excessively intrusive cyber legislation that erodes that privacy. While claiming to fight cyberbullying and enhance digital privacy, the Tories are writing flawed law that will come back to bite us. [...] Therrien warns that Bill C-13 sharply lowers the barto police obtaining court orders to pry into citizens' private computer lives and digital activity. Instead of needing serious "grounds to believe" wrongdoing is going on, the police need only have "suspicion." On that desperately thin basis they can get a court order to obtain a person's name, address, banking card use, car movements, financial accounts, email addresses, Internet pages visited, files shared, web search history, and more.
Read more - Lire plusBill C-13 has little to do with cyberbullying
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Surveillance et vie privée
Surveillance and privacy
New documents show thousands of unreported wiretaps by Canadian cops
Motherboard 20/11/2014 - Very few law enforcement and government agencies in Canada openly detail the number of times they are legally authorized to eavesdrop on the communications of Canadians, making the true extent of electronic surveillance in Canada incredibly hard to gauge. But according to documents obtained exclusively by Motherboard, we now know this: at least 6,000  wiretaps and intercepts were authorized per year across all levels of government in Canada as of 2011. The slide deck, obtained via an Access to Information and Privacy Act request, also shows that approximately 12,000 requests for call detail records (CDRs)-a log of numbers dialled-were authorized per year. It is not clear whether those averages remain consistent today, but it is possible they may be even higher now given the increasing reliance on electronic surveillance in law enforcement investigations. Read more - Lire plus
UN adopts resolution condemning unlawful government surveillance
Privacy International 26/11/2014 - The United Nations today adopted an important resolution reaffirming the right to privacy in the digital age, condemning unlawful government mass surveillance and calling on member States to review their legislation and policies to ensure that they are in line with human rights law. Despite efforts by the United States, the "Five Eyes" surveillance alliance, and other states to weaken its language, the resolution reflects some of the important findings contained in the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report of July 2014. It clearly states that any digital surveillance program must be compliant with the right to privacy, and that any interference with the right to privacy must not be arbitrary and must be conducted on the basis of a legal framework, which is publicly  accessible, clear, precise, comprehensive and non-discriminatory. This resolution comes just hours after the release of a report by UK's intelligence oversight committee, the Intelligence and Security Committee, which suggested that internet companies should snoop through user data for the authorities. The resolution adopted today pushes back against this idea, stating that states must respect the right to privacy when they require disclosure of personal data from companies, as well as when they intercept digital communications of individuals or collect personal data.
Concretely, the resolution calls on states to to review their procedures, practices and legislation regarding surveillance to ensure that they are in line with their obligations under human rights law; to establish independent and effective oversight mechanisms over state surveillance's practices and to provide effective remedy to those individuals whose right to privacy has been violated by unlawful or arbitrary surveillance.
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The Intercept 20/11/2014 - They flow deep underneath the Atlantic Ocean and into the United Kingdom below the golden sands of idyllic beaches. But the internet cables that come ashore at the coast of Cornwall, England, are not just used to connect the country with the rest of the world. According to new reports based on documents from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, the cables have become an integral part of the global mass surveillance system operated by the British spy agency Government Communications Headquarters, intimately assisted  by a company now owned by Vodafone, the world's third largest cellphone network provider. [...] According to the reports, British telecommunications firms have helped GCHQ dramatically scale-up the volume of internet data it collects from undersea cables. In the five years leading up to 2012, there was a 7,000-fold increase in the amount of data the agency was sweeping up, with its computers monitoring some 46 billion private communications "events" every day, according to documents cited in the reports. The data swept up from the cables would include content from emails, online messages, browsing sessions, and calls made using internet chat tools. Read more - Lire plusNSA phone data collection could go on, even if a law expiresMilitary-grade malware linked to US and British intelligence agenciesDécouverte d'un logiciel d'espionnage furtif impliquant un ÉtatU.S. firms accused of enabling surveillance in despotic Central Asian regimesJameel Jaffer: There will be surveillance reformRon Deibert: The cyber security syndrome'Resist Surveillance': Amnesty backs Detekt tool to scan for state spyware on computersHow to encrypt the entire web for freeRussell Brand: Why are we really being spied on (video)
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Afghanistan
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Anti-terror legislation
Législation anti-terroriste
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Border controls
Contrôles frontaliers
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Civil liberties and democracy
Libertés civiles et démocratie
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Counter-terrorism and humanitarian assistance
Lutte au terrorisme et aide humanitaire
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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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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Intimidation of dissent
Intimidation de la dissidence
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Militarisation de la police
Militarization of police
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Politique et anti-terrorisme
Politics and anti-terrorism
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Press freedom
Liberté de la presse
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State secrecy
Secret d'État
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Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
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Terrorist listing
Liste d'entités terroristes
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Torture and rendition to torture
Torture et renvoi vers la torture
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Film
Citizenfour in Ottawa
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post 9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as "citizen four," who was ready to blow the whistle on  the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100% real life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.
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Action
Write a Letter to the Editor About Online Spying Bill C-13
Openmedia.ca - Bill C-13 will enable authorities to monitor the private lives of innocent Canadians, without any real oversight. It will even give telecom providers legal immunity for handing over your private information to the government without a  warrant. That means people harmed wouldn't even have the right to sue. This reckless Bill has been rammed through the House of Commons and will soon be voted on by the Senate. We urgently need to get the word out in local communities across Canada. |
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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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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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request to appear. In fact, over the objections of opposition MPs and civil libertarians who wanted to testify, no more witnesses will be called. Therrien, a former senior justice department lawyer responsible for the public safety, defence and immigration portfolio before his appointment last year, wrote the public safety committee Tuesday offering to appear to detail his concerns. 
