Category Archives: Surveillance
Letter to Stephen Harper on Lawful Access Legislation
Working from the most recent lawful access bills, which died when the last election was called, advocates and academics have come together to draft a letter of concerns to the Prime Ministers Office (PMO). Continue reading
Creeping Towards a State of Surveillance
An announcement for my forthcoming talk entitled “Creeping Towards a State of Surveillance.” In the talk I’ll be providing an introduction to the gravity and nuances of surveillance legislation and disclosing some of the ‘tricks’ that are used to acquire considerable amounts of personal information by exploiting citizens’ ignorance of contemporary policing activities. Continue reading
Vancouver’s Human Flesh Search Engine
The actions taken to identify, name, and shame alleged rioters is the beginning of a long slide towards a state of mind and looseness of ethics that have been proven to cause harm abroad: I see no reason, based on those experiences, why we should import known, failed, modes of citizen surveillance and investigation. Continue reading
Released: Literature Review of Deep Packet Inspection
The abstract for my recently completed literature review of deep packet inspection, as well as a link to download the .pdf version of the review. Continue reading
