Category Archives: Internet
(Un)Lawful Access: Vancouver Premiere & Panel Discussion
The Conservative government is trying to push through a set of electronic surveillance laws that will invade your privacy and cost you money. The plan is to force every phone and Internet provider to allow “authorities” to collect the private information of any Canadian, at any time, without a warrant.
Find out more THIS THURSDAY at 6:30 PM. Continue reading
Transparent Practices Don’t Stop Prejudicial Surveillance
Drawing from lessons around privacy codes and those around Canadian ISPs’ surveillance practices, I argue that transparency constitutes a necessary but insufficient measure to mitigate prejudicial surveillance practices and technologies. We must go further and inject public values into development cycles while also intentionally hobbling surveillance technologies to rein in their most harmful potentialities. Continue reading
The Anatomy of Lawful Access Phone Records
The aim of this post is to make clear just how much information is contained in a single lawful access “phone record”, demonstrating that the government is seeking information that grossly exceeds what is contained in the white or yellow pages today. As a result, I first provide an example phone record that resembles those in every phonebook in Canada and then offer an example of a lawful access record. Continue reading
Lawful Access, Its Potentials, and Its Lack of Necessity
Police and other authorities should not be permitted to infringe upon Canadians’ rights and further erode expectations of communicative privacy, associative privacy, or basic dignities on the basis of cross-jurisdictional envy. Continue reading
