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The results of a recent audit of PEI's freedom of information system does not paint an accurate picture of how well it's working, says a local newspaper publisher. (CBC) REPORT: 2011 FOI audit FOI audit frenzy Newspapers Canada Frugal with information

Watchdog 'disturbed'

OTTAWA - Canada's privacy watchdog says federal government institutions are showing a "disturbing" lack of regard for protecting the privacy of Canadians. (PostMedia) REPORTS: Annual report to Parliament 2009-2010 Personal information disposal practices Protection of personal information Jennifer Stoddart

Alarm on smart meter data

Picture this: You sign up for an energy conservation scheme that lets your local utility shut down your air conditioner temporarily if the power grid is overloaded. (Toronto Star) REPORT: Building privacy into the Smart Grid Fading data

Botched

VICTORIA - Mistakes, missed opportunities and bureaucratic bungling led more than two dozen officials to botch the BC government’s response to a major privacy breach, according to a scathing internal review. REPORTS: Jan 29, 2010 letter Privacy Breach Human Resources Review Internal Review - Privacy Breach Internal Review - Interim Report: Privacy Breach (.pdfs)

'Not to disclose the existence of this request'

PHILADELPHIA - The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization. (CBS) MORE: Anatomy of a bogus subpoena

Casinos sent to the fringes

MOSCOW - Thousands of casinos, slot-machine parlors and betting halls across Russia shut down complying with sweeping new restrictions that require all gambling business to relocate to four remote regions of the country. (AP) MORE: Russia bans casinos Putin sends casinos to Siberia

Journalists win access to files

TORONTO - Journalists had been cut off from information in court files as a result of a long-standing policy of Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General that prevented the public from obtaining accurate news reports about cases in the justice system. (Toronto Star)

US court throws out 'wardrobe malfunction' fine

PHILADELPHIA - A US federal appeals court threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. on Monday for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction." (AP) PREVIOUS: Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy

Privacy law's stifling effect on research

VICTORIA - The chairman of an all-party legislative committee that rejected a plea to change a law that is stifling health research says he is surprised at the ill effects the law is having on scientific research. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Privacy law freezes Health research

'Advisers' to enforce Bill 101

QUEBEC - In the wake of a tempest over the survival of French in Quebec, Language Minister Christine St-Pierre presented her action plan yesterday - which calls for voluntary compliance and a beefed-up crew of "language advisers." (Montreal Gazette)

Microsoft disconnects gamers

Thousands of gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games. Online reports suggest that as many as 600,000 gamers may have been affected. Microsoft has not said how it was able to determine which gamers to disconnect. (BBC) PREVIOUS: Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software 'Kill switch' dropped from Vista

Shrinking freedom

CALGARY - Freedom of expression is under attack on Canada's university campuses, according to speakers at a national civil liberties conference at the University of Calgary. (PostMedia) Rights Watch conference,

This is not a big brother crackdown

EDMONTON - Alberta's transportation minister is defending the new distracted driver legislation, insisting that it will not lead to a big brother crackdown. (CTV)

Call for open governments

WHITEHORSE - Canada's governments, in the interest of gaining public trust and building a "robust democracy," should open their files and provide much more information to Canadians. MORE: Resolution of Canada's access to information and privacy commissioners Put data online Open government

Canada bans decals

OTTAWA - Officials with the federal ministry have banned a series of gag luggage decals that depict realistic images of suitcases stuffed with US greenbacks, bags of cocaine, sex toys and even a bound and gagged flight attendant. (Toronto Star) MORE: Ministry is not amused

Threat to national security

DUBAI - The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smartphones made by Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse. (AP)

Watchdog raises alarm

OTTAWA - Were you the person who recently cashed a government-issued cheque for under $300 at your local trust company? You probably never expected to be flagged as suspicious, but you were, says Canada's privacy commissioner in a new audit of Canada's financial watchdog agency. (Toronto Star) REPORT: Annual report to Parliament 2008-2009

Every adult is a potential threat

LONDON - Previous employers and professional bodies are under a legal duty to inform the ISA if they think someone poses a risk. (Telegraph UK) MORE: Scheme defended Vetting children's authors This stupid law will turn us into outlaws This vetting monster will harm children

Law may have 'glitches'

PORT HOPE - Ontario Liberal Lou Rinaldi says he will look for “glitches” in the new law banning drivers from smoking in a vehicle containing children. (CP) PREVIOUS: Busted Matter of time before someone 'snaps'

Vehicles will be tracked

VANCOUVER - Next spring, there'll be eyes on the Golden Ears Bridge. As the first electronically tolled bridge in western Canada, slated for completion in spring 2009, it will be equipped with toll sensors and digital cameras to track the identification of every vehicle that travels on the one-kilometre span. (Vancouver Sun)

Did Deutsche Telekom spy

BONN - Had it not been for the money, there is a good chance that the entire "unsavory story" - as a senior executive at German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG called it last week - would never have come to light. (Spiegel) MORE: Deutsche Telekom uncovers data misuse in spy probe Data abuse can't be ruled out by any provider

Reporters ordered to reveal sources

OTTAWA - A federal court judge has ordered two Montreal newspaper reporters to reveal who leaked a confidential Canadian Security Intelligence Service document that accused Adil Charkaoui of being an Al Qaeda member. . (Toronto Star) MORE: Journalists must answer questions about leaded report

Your tax dollars at work

VICTORIA - Peace is being declared in the tug of war between public health officials and Victoria City Hall over Victoria's Old Morris Tobacconist. PREVIOUS: Heritage signs semi-ok Catch-22 Catch-22 (logic) The out of sight, out of mind solution

Quebec spells doom to 'zoom, zoom, zoom'

MONTREAL - Transport Minister Julie Boulet proposed an amendment to the highway safety bill that will give the provincial auto insurance board a mandate to come up with guidelines to ban ads that depict "heedless, careless or dangerous behaviour and gestures." (Montreal Gazette)

Privacy threats no longer 'Terra Incogtnita'

MONTREAL - International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner's conference (Michael Geist) PREVIOUS: Phone data law extends surveillance power No escaping Big Brother Technology turning citizens into spies Making data anonymous can be tricky

Urban rules

New federal legislation designed to curb money laundering and terrorism has made banking difficult for some people in Arctic Canada. Under the rigorous legislation, every account must be linked to an address with a street name. But many northern communities don't have street names. (CBC)

Access without warrants

TORONTO - An Ontario Superior Court ruling could open the door to police routinely using Internet Protocol addresses to find out the names of people online, without any need for a search warrant. (CanWest)

Police need warrant

Privacy czar questions need

Surveillance society keeps an eye out

Word 'nuclear' wiped from record

Confidential computer dodges info laws

Records on G-wagon now a secret

Privacy Commissioner

Facebook has privacy gaps

Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law

An Internet that never forgets Astroturfing

Government to access personal information

DND relents, release once-public information

Feds push for greater access to private info

Should police be able to crack into your BlackBerry?

Freedom on the Net 2011

Censoring the Internet

Personal information at risk

OAG: Managing identity information

Privacy management frameworks

Report of the Auditor General of Canada

Matters of special importance 2008

Easier Internet access a tool police don't need

Feds to give cops Internet snooping powers

Bill to require surveillance capabilities

Law would let police snoop on online

Government looks to increase surveillance

What do they know about you?

EU probes Google over privacy concerns

Big Brother is watching you online

Sacrifice civil liberties for security

Cops buying cell phone records online

Battle for access rages on the Hill

Government pledges no warrantless disclosure

Government opens up talks on Internet Privacy

Latest tool in the war on free speech

WATERLOO - Chained by his neck to two female protesters, University of Waterloo doctoral student Dan Kellar was nevertheless in control of the situation at a campus lecture hall last week, as he sat on stage and chanted slogans to prevent journalist and author Christie Blatchford from speaking about her new book. (National Post)

2 speakers, 2 standards

Bastions of censorship

Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy

Bureaucrat paid big bucks for spin

Christie Blatchford

Privacy ranking

Canada is one of the world's leading nations when it comes to protecting the privacy of its citizens, but this country's safeguards are slipping, says a new international survey. (CanWest) REPORT: 2007 International privacy ranking

Ottawa chooses secrecy

OTTAWA - The federal government has rejected calls to modernize and expand Canada's Access to Information Act, despite warnings that the program is collapsing under bureaucratic foot-dragging and political negligence. (Toronto Star)

The State of Surveillance

LONDON - A secretive multi-billion dollar industry is offering cutting-edge systems that enable governments to identify, track and monitor people through their phones and computers, a cache of hundreds of surveillance brochures and other marketing materials reveals. These brochures and other marketing material, known as the ‘Spy Files’, are released today by WikiLeaks and London-based human rights group Privacy International. They shine a light on this shadowy industry, which is worth $5B and is growing fast. (BIJ)

Watchdog concerns

Watchdog urges caution

Lawful access concerns

Toews won't bend on laws

Surveillance project

WikiLeaks out Canadians companies

Homeland working on guidelines

Technology in the hands of despots

Bleeding edge security fence

Homeland blamed

Boeing misreported progress

SBInet

Bleeding edge technology

Too much information collected

Aviation security violates rights

Privacy report 2010-2011

DHS needs oversight .pdf

Australia backs down

CANBERRA - Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has capitulated to widespread concerns over his internet censorship policy and delayed any mandatory filters until at least next year. (SMH)

Conroy shelves net filters as election looms

Google refuses censor request

Stephen Conroy

"RC' information?

Courts deal body blow to filter

Cyber attacks against AU will continue

Delays to firewall

Google government requests

AU Internet debate

Australia's 'Internet Filter"

Australia's Big Brother internet filtering

Cleanfeed Cybertip.ca

Australia to implement internet censorship

Internet censorship in Australia

Internet censorship

Global Network Initiative

Failure to launch

Censorship filters coming

Big Brother's big ears

Hong Kong, in all its money-worshipping glory, is utterly unlike the grim dictatorship George Orwell conjured up in his chilling novel "1984." Yet there is one similarity: the city's law enforcement agencies, legal experts warn, have embraced covert surveillance with the zeal of Orwell's all-seeing Thought Police. (Newsweek)

Limits on sealing search warrants ignored

HAMILTON - Prominent media lawyers say police and justice officials aren't heeding a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that set limits on how search warrants can be sealed and kept from the public. (Hamilton Spectator) RELATED: NCC study a secret

Top court asked to weigh in

OTTAWA - The National Post is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to hear an appeal that could define the rights of the media to protect confidential courses. The document was connected to the newspaper's ongoing reporting of what was dubbed Shawinigate, about alleged conflicts of interest by former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and public money spent in his riding. (CanWest)

The buck stops here

Adscam: The Sponsorship Scandal

Sidewinder and the Asian triads

Why did fed kill information registry

Tories kill information registry

CAIRS

AG balks at vetting by PMO

Why did fed kill information registry

CAIRS No respect

Tories kill information registry

Confidential sources are essential

National Post ordered to hand over document

Court overturns ruling on sources

Reporters do not have 'automatic right' to protect sources

John Laskin Janet Simmons Eileen Gillese

Chrétien receives Order of Canada

’Force of the state met its match'

OTTAWA - An Ontario Superior Court judge has struck down a law used to obtain search warrants that authorized controversial RCMP raids on Ottawa Citizen journalist Juliet O'Neill's home and office in January, 2004. Judge Lynn Ratushny ruled yesterday parts of Section 4 of the Security of Information Act are unconstitutional because they violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. (CanWest)

Appeals court overturns ruling

Appeal court overturns charge

Ottawa Citizen investigated

MPs launch probe

He had a license to kill

Chance to overhaul security act

Judge quashes warrants used in raid

Injusticebusters: Juliet O'Neill

Security of Information Act

Tribunal strikes again

VANCOUVER - A Toronto comedian and Vancouver restaurant owner were ordered to pay $22,500 by a BC Human Rights Tribunal on Thursday after the standup comic hurled a torrent of sexual insults at a woman and her same-sex partner during a comedy show three years ago. (Vancouver Sun)

2011 BCHRT 101 .pdf

Comedian ordered to pay

New low for kangaroo court

Nanny-state interference

Regulator asks for review

Dire Straits Money for Nothing.

CRTC pulled into censorship scandal

Censors know best

1985's #1 selling record

Regulators censors classic rock

CBSC Ruling

Clash of the vested interests

Vested interest

Lawyer wants tribunal cited

Funny business

'Bonkers' use of Act

Mall cops accused

World's most easily offended country

Human rights tribunal ruling

Human rights meets their match

Hate law goes to 'most absurd level'

Rights tribunal faces dissolution

Everybody's a victim

Protest hurt business

Importance of mockery

No laughing matter

Tribunal members

Internet killed the hate law

Censored stories for 2010

CHRC investigates

Hate speech laws violate Constitution

Hate speech law unconstitutional

2009 CRTC 26

Lawyers must come to aid

Please send reinforcements

A bad night at Zesty's

Lawyer walks out

Please don't call it "human rights'

Canadian ruling 'offensive'

Rights hearing process illegal

Surreal spectacle

No charges for call to kill soldiers

Dangerous evolution

Canada slips

Reporters Without Borders

Press freedom index 2009

SCC to review ruling

Call for probe

Unjustified infringement

AB must amend Human Rights Act

Free speech at long last

End the witch hunts for good

'It's a great day'

Phony courts, phony racism

2009 HRTO 877

Selective multiculturalism

The human rights set-up

Collected writings of Salman Hossain

AG reviewing request

Exec's anti-Canada tirade

Canadian Arab Federation

CAF letter asks PM to muzzle minister

Subsidizing hatred

Our right to speak

Jennifer Lynch

Free expression wrong

Tribunal dismisses a complaint

Human rights

Rights revisited

Lynch's misinformed commission

CHRC doesn't have a clue

Lynch mob

How to get around web censors

Psiphon Freegate

Critics are unbalanced

Thank the thought police for this idea

Why censorship is impossible

CHRC want to squash free-speech

Commission wants to stay in business

CHRC tries to bully CTV

'Disappointing and disturbing'

White supremacy group warned

5 year probe

Manitoba Human Rights Commission

Human rights gone awry

Does the UN really matter?

Complaint dismissed Tribunal ruling

Cut off the CAF

Accepted 100% of refugees

Sympathizer was board member

'Zionist campaign'

Just don't expect taxpayers to pay

Non-profits need to get back to basics

Withdrawn charges stay on record

CRTC will review hands-off approach

CRTC out of control

Commission out of control

Censor seeks red pencil

National censorship council

Resisting the censors

Dispersing the Fog

When government controls opinion

Repeal hate speech provision

Time for Parliament to take action

Common sense on free speech

Moon report

Ottawa must end this censorship

Latest power grab

Regulators turn to the internet

Decision clarifies fair comment

BC Human Rights rejects complaint

Calls for Restrictions Management

Former premier to head association

Punished first, acquitted later

Another human rights commission

Report to the CHRC

Rights commission to correct Judge

Canada's rights commissions

Don't say a word

Censorship in Canada

'Deeply Hurt'

Human rights commission hell

Maclean's wins 3rd round

BC Human Rights Tribunal

2008 BCHRT 378 .pdf

Aw nuts, we won

BC Human Rights fiasco

Web expands hate speech law

Lawyers attach restrictions

Woman files suit over children

Tribunal dismisses complaint

SCC overturns BC Court ruling

2008 SCC 40

Commissions of Human Wrongs

BC human rights complaint filed

Kenny Hotz Showcase TV

Welcome to Canada

Complaint exposes flaw

CHRC complaint thrown out

CHRC dismisses complaint

Finally, good news on 'human rights'

Free speech polices need reform

Next laugh on BC Human Rights

Comedian to BC human rights

Comedian defends 'rude' words

Woman offended by noisy children

Commission rejects complaint

AB human rights protest shelved

Free legal advice, fishing expeditions

All speech is free in Canada except

Human Rights Act foils debate

BC human rights tribunal

100% conviction rate

All about freedom of the press

The court of last resort

Another Islamic group files complaint

Battle of Khartoon comes to Halifax

Ontario Human Rights Commission

Warman wins another rights case

Anyone care about free speech?

Human flesh search engines

CHRC to police the internet

Fine line to tread

An assault on speech

The lawyers get the last word

Expert witness

Mahmoud Ayoub

Another expert witness

Idiot's guide to idiotic CHR

Temple University rejects IIIT endow

Live blogging the BC HRT

RCMP investigation into CHRC

Why you should care

Fire the censors

Fighting for freedom

CHRC to examine hateFree speech

CHRC’s system wins IT award

Time to fold up rights commissions

The fight against censorship

To turn a neo-Nazi into a martyr

Canada's kangaroo court

Landmark disaster for the CHRC

Censure the censors

Scrutinizing the rights machine

CHRC still doesn't get it

That poor woman down the street

Lemire files complaint against CHRC

Reform rights commissions

Imam drops rights dispute

Kate McMillan Kathy Shaidle

Complaints & Lawsuits

Rights complainant sues again

Hey, why bother with a trial?

Era of thought police has arrived

Campaign of Warman

Human rights

$14.1M to improve censor

Commission vs. Commission

Jeers and loathing at tribunal

Investigator admits to using lies

Kangaroo court is now in session

Too many rights make a wrong

Muslims test press freedom limits

Liberal MP wants change to rights act

Ezra Levant's opening remarks

Clean-up partisan public service

Alberta's gauntlet of bias

Defiant Levant republishes cartoons

It's a human right to be an idiot

The right not to be offended

First they came....

Home invasion

Catholic magazine target of complaint

Quit Validating Professional Victims

Call 1-800-Human-Rights

Children? Not if you love the planet

Commission 'groundbreaking' ruling

Reform Commissions

The suicide of reason in Canada

Canada's thought police

CP wakes up to free speech threat

BC Human Rights Tribunal

Canadian Human Rights Commission

Mark Steyn

Steyn online

America Alone

In defence of the Western Standard

Cartoon controversy

Canadian Islamic Congress

Mohamed Elmasry

Syed B. Soharwardy

Let's not be racist about racism

CIC launches rights complaints

What a lot of garbage

Dolores Umbridge Barbara Hall

Suing for silence

Is abolishing necessary?

Tory raise base pay to $455,000

Myths, legends and human rights

The new totalitarians

Mark Steyn has a right to be wrong

Censorship as 'Human Rights'

Western Standard sued

Alberta Human Rights & Citizenship

Western Standard publishes cartoons

Jyllands-Posten cartoons controversy

Strippers just the start

NIAGARA FALLS - So the strippers of Niagara Falls have their knickers in a knot about getting fingerprinted. Same will go for cabbies, bus drivers and anyone else renewing licences. (QMI)

Star wins court fight

Information laws widely interpreted

Freedom-of-information

Access to information audit

Behind the veil of secrecy

2008 freedom of information .pdf

Everybody's a criminal

BC wants anybody having sex tested

Another communications ban

2007 Freedom of Information audit

Self-preservation overrules

Fighting our culture of secrecy

Canada's culture of secrecy

Great wall of secrecy

No such thing as free speech

Entitled

Canada: Life in a banana republic

Non-Profit Industry

Regulators

Citizens offer take on news

A news agenda formulated by citizens would be radically different from that put together by journalists. That is the conclusion of a US study which compared what made the headlines in the mainstream media with that of three diverse user-driven news sources. (BBC)

The latest headline - your vote counts

Scientist use the "Dark Web"

Chinese web filtering 'erratic'

Software turns photos

Google modifying St View program

Google Street View may be illegal

Making health info free

Tracking you on the web

YouTube allowed to mask identities

Internet helping to break censorship

Google ordered to hand over details

Judge throws users to the wolves

Twitter hands over user

LONDON - The social network has passed the name, email address and telephone number of a south Tyneside councillor accused of libelling the local authority via a series of anonymous Twitter accounts. South Tyneside council took the legal fight to the superior court of California, which ordered Twitter, based in San Francisco, to hand over the user's private details. (Guardian UK)

Twitter reveals user

Court opens Twitter to US government

US can get data without warrant

US can access anything

Khan defends himself

Civil disobedience Injunction

Gag order Tort reform

Investors beware of Lloyds of London

Streisand effect

Blow to EU libel lawyers

European Court of Human Rights

Latest 'super-injunction' lifted

Playing away

UK libel laws at work, again

Rise in 'libel tourism'

Libel row

New Statesman blog

Nadhmi Auchi.

British libel laws under attack

Did Saddam bagman help Obama

Giggs named in House of Commons

Tweets about super injunction spike

How long will this go on

UK judges at work

'Libel tourists' laws rejected

Stop judges gagging orders

UK laws in action

UK blocks nude photos, videos

Libel laws should be repealed

Pollution disaster Trafigura files

UN criticizes handling of toxic ship

2006 Cote d'Ivoire toxic waste spill

Trafigura

Blogger vs. billionaire

Craig Murray Alisher Usmanov Schillings

British libel laws under attack

Growth area for UK libel lawyers

Report highlights blog censorship

Press Freedom Index 2007

Author mounts 'libel tourism' challenge

US writer fights gagging order

Rezko's billionaire buddy

Libel tourism

Court gives cash cow to lawyers

Ruling is a victory for the public

Court gives media new latitude

Censorship in Canada Censorship

Internet censorship Self censorship

Chilling effect

Saudi billionaire's lawsuit

Cambridge University Press

The Vanishing Jihad exposes

Khalid Bin Mahfouz

Censored by Allah Apology

Alms for Jihad' Rachel Ehrenfeld

Terrorism & censorship meet

Lawbreakers

TORONTO - Almost 49,000 tickets have been issued to drivers who have been caught breaking Ontario's cellphone ban. (CP)

BC issues 32,000 tickets

Bad news for food tax lobby

Employers on the legal hook

Banning wouldn't outlaw stupidity

The cops came and took my gun

Licence plate censors doing their job

Big brother bylaw a load of BS

Criminalizing everyone

Ban unlikely to work

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Crackdown on distracted drivers

Cellphone risks

Kids and cellphone warning

Health bummer

Cancer may be different disease

School bans balls

Gun registry survives

Fear drove MPs

Vote leaves police image wounded

Armed citizens look to their own

Firearms and violent crime

Timmy's doesn't understand food tax

Canada focuses on daily salt intake

Smoking ban in effect

Thank you city hall

Guilty until found innocent

BC cell phone ban

Cell phone ban misses key risk

MPs: guilty until proven innocent

Random tests for drunk drivers

Chiefs call for electronics driving ban

Regulating drinking habits

Premier open to car gadgets ban

Toronto bans shark fin

Shark fin free zone Shark fin

City loses 'slip and fall' appeal

Claims routinely tossed

Bottle ban a sign of the times

Going to town on bottled water

Long term urban plan

Defiance can end in arrest

Quebec to sue tobacco industry

Ontario files $50B suit

Trucker busted for smoking

Resurgence of contraband cigarettes

Smokers find refuge in secret dens

Anti-Smoking Laws Blanket Canada

Youth smoking declines another 11%

Landlords weed out smokers

Bosses may refuse jobs to smokers

Cannabis

Smoking ban

Anti-cellphone driving laws in effect

Cellphone as risky as alcohol

Toronto to ban smoking in apartments

Alberta bans underage musicians

Marines ban new tattoos

New Delhi bans smoking at the wheel

San Francisco to ban plastic bags

Interracial marriage ban

Prohibition of alcohol

Sex, drugs and rock & roll

Long hair

Obesity

Can ban ends for PEI residents

Smoking movie stars to be fined

Smoking students can request escort

ISP intercept bill reintroduced

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives have reintroduced legislation that would allow police and intelligence officials to intercept online communications and get personal information from internet service providers (ISPs) about their subscribers without first obtaining a warrant. (CBC)

Canadians concerned about laws

Always under surveillance

Surveillance Project

Electronic records a privacy issue

Germany, Canada watchdog's list

Leading surveillance societies

Sun Eye Spy series

Hackers put porn on gov't computers

VICTORIA - BC government computers were used to store pornographic material by hackers who recently compromised the province's system. (Times Colonist)

Hackers get inside province's system

Sensitive files on stolen computers

Welfare worker stole rent cheques

In future, tapes to be destroyed

Refugee claim files found on tapes

BC to probe auctioned health records

Policy 'unconstitutionally vague'

NEW YORK - A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission's indecency policy, calling it "unconstitutionally vague" and a violation of the First Amendment. (TV Guide)

Ruled that the policy .pdf

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

ABC faces fine

Gay' Snickers spot

CBS fined for 'Trace' of indecency

Federal Communications Commission

Stones' Super Bowl songs censored

Telus halts sale of adult content

Why Telus ditched its plans

Spy coin deemed harmless

WASHINGTON - An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the US Defense Department's false espionage warning earlier this year. The odd-looking - but harmless - "Poppy Coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. (AP)

DSS statement on coins incorrect

Toonie

US Warns Against Spying Coins

Transmitters in coins

Collection Trends in the Defense Industry 2006 .pdf

BC husband dies

VANCOUVER - The 96-year-old husband of a 91-year-old B.C. woman who died alone after being moved from their bedside last month, sparking a provincial investigation, has died. Al Albo's family confirmed his death on Thursday, less than two weeks after the death of his wife of nearly seven decades, Fanny Albo. (CBC)

PREVIOUS: Report chastizes medical staff for death BC hospital crowding blamed for senior's death Senior dies after being separated from husband

Citizens free to criticize government, court rules

MONTAGUE TOWNSHIP - A judge has thrown out a unique lawsuit in which an Ottawa-area township attempted to sue one of its citizens for defamation for complaining about the shoddy performance of the volunteer fire department. The suit was believed to be one of the first in Canada in which a government tried to sue a citizen for speaking out. (Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS: Township's lawsuit casts chill over free speech

Wi-Fi users 'unknowing informants'

TORONTO - Wi-Fi systems on smartphones and laptops may be used to secretly report the locations of users, their family and friends unless changes are made to their design, warns Ontario privacy commissioner. (CBC)

Beware of unintended consequences

Ann Cavoukian

New FBI surveillance rules

Return of the plumbers

Moving out of US control

FBI want backdoors

US hypocrisy

Homeland shuts down 84,000 innocent sites

Surveillance went beyond wiretaps

How the US forged a surveillance society

Top Secret America

Congress knew about spying

Cheney directed CIA to be silent

ISP added spy code to web sessions

British Telecom 'Phorm' report

FBI wants instant access to identity data

FBI cast wide net when targeting phone records

Court puts limits on surveillance

Secret US court ruling limits spy powers

Federal judge orders end to wiretap program

AG: Bush blocked eavesdropping probe

US searching bank transactions

Warrantless wiretapping yielded limited results

US lawmakers pass warrantless wiretaps bill

The President's surveillance program .pdf

Bush signs bill expanding surveillance powers

GovTrack: history and status of bill H.R. 1

Looking for a leaker

Bush agrees to review of spy program

Congress Oks US eavesdropping bill

NSA spying part of broader effort

Amid concerns, FBI lapses went on

Secret court to monitor US spy program

Challenge promised over ruling in spy case

Wiretap Ruling Threatens Telecoms

Presidential signing statements

Examples of the president's signing statements

Text of the signing statements 2001-2006

FBI denies routinely tracking reporters' calls

What agency might do with your telephone calls

Telecoms let NSA spy on calls

Our phone calls not being tracked, spy agency

Phone calls are just the start

Breaking the law

NSA secret database report triggers debate

FBI scrutinized 3,501 without a court's approval

Feds try to dismiss domestic spying suit

Beware, the Internet is watching you

Telus users on the hook

Group sues AT&T over domestic wiretaps

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Surveillance found to yield few suspects

Police bypass subpoenas

NASH has massive database of phone calls

Social network

Judge blocks law criminalizing web porn

PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge on Thursday threw out a 1998 law that makes it a crime for commercial website operators to let children access "harmful" material. In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of adults to free speech. "Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over a four-week trial last fall. (AP)

FBI illegally used Patriot Act

Google only search engine to fight

DOJ actually subpoenaed companies

Government subpoenas dozens

Judge to order Google to turn over records

Searching for searches

Google defies US over search data

Feds seek Google's search records

A tale of two eavesdroppings

Google shows its true colors

No booze or jokes for Googlers

Web Anonymizers get very popular

US technology used to censor Net

Internet filtering in China 2004-2005

Telus blocks consumer access

Green light for genetic screening

LONDON - The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) gave the green light to preconception genetic tests to determine whether people carry conditions that could be passed on to their future children. (Telegraph UK)

Increasing options, informing choice

Snoops to enter family homes

Security flaws

Right to privacy broken

10 ways to track the citizen

Black boxes to record website visit

Database state .pdf

U-turn over vetting

Intercept plans beset by flaws

'Snoop' power is used 1,400 times

Government ads run 10,000 times

Spy centre will track you

A week in the surveillance society

UK sites could be given age ratings

Passports needed to buy phones

UK to store all calls, and internet visits

Broad new 'Big Brother' surveillance

Gotcha, no escape

Speed camera blamed

Computers create rubbish profile

'Soviet' boroughs

Surveillance society

Councils told to stop snooping

Phones tapped - 1,000 a day

Councils to handout fines

Council spy cases hits 1,000 a month

Offenders must get 'badges of shame'

Home Office: anti-social behaviour

Plan to toughen up on offenders

Louise Casey

Billboards that look back

Benefits were exaggerated

Big Brother was watching Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair

15M Brits losing saving in Safe Bet

Speeding tickets increase by 1M

Right to rubbish bin collection

Police have access to database

ContactPoint

Cameras watch you put bin out

'Big Brother' database

Numbered for life

EU plans biometric border checks

Britain is 'surveillance society'

New visas 'exporting the borders'

New child checks

The main proposals

CCTV gives Big Brother a voice

Giant ID computer plan scrapped

Database record the lives of children

Council spies on family

RIPA

Phone tap evidence

Interception of Communications

British national identity card

National Identity Scheme

500,000 DNA database mistakes

Police want bigger DNA database

Safety fears over new register

ID cards 'Big Brother tax trap'

Fines from speed cameras soar

Caught on camera

Road charges introduced by stealth

Ex-MI5 chief sparks ID card row

Rebels to face prison over ID cards

Guardian: Explaining ID cards

UK illegal immigrant figure revealed

Criminals to 'adapt to ID cards'

ID card plan

ID cards a 'present' to criminals

Cash for fake ID scandal

Word on the street...they're listening

Britain fails fake passport test

My fake passports and me

Britain to monitor every car journey

Knife scanners to be used UK-wide

Passports issued to false claimants

Cities caught shortening yellow light times for profit

Short yellow light times at intersections have been shown to increase the number of traffic violations and accidents. Conversely, increasing the yellow light duration can dramatically reduce red-light violations at an intersection. (Motorist)

BC money grab

Increased 'safety' didn't pay off

Hypocrisy makes a loud statement

Case for speed cameras destroyed in a flash

Cash cow

Local teens claim pranks on speed cams

Red-light cameras cause more accidents

Red light cameras too good

Red light cameras reduce deaths, but

Airlines to demand kids ID

OTTAWA - Children who appear to be 12 years of age or older will have to present government-issued ID to board an airplane once Transport Canada's new no-fly list comes into force in March. The new rules mean that children as young as 10 or 11 could be denied the right to board domestic flights if they can't produce government photo ID or present two pieces of non-photo ID issued by government. (Ottawa Citizen)

Feds mum on no-fly list

Canada to launch no-fly list in spring

Fingerprints, scans to speed border crossings

Canada Unveils Border Security Plan

Canada's "New Government" invests over $430M for smart, secure borders

Fake licences aiding terror

The document problem

Bogus licences traced to Alberta

Identity theft feeds $1B gaming black market

Fines levied for Internet resume scams

Bill prompts warning

A Vancouver-based communication watchdog agency has launched 3 PSA-style videos online warning Canadians about a proposed bill that would allow authorities to access their private information. (CTV)

Bill C-52

Ordinary times, extraordinary powers

Censors take aim at free speech

Shared vision or myopia

Deal could erode privacy

Forensics tool expose online activity

Growth industry

States seek to kill federal 'Real ID' requirements

Brain scans being misused as lie detectors

Fake driver's licences used

'Real' false IDs

US can take your electronics

Secure passport, still isn't

Taking security into their own hands

The boss is watching

Someone's watching you

EU concern at US data transfers

Privacy Breach

Personal data as commodity

Copy machines spill identity secrets

What THEY know

Real ID Act

Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE)

Deep packet inspection

Secret wiretaps flying under the radar

Someone is watching

Probe into Facebook

Facebook 'violates privacy laws'

Electronic strip search troubling

Millimeter wave whole body imaging

Screeners get a closer look

Canadians not welcome

Passport please

Tighter security restrictions

Western hemisphere travel initiative

DHS: Crossing borders WHTI

Passport required for US travel

What did Canada ever do to you?

E-passports get F for privacy

Elvis may be in the building

ePassport

US passport problem

OTI `ePassport'

US group wants China 'spy' probe

US to issue RFID enabled passports

Biometric passport

Hackers crack new passports

'Fakeproof' e-passport cloned

ePassports 'at risk' from cloning

Hard line

Fake visas, degrees 'alarming'

Canadian held for 11 hours

Feds rate travelers' potential for terror

US sees you coming

DHS Automated Targeting System (ATS)

New rules make firms track e-mails

Special Report: Privacy lost

US rules wiretaps 'Gobbledygook'

Radio tags spark privacy worries

RFID Consultation website

80 cameras watch tiny Alaska town

Controlling the frequency system

Carlyle Group

Mobile tracking devices on trial

RFID

RFID pose risks

Wiretapping, European-style

Back door to North American ID card

Security flawed electronic passports

National ID card back on the agenda

Don't expect special identity card

Alarms work, documents didn't

Western Hemisphere travel initiative

National ID card

Border-crossing cards

US opening some private mail

NSA mined vast data trove

FBI monitors Muslims for radiation

Homeland Insecurity

Wanted: Competent Big Brothers

White House web site revelation

The Constitution versus itself

Whistleblower system is broken

US to deploy high-tech security

Big brother in small packages

Bush's snoopgate

Bush lets US spy without courts

Listening in on the enemy

Communications Security Establishment

Pentagon to increase domestic surveillance

Pentagon runs clandestine infrastructure

Future of pizza orders

'Massive empire of surveillance'

Keeping an eye on Big Brother

US VISIT program

Public, justice disagree on criminal database

High-tech border pass raises alarm

Problems with the Real ID system

Your boss can now track you on your cell phone

Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger

Have you ever been wired tapped?

Wiretaps surged 19% in 2004

The Echelon report

Technology alters threat of spying

Bill C -74: Investigative Techniques Act

38th Parliament: House Government Bills

Act makes it easy for cop spying

You are exposed

Privacy czar blasts police for secrecy

Privacy International

Spy imagery agency watching inside US

The Surveillance-Industrial Complex

Spy in the sky eyes US

Healthy ’choice' costly

TORONTO - The next five-year contract for all vending machines in parks, forestry and recreation facilities will bring in about $1M less to city coffers than the previous term. (National Post)

Choice a winner

Trouble with experts

Experts who know so little

Expert on experts

Science cheats must be exposed

Blackened names

Canadian science fraudster

School bans cancer bracelets

School bans soy spread

Canadian Tobacco use survey 2010

Gene missing

Do you want trans-fats or fascism?

BC trans-fat regulations in effect

Let them eat cake

Quebecers can remove winter tires

Telling the good fats

Alberta axes trans-fat initiative

BC bans trans-fat

Science shouldn't stand in way

18% report smoking

2009 Canadian Tobacco Use Survey

Prevent Trafficking Act of 2009

Rights fight heats up

Children's sports liability waivers void

The end of the Nation-State

The Orwellian power of anonymity

Hospitals are no places for food Nazis

Personal choices cause deaths

Health industry stereotypes wrong

Warning for parent of fat children

Parents too serious

Children deprived of adventurous play

Smoking disability

Numbers dropping

Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring

Time we put our dollars elsewhere

Decline in smoking rates flatlines

Nanny state

BC trans-fat ban will cost

Study links obesity to a virus

adenovirus-36

Law of diminishing returns

Canadian tobacco use

Global hate

Ban happy Ontario

Tempest in a coffee cup

Pizza not junk food

News is fuelling disorders

Obesity gene

Fat cell numbers 'set for life'

Obese advantage

Obesity is 'socially contagious'

Obesity can be a mental illness

Thin dreams

Its your fault

Signs of backfiring

A few extra pounds won't kill you

Children who stay up late at risk

Anti-smoking warnings

Smoking now a private vice

Single drink over the limit

Lock pupils up

You have mental health issues

Genes link stress, addictions

Chocolate not an addiction

Celebs more likely to deny addiction

Heart risks detected in overweight

Obesity linked to cancer in women

Information Knowledge

Information overload

Attention economy

NHS smokers, drinkers or obese

Cash grab unhealthy

Low-fat diet myth busted

Obese find effective help elusive

Virus causes weight gain

Scientists find fatness gene

Fat gene found

New York City bans science

Trans-fat myth

Calgary's new trans fat rules kick in

Food bans attack the poor

Recycle or go to hell

Seven new deadly sins

Junk food ad ban unrealistic

Junk food

Psss want’a buy some junk food

Clogged arteries clog your arteries

Dollars to doughnuts, you pay the tab

Woman too heavy

Connor to stay with family

One fat kid versus a army

What we're doing to young Connor

Obese boy could be taken away

Food ads carry health warnings

NY bans trans fats at restaurants

The dumbing down of society

MPs want to ban fat kids

Agency crippled by computer virus

Sweeps of human DNA

'More dangerous than smoking'

Tough new anti-smoking laws

Alberta smokers face new restrictions

Laser printers as bad as cigarette

Healthy people biggest burden

Drug testing candidates

Drug increases suicide risks

Hockey games are a health hazard

Woman waits 4 days for surgery

Drug-addicted babies

Broken finger set under the watchful eye of the BC gov't and media

Health care deficit surges to $4B

Slap sales tax on junk food

Why we worry about the wrong things

Recycling cash grab

It isn't really your money

Four big, fat myths

10 junk science claims of 2005

Medical myths

'Silent pandemic' blamed on toxins

Silent pandemic

Bitten by the legal bug

Campbell targets smoking, junk food

BC to ban smoking in public places

Junk the junk food tax

Medical Ass.wants tax on junk food

Lower blood-alcohol limits needed

Health Minister wants to cut smoking

Cookie cops' coup crumbles

Stores face tobacco crackdown

How about a law against hypocrisy?

Planners ask GVRD to discuss tolls

BC gov gets into social housing

Couple left 'squatting' in their home

VANCOUVER - When Selina Prevost and her husband returned home recently to find a notice tacked to their front door advising them Coquitlam city inspectors would return in 24 hours looking for a marijuana grow operation, they willingly let them in. (Vancouver Province)

Victimized by grow-op cops

Police pot search upsets homeowner

Court challenge

Feds recall BC database

BC government goes Big Brother

BC rolls out driver's licence with chip

Canada on way to brave new world

National ID card looms

Concerns about enhanced licences

Lawyer fights 'totalitarian' grow-op law

Pot law challenged as rights violation

Searches bend the law