Canada

On this international Data Privacy Day, and after a year of severe abuses, it is worth reflecting on why it is essential to protect privacy.   Privacy is often cast as an abstract or undervalued concept associated with a desire to keep secret certain aspects of our activities or our…

The Canadian government’s Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (“CCCS”) has released Baseline cybersecurity controls for small and medium organizations in an effort to help small and medium-sized businesses improve their cybersecurity practices and their overall resiliency to cybersecurity threats. Small and medium-sized businesses face a range of cyber threats in the form…

The RCMP has been quietly running an operation monitoring individuals’ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media activity for at least two years, The Tyee has learned. The existence of Project Wide Awake has never been reported. And The Tyee investigation revealed that the RCMP has moved from a “reactive”…

In June 2018, more than 400,000 people protested the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border. The following month saw a host of demonstrations in New York City on issues including racism and xenophobia, the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the National Rifle Association. Given the ease…