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Transparency reporting in Canada: still opaque?
telecom | 07/31/2017 4:15 pm EDT
Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal information, the current landscape may be as good as it gets for transparency reporting in Canada, a privacy expert says.
As of Monday, only two of the country’s...
Privacy improvements in Bill C-59, but some concerns remain: experts
telecom | 06/22/2017 5:16 pm EDT
In their initial impressions of the government’s biggest attempt to reform national security legislation in decades, privacy experts said they have some worries about the...
Spy agency monitors file downloads: report
telecom | 01/28/2015 3:22 pm EST
Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is collecting data on the downloads of millions of people as part of its efforts to fight terrorism, according to reports from CBC News and U.S. news website The...
Germany cancels Verizon contract amid spy concerns: report
telecom | 06/27/2014 3:43 pm EDT
The German government has cancelled a contract with U.S. communications giant Verizon Communications Inc. amid worries over spying by the U.S. government, Bloomberg reported Friday. The article said...