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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Should we draft and circulate a statement?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David Farber via ip [mailto:ip@listbox.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> ip<br><b>Subject:</b> [IP] [ourprivacy-outreach] Breaking - CSE revealed to be running global mass surveillance program<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> David Christopher <<a href="mailto:david@openmedia.ca">david@openmedia.ca</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>Date:</b> January 28, 2015 5:46:09 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ourprivacy-outreach@lists.ourprivacy.ca">ourprivacy-outreach@lists.ourprivacy.ca</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[ourprivacy-outreach] Breaking - CSE revealed to be running global mass surveillance program</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:ourprivacy-outreach@lists.ourprivacy.ca">ourprivacy-outreach@lists.ourprivacy.ca</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Big news this morning - CSE (formerly CSEC) is revealed as running a massive global surveillance program spying on over 10 million downloads a day. Canadian IP addresses are among their targets, and the IP addresses of targets are being shared with UK and US spy agency databases.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>More here from CBC: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And here from <i>The Intercept</i>: <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/">https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>OpenMedia's response is here: <a href="https://openmedia.ca/news/breaking-spy-agency-cse-monitoring-our-private-online-activities-massive-scale-and-sharing-sensitive">https://openmedia.ca/news/breaking-spy-agency-cse-monitoring-our-private-online-activities-massive-scale-and-sharing-sensitive</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This should help us raise the profile of this debate here in Canada. It's the first solid evidence of Canadian mass surveillance, and also <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/data-collection-program-not-targeting-canadians-mackay-1.1319096">runs directly counter</a> to what Peter MacKay told Parliament when he was Defence Minister responsible for CSEC in 2013, at a time when this program was operational. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We'll likely have more on this as the day develops.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>David<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>David Christopher<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Communications Manager, <a href="http://openmedia.ca/" target="_blank">OpenMedia.ca</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(778) 232 1858<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:david@openmedia.ca" target="_blank">david@openmedia.ca</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For Immediate Release </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Breaking - Spy agency CSE is monitoring our private online activities on a massive scale and sharing sensitive data with other governments</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Canadian spy agency has been caught monitoring over 100 popular file-storage websites, spying on millions of downloads a day, with Canadian Internet addresses among the targets.</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>January 28, 2015 – </span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Canadian spy agency CSE (Communications Security Establishment) is indiscriminately monitoring the private online activities of millions of Internet users, including Canadians. According to </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120" target="_blank"><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CBC News</span></i></a></span><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/" target="_blank"><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Intercept</span></i></a></span><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, </span></i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CSE monitored over 100 popular file hosting websites, including </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://www.rapidshare.com/home" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>RapidShare</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SendSpace</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, spying on millions of downloads a day. They also collected millions of IP addresses of individual users, with a number of Canadian Internet addresses among the targets. </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Findings from the program are collected and shared with foreign spy agencies. All of this activity has been undertaken without users’ knowledge or consent. The program, named LEVITATION, dates back to at least 2012, while Peter MacKay was the Defence Minister responsible for CSE. The news breaks as MacKay, now Justice Minister, prepares to announce </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-counterterrorism-bill-to-override-certain-privacy-limits-1.2901096" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>new measures to undermine Canadians’ privacy</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> in legislation expected to be unveiled on Friday.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“CSE is clearly spying on the private online activities of millions of innocent people, including Canadians, despite repeated government assurances to the contrary”, said <a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a> communications manager <b>David Christopher. </b>“Law-abiding Internet users who use popular file hosting services are now finding themselves under the government’s microscope.”</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Christopher continued: “Given that Canadian IP addresses are among the targets, this amounts to spying on the private information of innocent Canadians, at any time, without a warrant. This alarming development underlines the need for robust action to rein in CSE’s reckless and out of control spying activities. When will the government finally take responsibility and come clean to taxpayers about what’s being done in their name?”</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Intercept</span></i><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>says</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> the program is clear evidence that the “Canadian government has launched its own globe spanning Internet mass surveillance system.” Canada’s government has </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/03/harpers-top-security-advisor-denies-illegal-eavesdropping-of-canadian-travelers-using-airport-wi-fi/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>long denied</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> that CSE spies on Canadians. In June 2013, over a year after the spying program exposed this morning went into effect, Peter MacKay </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/data-collection-program-not-targeting-canadians-mackay-1.1319096" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>reassured the House of Commons</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> that CSE is “prohibited” from spying on Canadians. That same day he </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/06/10/tories_deny_canadian_spy_agencies_are_targeting_canadians.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>told the Toronto Star</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> that “We don’t target Canadians, okay?”. At the time, MacKay was the minister responsible for </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/data-collection-program-got-green-light-from-mackay-in-2011/article12444909/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>authorizing</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> CSE activities, which then included LEVIATHAN.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Today’s news is the latest in a long string of revelations about how CSE spying has grown secretive, expensive, and out-of-control. These include how CSE </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://openmedia.ca/news/thousands-innocent-canadian-air-travellers-monitored-and-spied-government-full-independent-inquiry-u" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>spied on innocent Canadian air travellers</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://openmedia.ca/news/new-snowden-documents-reveal-canadian-government-partnered-illegal-spying-canadian-soil" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>facilitated a massive U.S. spy operation</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> on Canadian soil, </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://openmedia.ca/node/90032" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>monitored important Canadian trading partners</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> at the behest of the U.S. NSA, and even </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://openmedia.ca/blog/revealed-canada%E2%80%99s-ultra-secretive-spy-agency-csec-spied-brazil%E2%80%99s-mining-and-energy-industry" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>spied on the private communications</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> of Brazil’s energy ministry. </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More about CSE spying can be found in this PSA </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK4zY2IVhqk" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>video</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://openmedia.ca/sites/openmedia.ca/files/Metadata_Infographic_CTA_CSEC.png" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>infographic</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> OpenMedia put together with the help of privacy experts. </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Canadians are speaking out by joining the </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://ourprivacy.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Protect our Privacy Coalition</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, which now includes over 65 organizations and 40,000 Canadians from across the political spectrum. Canadians can join the coalition at </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://ourprivacy.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>OurPrivacy.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About <a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a></span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a> is an award-winning community-based organization that safeguards the possibilities of the open Internet. We work toward informed and participatory digital policy by engaging hundreds of thousands of people in protecting our online rights</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Through campaigns such as </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://stopthemeter.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>StopTheMeter.ca</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://stopspying.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>StopSpying.ca</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, <a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a> has engaged over half-a-million Canadians, and has influenced public policy and federal law.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About <a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a>’s privacy campaign</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a> led the successful </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://stopspying.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>StopSpying.ca</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> campaign that forced the government to back down on its plans to introduce a costly, invasive, and warrantless online spying law (Bill C-30). Nearly 150,000 Canadians took part in the campaign. To learn more, </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://openmedia.ca/sites/openmedia.ca/files/infographic_stopspying.jpg" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>see this infographic</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Last October, <a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a> joined with over 60 major organizations and over a dozen academic experts to form the </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://ourprivacy.ca/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Protect Our Privacy Coalition</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, which is the largest pro-privacy coalition in Canadian history. The Coalition is calling for effective legal measures to protect the privacy of every resident of Canada against intrusion by government entities.</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a> and the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) are </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://openmedia.ca/csec" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>working together</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> to put a stop to illegal government surveillance against law-abiding Canadians. <a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a> has launched a </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://openmedia.ca/csec" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>national campaign</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> encouraging Canadians to support a BCCLA legal action which aims to stop illegal spying by <span style='background:#FEFEFE'>challenging the constitutionality of the government’s warrantless collection of data on Canadians’ everyday Internet use.</span></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-30-</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>David Christopher</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Communications Manager, <a href="http://openmedia.ca/">OpenMedia.ca</a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="tel:1-778-232-1858" target="_blank">1-778-232-1858</a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="mailto:david@openmedia.ca" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>david@openmedia.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More Information</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>OpenMedia is crowdsourcing policy recommendation to boost privacy safeguards at <a href="https://openmedia.org/PrivacyPlan" target="_blank">https://OpenMedia.org/PrivacyPlan</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14233/index.do" target="_blank">Supreme Court of Canada R v. Spencer ruling</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://soundcloud.com/openmedia-ca/tell-peter-mackay-to-withdraw-bill-c-13" target="_blank">OpenMedia’s radio ad</a> for Peter MacKay’s Central Nova riding<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hard-hitting video highlights how Bill C-13 would give immunity to telecom providers who hand over your information without a warrant. <a href="https://openmedia.ca/news/hard-hitting-video-released-highlights-how-peter-mackay%E2%80%99s-online-spying-legislation-would-let-range" target="_blank">Source</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bill C-13 would let authorities obtain private information without a warrant. Source: <a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/7006/125/" target="_blank">Michael Geist</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Supposed “cyberbullying” legislation will erode the privacy of Canadians. Source: <a href="https://openmedia.ca/news/openmediaca-concerned-%E2%80%9Ccyberbullying%E2%80%9D-legislation-will-unnecessarily-erode-privacy-law-abiding-canad" target="_blank">OpenMedia.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Canada's Lawful Access Bill Appears to Have Contained a Provision to Enable PRISM-Style Surveillance Source: <a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6920/125/" target="_blank">Michael Geist</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lawful Access back on the agenda this Fall? - <a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6939/84/" target="_blank">Michael Geist.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Data breach protocols deficient in 9 federal departments, watchdog finds. - [Source: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/data-breach-protocols-deficient-in-9-federal-departments-watchdog-finds-1.1341017" target="_blank">CBC News</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Internet Law expert Michael Geist on <a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6869/125/" target="_blank">why Canadians should be concerned about government spying</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/canadians-need-proper-debate-about-monitoring-of-phone-and-internet/article12445818/" target="_blank">this article</a>, The Globe and Mail describes the revelations about Canadian government spying as “disturbing and unacceptable”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/raw-documents-canadas-top-secret-data-mining-program/article12446852/" target="_blank">document</a>, obtained by The Globe through Access to Information, shows how Minister MacKay authorized a top secret program to data-mine global ‘metadata’ in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=":251"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:4.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'><a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now" title="Go to archives for ip"><span style='color:#669933;text-decoration:none'>Archives</span></a> <a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/22720195-c2c7cbd3" title="RSS feed for ip"><span style='color:#669933;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpg"></span></a>| <a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22720195&id_secret=22720195-8fdd4308" title=""><span style='color:#669933;text-decoration:none'>Modify</span></a> Your Subscription | <a href="https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=22720195&id_secret=22720195-97c5b007&post_id=20150128124255:1557C4F4-A715-11E4-992E-93D94324B258" title=""><span style='color:#669933;text-decoration:none'>Unsubscribe Now</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><a href="http://www.listbox.com"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.png"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>