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The CCLA will appear before the Supreme Court to argue that the private, personal information in our communication devices must be protected by the Charter – regardless of whether they are owned personally, or provided through our workplaces. In R. v. Cole the Court will examine whether an individual whose work computer may be accessed by [...] The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is appearing before the Ontario legislature’s Standing Committee on Justice Policy to make submissions on Bill 34, the Security for Courts, Electricity Generating Facilities and Nuclear Facilities Act. The Bill contains the long-awaited repeal of the Public Works Protection Act and CCLA applauds the government’s commitment to passing targeted legislation [...] Between 2006 and 2009 about one third of Ontario Crown offices asked police to conduct background checks on potential jurors by searching confidential police databases. Often the information they obtained was used to inform the prosecution’s jury selections and was not disclosed to defence counsel. In a 2009 report the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner [...] Op-ed originally published by PostMedia News on February 16, 2012. Minister Toews has tabled the much vilified Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act, a bill that provides additional powers to law enforcement to obtain information from Internet providers, at times without warrant. The Bill is flawed because it makes the ISP providers agents of [...] Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow posted this interview on their blog under the headline “Canada’s bull-moose civil libertarian on Canada’s new domestic spying law“. We couldn’t think of a better way to introduce this interview, from TVO’s Search Engine with Jesse Brown. Listen: Alan Borovoy interviewed by Jesse Brown (Feb 14 2012) |
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