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CCLA in Supreme Court to advocate for constitutional protection for employees’ private information

Abby Deshman — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:37:57 +0000

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 [...]

CCLA welcomes repeal of abusive G20 statute but remains concerned about proposed courthouse security measures

Abby Deshman — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:31:08 +0000

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 [...]

CCLA to appear before Supreme Court in jury-vetting cases

Abby Deshman — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:41:07 +0000

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: Warrants are democratic instruments — Let’s keep them

Communications — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:25 +0000

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 [...]

An interview with Alan Borovoy on the new cybersurveillance bill (podcast)

Communications — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:18:20 +0000

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)

Show Some Love For Online Privacy!

Communications — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:44:51 +0000

Show some love for online privacy – Send Vic Toews a Valentine

The writing is on the wall (or in this case perhaps it’s the homepage) – the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act is on the federal government’s Order Paper, and according to media reports, will be introduced in Parliament today.

Although we [...]

CCLA appears before Ontario Court of Appeal to protect internet privacy

Abby Deshman — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:36:32 +0000

CCLA counsel appeared before the Ontario Court of Appeal in two cases, R. v. Cuttell and R. v. Ward, to argue that Canadians have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their anonymous internet activity. Specifically, CCLA advocated that under the Charter police are generally required to obtain a warrant before they can access private subscriber [...]

Press Release: CCLA Reacts To Canada-U.S. Border Deal Statement; Concerned About Implications For Privacy Rights

Communications — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:53:54 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 5, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE