Libby Davies hosts a public forum about Internet surveillance. Watch live at 7 p.m. PST/10 p.m. EST.
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Video: Bill-C30: How to stop the bill and protect your privacy online. A public forum.
Libby Davies, Vancouver East MP, hosts a public forum in Vancouver about Bill C-30, the Conservative Bill that aims to violate our privacy on the internet. Find out what you can do to prevent the passage of the bill. Moderator: Libby Davies (NDP Member of Parliament, Vancouver East). Speakers: Jasbir Sandhu (NDP Critic for Public Safety), Lindsey Pinto and Glyn Lewis (Open Media.ca), Jim Sayre (President, VCN - Vancouver Community Network) and Michael Vonn (BC Liberties Association). Recorded and livestreamed on rabbletv by Jase Tanner March 21, 2012, at W2.
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Watch the livestream rebroadcast: There's still time to stop Bill C-30 on Internet surveillance
Libby Davies hosts a public forum in Vancouver about Bill C-30, the Conservative Bill that aims to violate our privacy. Livestreamed on March 21 at 7PM PST/10PM EST, watch to find out what you can do to the passage of the bill. Moderator: Libby Davies (NDP Member of Parliament, Vancouver East). Speakers: Jasbir Sandhu (NDP Critic for Public Safety), Sarah Beuhler (Open Media.ca), Jim Sayre (President, VCN - Vancouver Community Network) and Michael Vonn (BC Liberties Association). Details: http://rabble.ca/whatsup/theres-still-time-stop-bill-c-30-internet-surveillance
The threat of 'Big Brother' Internet monitoring in Canada
The concern over nations becoming "Big Brother" surveillance states is alive and well in Canada.
Canada, that bastion of civility, open-mindedness and personal rights?
Yes, unless you don't follow foreign affairs, our neighbour to the north has been under a conservative -- very conservative -- government for a bit of time now, with Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper serving as prime minister.
The most recent threat to personal privacy coming out of Ottawa is a bill that sounds frighteningly reminiscent of ones we've seen in the U.S.
The "Act to enact the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act and to amend the Criminal Code and other acts" would, among other abominable violations of civil liberties:
(Un)Lawful access: Experts line up against online spying
Sign the petition at: http://stopspying.ca
Send a message to your MP at: http://openmedia.ca/mp
Unlawful Access was produced in collaboration with The New Transparency: Surveillance & Social Sorting, and DigitallyMediatedSurveillance.ca. More information at: http://www.unLawfulAccess.net
