Didn't Winnipeg City Council just renew some kind of high school policing program, Aristotleded? Before hearing it was up for debate, I had no idea the school board had such a program.
Police State
Fri, 2020-10-09 19:17
#752
laine lowe
Tue, 2020-10-27 21:17
#753
Didn't Winnipeg City Council just renew some kind of high school policing program, Aristotleded? Before hearing it was up for debate, I had no idea the school board had such a program.
Sorry laine, I'm just seeing this question right now. I think what you're talking about is the school resource officer program, which has been running for a long time.
Wed, 2020-10-28 13:09
#754
Here's another incident in Calgary:
Staff Sgt. Gordon Macdonald, who was the commanding officer at the APU described Kafi as "flinching back."
Then, in a swift move, Dunn slams the handcuffed woman face-first onto the ground in what Macdonald described as a "judo-style throw."
Kafi's head can be seen bouncing off the concrete floor.
Kafi's mother, who had been sitting quietly in the gallery, watched the video of her daughter's head bouncing off the concrete floor and let out a guttural noise. She quickly left the courtroom.
Macdonald testified he not only witnessed the incident but also heard the unmistakable sound of Kafi's head hitting the ground.
"There's only one type of sound when somebody's bone hits the floor and that's what I heard," he said from the witness box.
Macdonald testified that he feared the worst for Kafi's condition and called paramedics.
Dunn backed off. Normally, the arresting officer accompanies an arrestee to the hospital, but Macdonald felt it wasn't appropriate for the constable to continue to be in Kafi's presence.
"I advised him that it was the worst use of force that I had seen," said Macdonald.
Macdonald said that when Kafi arrived, she was complaining about her arrest. He said she was belligerent though not threatening or aggressive.
Pollard asked the 30-year officer if he'd seen Kafi act in a way that would have justified Dunn's reaction.
"No," said Macdonald.
Thank you Sgt. Macdonald for telling the truth about what you saw on your shift. That is true public service, and is faithful to your duty to stop the bad guys even if those bad guys wear police crests. As Bill Maher said, if good cops hate bad cops so much then they should turn in the bad cops.
Mon, 2020-11-09 12:50
#755
A First Nations woman was knocked unconscious at an RCMP detachment in Thompson, Man., and despite the act being caught on video, no formal investigation was launched and the woman says she was bullied into withdrawing her complaint against the officers involved.
The video, which CBC News obtained through a court application, has one former police watchdog calling for a full probe, and has prompted a lawsuit alleging she was discriminated against because she is Indigenous. Garson is a member of Tataskweyak Cree Nation.
Genesta Garson was 19 years old when she was picked up by two community safety officers on Jan. 6, 2018 outside of the Northern Inn in Thompson, a city of about 13,000 in northern Manitoba, on the suspicion of being drunk.
She was supposed to spend the night sleeping it off on a cold cement bed in a holding cell.
Instead, she left in an ambulance after a safety officer punched her in the chin, knocking her unconscious.
...
After leaving hospital, Garson was charged with assaulting an officer. Gupta took her case pro bono and the charge was later stayed.
Gupta then helped her file a formal complaint against the RCMP with the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission in November 2018.
The complaint, which was obtained by CBC, says Gupta was to be the RCMP's formal contact throughout the process.
However, that didn't happen.
Instead, Garson and Gupta say several different RCMP officers came to Garson's home in Split Lake, 140 kilometres north of Thompson, asking her to sign a form withdrawing the complaint.
Garson says she felt bullied, pressured and wanted the police to leave her alone, so she signed.
"They kept coming to my house, and to where I worked here in Split Lake until I signed the paper," Garson said. "After that, they left me alone. I do not remember how many times they came to the house, I lost count."
Gupta said he was shocked when he got a letter from RCMP officials saying Garson had withdrawn the complaint.
"That I find the most appalling out of all of this," Gupta said.
"RCMP are aware that I'm counsel for Ms. Garson and yet try to circumvent that process by speaking to her on their own?"
Question for people who know more about the law than I do. If what the woman says is true and that officers pressured her to withdraw the complaint, could that not be considered a criminal act of intimidation?
Tue, 2020-11-10 20:36
#756
laine lowe
Wow, that definitely sounds like intimidation. Her whole treatment was horrific, racist and mysogiynist. That move to visit her in her home community to convince her to withdraw her complaint is the icing on an ugly sh*t cake.
Sat, 2020-11-28 01:33
#757
Yet another complaint from within:
In her complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Iranian-Canadian officer said she was punched by her partner at the time when she tried to step in during the March 2011 arrest. After reporting him, she said, she was passed over for promotions and left vulnerable to prolonged racist and sexist attacks from colleagues who called her a "rat."
CBC is referring to the woman by a pseudonym, "Darya," because she fears more backlash for speaking out.
"If you're not white — it doesn't matter if you're a citizen or you're an employee, you don't have any rights. It's systematic abuse," said the officer, who was hired by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) in 2009.
In an exclusive interview with the CBC's The Fifth Estate, Darya said she was branded a liar after reporting her fellow officer and subsequently put at risk when other members of the force abandoned her during volatile calls.
...
In her complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Iranian-Canadian officer said she was punched by her partner at the time when she tried to step in during the March 2011 arrest. After reporting him, she said, she was passed over for promotions and left vulnerable to prolonged racist and sexist attacks from colleagues who called her a "rat."
CBC is referring to the woman by a pseudonym, "Darya," because she fears more backlash for speaking out.
"If you're not white — it doesn't matter if you're a citizen or you're an employee, you don't have any rights. It's systematic abuse," said the officer, who was hired by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) in 2009.
In an exclusive interview with the CBC's The Fifth Estate, Darya said she was branded a liar after reporting her fellow officer and subsequently put at risk when other members of the force abandoned her during volatile calls.
...
This past July, another sexual harassment case before the tribunal concluded with a ruling in favour of the officer. The tribunal adjudicator found that Toronto police Const. Heather McWilliam, a drug investigator, was subjected to rampant sexual harassment that resulted in a "poisoned work environment."
At the end of a six-year process, McWilliam was awarded $85,000, and the the Toronto Police Services Board was ordered to develop new human rights policies and training programs. Since then, the TPS board said it's "working diligently" to implement the tribunal's order to provide sexual harassment training to all officers in her division.
In the three most recent human rights complaints reviewed by CBC, nearly 80 officers from four different divisions are accused of either participating in or turning a blind eye to harassment.
Seven TPS officers are currently suspended with pay, accused of sexual violence against women on the force or members of the public. Two of them have been charged with sexual assault.
But a decade of TPS disciplinary records obtained by CBC suggests that few disciplined officers face consequences.
It's pretty disturbing the allegations that Darya made against her colleagues.
Sat, 2020-11-28 09:30
#758
I've read numerous similar stories, and even heard some in person, from female police officers, and in general any police officer who tries to be honest about the horrendous abuse of power routinely exercised by almost all cops. The police culture is a disgustingly unfair and bigoted one, which is why the police need to be abolished and rebuilt from scratch. Unfortunately, as long as capital is in charge, this will never happen, because the oligarchs need thugs to protect their riches.
Thu, 2020-12-03 01:13
#759
An update on the case of the Nunavut Mountie caught on video dooring a suspect:
An RCMP officer in Nunavut “did not intentionally strike” an Inuk man with his truck’s door over the course of an arrest last June, according to external investigators with the Ottawa Police Service....
“The investigation has determined that the RCMP officer driving the vehicle did not intentionally strike the community member with the vehicle door – whereas the vehicle came to a sliding stop on a snow and ice covered track, the driver’s front tire went off the track, the vehicle dipped forward and the opened driver’s door swung forward and struck the community member,” the OPS wrote in a media release on Tuesday.
The Ottawa police concluded the incident “does not meet the threshold of a criminal offence” of assault or assault with a weapon “as the applied force was unintentional.”
But as someone else pointed out:
Benson Cowan, head of Nunavut Legal Aid, said the Ottawa police statement gives little information about a much larger story.
“Police occupy a place of public trust and the public has an interest in how they go about their jobs. We're owed an explanation when something happens. What we got was a conclusion. There's no transparency and no accountability,” Cowan said.
“We've all seen that video and we know that the police explanation doesn't explain everything we see in that video.”
Cowan said even if people accept the truck door hitting the man was an accident, it is troubling to say the arrest was lawful.
“On what basis was it justified that five police officers be involved in the takedown of this man?”
Cowan said Ottawa police also don't explain why the RCMP acted so swiftly to arrest a man who was never charged.
“Why on earth, if it was public intoxication, would you drive so close and put someone at risk?”
Wed, 2020-12-30 03:00
#760
Meet one of Winnipeg's finest:
Patrol Sgt. Kevin Smith has faced at least one Law Enforcement Review Agency complaint, and was also involved in a case where a man was awarded $13,500, after he filed a lawsuit saying Smith illegally searched his bag and another officer assaulted him during a traffic stop.The 2018 soccer game allegation comes from a complaint filed by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba against Smith, stating that as assistant coach of a girls' soccer team, he used his position as a police officer to threaten IRCOM's coach and players.
The complaint to the Winnipeg Youth Soccer Association alleges Smith yelled, "I am a Winnipeg police officer, you should watch out buddy, you and your girls," to the Ethiopian-born IRCOM coach, after a locker-room disagreement broke out between the two under-18 teams.
...
Alex Reid told CBC News that because of his time as an executive assistant at city hall, he knew enough to complain to LERA when he had confrontation with Smith, following a joke Reid made about Smith's parking job.
...
Reid said he was held for almost an hour by Smith, who chased him down after he insulted the officer's parking job because his patrol car was blocking the entrance to his home.
Smith was aggressive and ordered him into his home to get his identification, Reid said.
When he used the time to call a lawyer friend and kept him on the line when he walked out, Smith got angry, hung up the cordless phone and said he was going to write up a ticket.
Reid said he was given a "bogus ticket" for failing to signal right when meeting a moving vehicle. He documented the entire incident in a blog that was later deleted, but can still be found through archival searches.
"He was acting aggressive and his face was red and I had several times asked him to calm down … because he was constantly escalating, escalating," Reid said. "And I just thought, what's wrong with this guy?"
He said the ticket was thrown out after he fought it in court.
He filed a LERA complaint. Five years later, he called the agency to follow up, and was told it was determined that Smith wasn't guilty of any offence and the case had been closed.
Smith was also named in a 2016 lawsuit involving a Winnipeg man who alleged he was assaulted and his bag was illegally searched during a routine traffic stop.
Rahim Dostmohamed alleged the officers unlawfully searched his bag and slammed his face into the side of his car, causing him to bleed from his nose and mouth for days, when he was pulled from his vehicle in January 2015.
The suit alleged that a different officer assaulted Dostmohamed, while Smith searched his bag without justification, breaching his Charter rights.
Mon, 2021-03-01 13:13
#761
Canada's Spy Agency Wants More Power.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-act-vigneault-1.5911065
"...The country's spy chief is intensifying his campaign for new powers and sounding the alarm about the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's ability to keep tabs on hostile foreign states. But civil liberties advocates are urging Parliament to be skeptical..."
This follows similar proto-fascist American national security trends. Better email your MP to say NO loudly and clearly because not only do CSE/CSIS have more than enough powers already, but ultimately it's not China or Russia they wish to target more, it's you...
Sat, 2021-05-15 06:10
#762
Vancouver police apologize for wrongly handcuffing and detaining retired black judge
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-black-judge-arrest-1....
"Selwyn Romilly, 81, was mistaken for an assault suspect estimated to be 40-50 years old."
Close enough?
Sat, 2021-05-15 21:24
#763
laine lowe
Damn, it was shocking to hear Justice Romilly interviewed. He was actaully much calmer than I would be under the circumstances.
Sun, 2021-05-16 01:41
#764
Perhaps because he knew the outrageous incident happening to him was noteworthy enough on its face. Had it been just a regular old black dude we may not have heard about it. Vancouver PD has always had racist thuggish tendencies, but they tend not to practice their dark arts upon retired Supreme Court judges.
Sat, 2021-08-07 16:53
#765
Apple 2015 - Apple 2021
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1423482640791969793
"Apple 2015: We locked the FBI out of a dead terrorist's phone to protect your privacy. 2021: We compare your photo-roll and iCloud with a government blacklist and call the cops about it..."
But continue doing nothing about growing police state powers. After all, you've got nothing to hide, and 'liberals/democrats' are in charge right?
Sun, 2021-08-08 21:22
#766
From Winnipeg to Tokyo: Sports capitalism and the surveillance state
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/from-winnipeg-to-tokyo-sport...
"Since 9/11, security at and around sports venues has been on the upswing with little oversight, affording greater power and autonomy to both private security firms and police forces, including invasive forms of securitizing such as facial recognition technology, which was recommended by the Winnipeg Police in their 2019 safety report.
The increasing and conspicuous valorization of police by sports teams is a rising trend across North America. Sports have become one of the primary facilitators allowing police and intelligence sercices to insert themselves more deeply into everyday life.
The Olympics have historically been a testing ground for international security collaboration for decades, concurrent with increasing displacement. The confluence of municipal and state violence at Olympic Games provides a framework by which sports facilitates the intrusion of harmful surveillance and authoritarian law enforcement into our everday lives...."
Thu, 2021-09-23 08:39
#767
Shadow Dragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software that Can Watch Your Every Move
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/21/surveillance-social-media-police-mic...
"The tool is the product of a growing industry whose work is usually kept from the public and utilized by police. 'What used to take us 2 months in a background check or an investigation is now taking between 5 to 15 minutes.' ShadowDragon seems to strive toward total information awareness..."
Tue, 2021-11-02 11:00
#768
Philadelphia Bans Cops from Stopping Drivers for Low-Level Traffic Violations
Philadelphia has become the first major U.S. city to ban police from stopping cars for low-level traffic violations in an effort to reduce dangerous interactions between racist police officers and motorists of color. Police data from 2018 and 2019 showed Black drivers represent 72% of traffic stops in Philadelphia, even though Black residents only make up 42% of the city’s population.
A recent study by The New York Times found police officers across the U.S. have killed over 400 drivers or passengers who were not armed with a deadly weapon in the past five years. Only five of those officers have been convicted of crimes.
Tue, 2021-11-02 14:56
#769
Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in October 2021
Canadian police continued their horrific violence throughout the month of October, with a dozen people killed by police or left dead through police actions. This matched September as the most deadly month for police violence in Canada. There were 11 police-involved deaths in July.
To this point in 2021, at least 87 people have been killed by Canadian police or died through police actions. This includes at least nine people killed in August, six deaths through police interactions in June, 10 in May, six in April, and five in March. There were at least nine police-involved deaths in February and at least seven in January. With two months left in the year, 2021 has already seen more police-involved deaths than have been reported publicly for many recent full calendar years, which have generally seen around 60 plus police-involved deaths per year.
In October, four people died in police custody. Two people were shot and killed. At least one person died after a taser deployment. At least six people in crisis died during police actions in which it is alleged they took their own lives with police present.
Toronto Police Service officers were involved in three deaths. RCMP were involved in two deaths. Two people died in police custody in Saskatchewan......
Thu, 2022-01-13 13:00
#770
Canadian police expanding surveillance powers via new digital “operations centres”
Documents reveal municipal police establishing surveillance centres as “force multiplier” for law enforcement
Canadian police have been establishing municipal surveillance centres to support law enforcement, deploying digital technologies that expand surveillance powers with the help of major US corporations, according to government documents seen by The Breach.
Working around-the-clock in special rooms or wings of police stations, these so-called “real-time operations centres” are the cornerstone of a shift to confront what police call the “new challenges” of a digital age.
They are intended to provide “virtual backup” for police officers in any situation, supplying them with information drawn from deep social media monitoring, private and public closed-circuit televisions (CCTV), open-ended data collection, and algorithmic mining.
Over the last 10 years, the surveillance centres have been quietly set up within police forces from Halifax to Vancouver, with no public debate about their functions, corporate relationships, or impacts.
Described by police as “force-multipliers,” they are already being used to monitor demonstrations. And analysts and experts are warning that the reliance on digital surveillance tools, and databases filled with details drawn from practices like carding, risk “supercharging” discriminatory and racist patterns of policing when delivered to officers in real-time.
According to government documents, the centres are modeled after fusion centres created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security post-9/11. The U.S. fusion centres, which began with a focus on combatting terrorism but later expanded to criminal and political activity, have been criticized for indiscriminate surveillance and civil rights violations.....
Thu, 2022-01-13 15:41
#771
It is good to know that our brave democratically elected politicians from all parties made sure the evil Chinese could not spy on us. Maybe Huawei is not compatible with our "freedom" security systems.
Tue, 2022-01-18 18:54
#772
B.C. Civil Liberties Association says RCMP complaints process ‘should improve’ after court ruling
quote:
Gagne says the Mounties waited a full three years to assign an officer to the matter, after which it took the commissioner only a few months to issue a five-page response to the interim report.
“In my view, a three-and-a-half-year delay is certainly not a reasonable interpretation of the ‘as soon as feasible’ in the Act,” Gagne says in her decision. “Nor does it mean whenever resources become available.”
Gagne says the requirement means the commissioner should have up to six months to reply to an interim report unless there are exceptional circumstances. It would be up to the commissioner to argue more time is needed, Gagne adds.
The time frame is in keeping with a memorandum of understanding signed in December 2019 by the complaints commission and the RCMP, which set a six-month target for responses.
Fri, 2022-07-01 12:50
#773
Canada's National Police Force Admits Use of Spyware to Hack Phones
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/29/canada-national-police-spyware-...
"In a 'remarkable' disclosure, Canada's national police force has described for the first time how it uses spyware to infiltrate mobile devices and collect data, including by remotely turning on the camera and microphone of a suspect's phone or laptop.
The RCMP says it uses such tools in the most serious cases, when less invasive techniques are unsuccessful. But until now, the force has not been open about its ability to employ malware to hack phones and other devices, despite..."
Give the propensity of police to lie almost automatically in such sensitive matters, we should assume these intrusive practices are much more widely used than they admit. And as Canadians are notorious for not attending to such abuses - 'I've got nothing to hide' etc - with opposition parties much the same or even aware of them - it's likely these secret surveillance practices will only proliferate.
Wed, 2022-08-10 11:08
#774
Canada's Former Privacy Watchdog 'Surprised' by RCMP Spyware Program
https://globalnews.ca/9047721/former-privacy-watchdog-surprised-rcmp-spy...
"Canada's former privacy commissioner says he was 'surprised' to learn the RCMP had for years used intrusive spyware technology to monitor suspects.
Ron Deibert, the director of the Citizens Lab at the University of Toronto and an expert in surveillance technology, said comparing this type of spyware to traditional wiretaps is like comparing nuclear weapons to traditional armaments."
Oh please. If 'surprised' obviously not much of a 'watchdog'. Notice too how Israeli provenance of the Pegasus spyware is effectively disappeared by Global.
Fri, 2022-09-30 17:42
#775
RCMP's Use of Facial Recognition Extends Well Beyond Clearview AI
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/30/rcmps-facial-recognition-clearv...
"Canada's national police force, which was heavily criticized for using ClearVIew AI software, has signed contracts to use multiple facial recognition tools..."
Thu, 2022-12-08 14:46
#776
Anomaly Six: Private Spying Firm Targets Global Population with Illegal Spyware
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/06/files-anomaly-6-firm-spyware/
"The Grayzone can reveal that it's not just US citizens, but the world's entire population in the firing line of Anomaly 6's unblinking eye. And the company is secretly selling its hyper-sensitive wares to a number of foreign governments, militaries and security and intelligence services..."
American technology is a gift that keeps on giving.
Mon, 2023-01-09 09:01
#777
Thread: The Twitter Files
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372352872783872
"How Twitter let the intelligence community in."
Sat, 2023-05-13 09:48
#778
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook & Rosa Addario (podcast)
https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/gorilla-radio-with-chris-c...
"A generation in to the communications revolution began by the internet, governments around the world are busy devising ways to limit, throttle, or eradicate entirely the ability of the citizenry to freely shape their opinions or express political dissent. And Canada is no exception.
Last week, Bill C-11 received ratification in the Senate, despite the government rejecting crucial amendment proposals put forward by that body.
Rose Addario is a Canadian telecommunications technology researcher. She's currently Communications Manager at OpenMedia, a quote 'community-driven organization working to keep the internet open, affordable and surveillance-free.
Rosa Addario and what Bill C-11 portends for Canadians' freedom to read, write and speak online."
Sat, 2023-05-13 10:06
#779
Foreign Influence Registry Update
https://www.ceasefire.ca/the-foreign-influence-registry-could-fail-a-cha...
"We first considered the potential dangers of a foreign influence transparency registry for Canada in our blog post of 21 April. Our concerns have only increased since then.
The past decade has witnessed a rise in authoritarianism and tightening space for civil society worldwide. Foreign agent laws have been a key part of that trend, with governments weaponizing both their over-breadth and ambiguity to target civil society and dissent.
Quite aside from its grave effects on civil society groups, Canada's proposed registry has a potentially chilling effect on the freedom of expression of all Canadians..."
Thu, 2023-06-08 21:39
#780
System Update #93, with Glenn Greenwald
https://rumble.com/v2sgyx2-snowden-revelations-10-year-anniversary-glenn...
"Glenn Greenwald speaks with Snowden and Lara Poitras on the past, present and future of their historic reporting."
System Update #95 with Glenn Greenwald
https://rumble.com/v2sy800-system-update-show-95.html
Assange loses appeal - US extradition dangerously close. Plus Aaron Mate on new Twitter files re: FBI/Ukrainian intelligence collaboration on Twitter accounts.
Fri, 2023-06-30 16:12
#781
Canada Cyberspy Agency Blocked Trillions of 'Malicious Actions' Against Feds Last Year
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-s-cyber-agency-conducting-more-fo...
"According to CSE's annual report released Thursday, the agency's automated defences protected the federal government from 2.3 trillion 'malicious actions,' an average of 6.3 billion a day.
The uptick in active operations comes after a federal budget boost of $273.7 million meant to bolster CSE's capabilities...
'We must be clear-eyed about the threats we face, and we must work with all stakeholders, including partners around the world to defend our common interests,' the minister [Anand] said."
'We stand on guard for thee!'
Mon, 2023-07-17 11:16
#782
Sources Say Justin Trudeau Wants To Transform the RCMP. Will He Turn The Mounties into Canada's Version of FBI Agents?
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2023/07/17/sources-say-justin-trudeau-...
"The Royal Canadian Mounted Police could one day transform into a federal police agency that operates more like the FBI under an ambitious but controversial concept that has gained new traction in the nation's capital, the Star has learned..."
US-style 'friendly fascism' develops apace, hastened by an increasingly collaborationist Canadian liberal-left.
Fri, 2023-07-28 17:11
#783
Trudeau is Striking a New National Security Council, But What Will It Do?
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/new-cabinet-national-security-council-wi...
"We know there have been real challenges increasingly from foreign states who want to destabilize our democracies, from internal actors who are trying to sow chaos..."
Canada's 'friendly fascism' proceeding apace.
Sun, 2023-08-06 19:10
#784
'Swamp Monsters'
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1688209586426109952
"On demands from the bipartisan DC establishment that the post-9/11 mass surveillance powers of the NSA and FBI be renewed by Congress yet again without any reforms, safeguards or limits."
Wed, 2023-08-09 07:38
#785
Digital Dissidents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDq4rCdQ16U
A documentary on our police-state surveillance society - those who have exposed it and those who submit.
Thu, 2023-08-10 00:12
#786
Is this kind of surveillance being done in China? Is it as bad or worse there?
Thu, 2023-08-10 21:08
#787
What about, what about, oh, oh, what about.Is this kind of surveillance being done in China? Is it as bad or worse there?
For decades China has been using almost as many cameras in Beijing as they do in London. My understanding is that facial recognition is everywhere in China and if you register you can use the technology to pay for public services like the Metro. The Chinese government has put out draft policies to cover how private businesses using the technology are to be regulated.
Thu, 2023-08-10 21:15
#788
In China the state solicits the public's opinion's on draft regulations. It is one of the reasons that the vast majority of the Chinese population support their government. They have politicians dedicated to trying to solve problems not dedicated to smearing their opponents to gain political power, to implement half baked policies based on partisan objectives.
China on Tuesday launched a nationwide initiative to solicit public opinions on draft regulations specifically targeting facial recognition technology, marking the first time that the country has sought to establish comprehensive guidelines for the use of the technology at a national level.
Chinese insiders stated that while facial recognition technology offers convenience and efficiency, concerns have been raised regarding its potential misuse and infringement on individual privacy. These regulations are timely and urgently needed to strike a balance between promoting the development of facial recognition technology and safeguarding privacy.
While affirming the regulations are expected to be a breakthrough for the country in standardizing the protection of personal privacy and national security as AI and other hi-technology continue rapidly developing, they pointed out that the draft needs to be specific and improved as some of its clauses are not practical enough or are too broad.
The draft regulations were released by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). According to the CAC, the public consultation period for these regulations will last for one month, during which individuals and organizations are encouraged to provide feedback and suggestions.
...
The regulations also address concerns over the potential abuse of facial recognition technology.
Hotels, banks, railway stations, airports, sports venues, exhibition halls, museums, art galleries, libraries and other business venues may not force, mislead and coerce individuals to accept facial recognition technology to verify their personal identity, unless otherwise stipulated by law or administrative regulations.
Image acquisition and personal identification equipment shall not be installed in hotel rooms, public bathrooms, fitting rooms, toilets and other places where people's privacy may be infringed upon.
Except when legal conditions permit or individual consent has been obtained, users of facial recognition technology may not save original images, pictures or videos of faces.
Qin told the Global Times on Tuesday that the draft comes as facial recognition technology has become increasingly prevalent in sectors including public security, finance and transportation.
With the integration and development of network information technology and biometrics, every country, in order to protect its national security and the safety of its people, will strengthen protection measures and improve relevant laws and regulations, Qin said.
"This is what any responsible government should do for the sake of its citizens' sense of gain, happiness and security, and the Chinese government is one of the responsible national authorities in the international community," Qin noted, in response to some aggressive media outlets that have been hyping slanderous reports that "Beijing uses the facial recognition technology to monitor its people."
Thu, 2023-11-30 02:18
#789
Spyware Being Used By 13 Federal Departments Documents Show
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-canada-department-privacy-...
"Tools capable of extracting personal data from phones or computers are being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, according to contracts obtained under access to information legislation and shared with Radio Canada.
Evan Light, associate professor of communications at York University's Glendon campus in Toronto and an expert in privacy and surveillance technology said he's shocked by the widespread use of such software within the federal government..."
Rule by Nazi-clappers.
Sun, 2023-12-03 01:39
#790
Claims of Toxic Workplace At CSIS Absolutely 'Devastating': Trudeau Says
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2023/11/30/claims-of-toxic-workplace-a...
"...One CSIS officer said she was raped nine times by a senior colleague while in surveillance vehicles in 2019 and 2020, while another said she was sexually assaulted in 2021 by the same man.
The women said they unsuccessfully warned their bosses that the man needed to be kept away from young women, and were subsequently failed by an internal complaints process.
Trudeau, who was in Ajax, Ont, for a separate announcement, said the allegations are of 'deep, deep concern'. Trudeau said his government has taken sexual allegations 'incredibly seriously' since the start.
'And I can assure you that the minister and our entire government is following up directly on these issues..."
Sun, 2023-12-03 06:09
#791
Trudeau said his government has taken sexual allegations 'incredibly seriously' since the start.
Unless he's the subject of them, of course.