Press Releases
List of our press releases, in reverse chronological order.
Civil Society groups highlight concerns with ‘deeply problematic’ Cybersecurity Bill C-26 ahead of Commons debate
Serious concerns around privacy, accountability, judicial due process, and digital rights set out in open letter to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.
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Bryan Short
Digital Rights Campaigner CANADA, Vancouver Time Zone: 8:33 am 1-888-441-2640 ext. 705 [email protected]New privacy legislation repeats past mistakes
Bill C-27 leaves the privacy of people in Canada at risk
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Matt Hatfield
Executive Director CANADA, Montreal Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 0 [email protected]Canada must take on the data economy
The wild west for third-party data brokers must come to an end.
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Matt Hatfield
Executive Director CANADA, Montreal Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 0 [email protected]Canada’s 2022 budget promises competition reform, commits to problematic news legislation
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Executive Director CANADA, Montreal Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 0 [email protected]The State of Privacy in Canada: No Transparency, No Accountability
Non-consensual sharing of location data between Telus and Canadian government shows desperate need for privacy law reform
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Matt Hatfield
Executive Director CANADA, Montreal Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 0 [email protected]24,000+ call on Congress to #StopFacebook from fueling far-right extremism by passing a federal data privacy law
Facebook’s algorithmic manipulation is fuelling the extremism that led to the January 6 attack. Data privacy is fundamental to disarming Facebook’s data weapon.
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Matthew Hatfield
Executive Director CANADA, Vancouver Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 1 [email protected]Throne speech doubles down on botched approach to tackling Big Tech
Government signals it will neglect its duty to address core Internet affordability and privacy reform issues.
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Matthew Hatfield
Executive Director CANADA, Vancouver Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 1 [email protected]OpenMedia calls for government to introduce improved privacy law reform on one year anniversary of failed bill
Canada is even further from increased privacy protections today than when C-11 was introduced a year ago.
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Matt Hatfield
Executive Director CANADA, Montreal Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 0 [email protected]PRESS EVENT: Bruce Schneier, Fight for the Future, EFF, and OpenMedia deliver more than 59K petition signatures opposing Apple’s spyware plan
Apple’s move has been roundly condemned by security experts, developers, and civil rights groups.
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Matthew Hatfield
Executive Director CANADA, Vancouver Time Zone: 8:33 am 1 (888) 441-2640 ext. 1 [email protected]‘Lie, Lie, Deny’: Oversight won’t change the culture at the RCMP
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada finds the RCMP’s use of facial recognition technology broke the law, but the RCMP is refusing to change its culture of deceit and denial
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