National Post-Privacy experts disagree with RCMP assertion that spyware is similar to wiretapping
Privacy experts say police and government use of “extremely intrusive” spyware needs to be tightly controlled, and the technology should be outlawed for the general Canadian public.
The director of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said spyware is “like a wiretap on steroids,” and requires more oversight and a much higher threshold for use.
oversight
noun
an omission or error due to carelessness:
My bank statement is full of oversights.
unintentional failure to notice or consider; lack of proper attention:
Owing to my oversight, the letter was sent unsigned.
supervision; watchful care:
a person responsible for the oversight of the organization.
OTHER WORDS FOR OVERSIGHT
Mistake, blunder, slip.
Lapse, neglect, inattention.
Management , direction, control; surveillance.
Which ones describes our evil overlords .gov…
SATANIC Perverted Evil is what describes our Entire Govt apparatus…. From the PMO Citadel, to the bathroom janitor.
NAZI Filth. PERIOD, Here, and pretty much EVERYWHERE throughout the Western Hemisphere / CommonWealth.
Buy the Best FARADY pouch you can and use it – ALWAYS.
Well, I guess universities can be good for something…
The whole objective is like what happened to Trump on Monday. Dear Leader is waging war on all of his political enemies and not loving him will become a criminal offence.
So the ethics committee voted 6-5 to order the RCMP to comply with their request for information about surveilling MPs. The party affiliation of the 5 who voted no I’m sure will be another one of life’s enduring mysteries.
Can’t we just affix a more meaningful label to the RCMP? Like the Liberal Party Praetorian Guard or something of that nature.
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Spyware delivers more information than the ankle bracelet they use to track convicts. Probably more than having a real policeman sitting right next to you 24/7, because the phone never forgets anything.
Nice that we all know they’re lying. Now we can watch them lie, and lie, and LIE, and then lie some more… while we pay them to do it.
That’s your money paying that guy right there, Canada. The one who is lying. Okay?
The real bombshell is the RCMP has been using spyware on MPs. Trudeau’s literally spying on opposition parties private communications.
He’s waiting for a Canuck Mar-a-Lago opportunity.
That’s what you get when you have a dictator who’s intellectually bankrupt. He has no idea on how to run the country properly and he can’t stand being challenged on that issue. Therefore, he makes anyone who can call him on the carpet a criminal in order to not only destroy them but to maintain power.
I just hope pp is not afraid to use all these new powers to crush libtards when he becomes pm. They’ll howl and bitch about it but go for their throats and start with all their fundraising that gets around the rules.
Is the shit stain back from holiday yet?
I’d bet a yrs salary, that this was ABSOLUTELY USED Against any and all Freedom Convoy folks as well as within Provinces (Alberta & Sask for one), used to spy on the Couts Protest as well as keeping an Eagle Eye on Alberta Pastors….along with SDA to boot.
RCMP: De-Facto Gestapo.
Tell me I’m Wrong..??
You’re not wrong. You’re bang-on! You have to assume that big brother is watching all of us all the time. This is the reality we are now all living in, unfortunately. There is no place to run, no place to hide. You can live a squeaky-clean lifestyle, never, and I mean NEVER having been in trouble with the law, and still find yourself cancelled from society if you even just say the wrong thing.
Which is why I am imploring SDA contributors and posters to please watch what they’re saying, especially on this forum. You can bet there’s some CSIS or RCMP rat watching over your shoulder.
BTW… Good afternoon, CSIS and RCMP. How was the coffee this morning? If it was a little weak, you can blame it all on the rationing thanks to all the supply chain shortages that’s caused by the crazy policies of your overlords, and I’m not talking about the Canadian government.
Dudley Do-Wrongs?
Well now that we know that the RCMP Gestapo spying on innocent Canadians is a dangerous precedent and “unconstitutional” ( I know we’re a rogue Post Nation State ) expect the lawless gestapo of the Jagderp/ Turdhole Party to ramp up their spying.
Watch out Cons, Jagderp Turdhole and their Gestapo are spying on everything you do and say.
The Cons are in on the Lib con…
Now, will the Gestapo comply or “lose” the evidence?
relax I predict we are about to “discover” that such spying is entirely lawful and ordered by executive command..
As one of the 72 super secret laws our Parasites have invoked since 2015..
And the only two parties who had the power to implement those 72 secret laws were the Libs and Cons…
Team Libs
————— Coin
Team Cons
One coin and the same team…
Trust them again and again that they will hold the other side of the coin accountable when they get back in power again…
Bahahahahahahahahahahaha….
Suckers…
The Lib Cons have each other’s backs not ever yours…
The Lib Cons control the coin of power in Canada and do you actually think they will ever give up freely without bloodshed…
If you’ve done nothing wrong then you shouldn’t have anything to worry about.
Famous last words.
“If you haven’t done anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about.”
“If you haven’t done anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about,” seems to be a answer response these days to concerns about loss of privacy and personal rights in an age of ever-expanding surveillance.
Needless to say, this is an absurd and shameful argument. Of course I have something to worry about. Everyone does.
To quote Bruce Scheier from a recent article:
Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, “If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” Watch someone long enough, and you’ll find something to arrest — or just blackmail — with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies — whoever they happen to be at the time.
Privacy is a fundamental human right, one which can not and must not be surrendered. The next time you here this statement, consider these responses:
Some of my favorites:
If I’m not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.
Because the government gets to define what’s wrong, and they keep changing the definition.
Because you might do something wrong with my information.
Mind if I make a video of you [making love to] your wife then?
So you trust the government completely?
Not just this administration, but all of them? You trusted Nixon?
Yeah…, isn’t that what Stalin used to say?
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
You get the idea.
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Privacy is a fundamental human right, one which can not and must not be surrendered.
I was reminded of that yesterday.
I’ve been looking for a new place to live now that my trips to and from Fort St. John are coming to an end. I went to one apartment complex and had a look around. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the amenities (the exercise room was a joke) plus there was no outdoor parking where I could leave my truck. (Why do landlords think everyone drives a pregnant roller skate?)
Towards the end of my visit, I was told, as part of the application process, that I had to provide proof of income….. such as a tax return. That was the deal-breaker for me. I informed the manager that my finances are private information and that only my stockbroker, my banker, and the government need to know anything about them. Apparently, the rental company demands it, so I thought that, if that’s the case, it didn’t need my money. G’bye.
Apparently, one needs to have a “minimum” income to live there. (Are there seniors who still don’t know how to draw up a budget?) Uh, no. I doubt that they’re concerned about how whether anyone could afford the accommodations. I’m pretty sure they wanted to know just how much to jack up the rent each year.
What surprises me is that people would be willing to release that sort of information. It’s going to be interesting to see if I’ll be able to find new accommodations with policies like that.
Visualize being successful and landing in the place you could only dream of…
Try it and let me know how it goes…
My landlord every year raise the rent to the max he can, my wife mistakenly wrote the cheques out with the old rent payment instead, I will eventually send him a e-transfer for the year to pay the difference we actually owe…he did not notice..
People who own homes are renters that’s where the property taxes comes in..
I pay for no repairs and heat, hydro including water are included.
In a one month notice I can freely go wherever I choose to go…
I did not want to ever be landlocked…
My investment are in hard things you need to use and eat…
With extras always extras for when the battering economy begins…
All the landlord needs to be concerned about is receiving regular payments from me. If that doesn’t work out, they can always evict me as, surely, they have lawyers they can call upon and there’s always the police to change locks. (That happened to a younger couple down the hall from me last year. He had gained a reputation for skipping out on payments.)
I was told yesterday what I “needed” for a minimum annual income. I found the figure laughable because I know I can get by with considerably less and still pay the required rent.
Seriously? Who trusts the RCMP?
The question is why would you not.. Everything they want to know is a click away.. If you think your “rights and freedoms” are going to make them take the long way home.. You are a fool..
IMO smartphones should be free..
IMO smartphones should be free..
Free as in no cost to the owner/user or free as in uncontaminated by such software?
If true, that’s resignation level malfeasance. If the Cons have proof of this, and can convince the other opposition parties that they have also been under surveillance (or, and this is quite a stretch in Canada, they can make the case that it’s bad in principle), then bring down the government and fight them on this issue. If the sheeple of certain large cities and regions want such a government, then we have a pretext for separation. Not that one was really required.