Public Safety committee  I don't believe that OpenMedia has the same power and influence as the Canadian government.

Public Safety committee  Although I appreciate that.

Public Safety committee  I think one of our concerns is that it's unclear what publicly available means. We would love to have that addressed through the amendments to Bill C-59, so that it is really clear on exactly what these things do or don't mean so they aren't left to law enforcement to interpret t

Public Safety committee  I believe there are a lot of very real threats to this country, and a lot of them are cyber-threats. I think the concern we are hearing from our community is that this really is a cyber arms race to try to figure out who can build the biggest and most destructive tools the fastes

Public Safety committee  I'm not certain what the powers are that CSE would use. I know that based on experts' reading of Bill C-59 and the proposed CSE act, those are the capabilities that are possible within the powers that are being given to CSE. I think that's the concern, that we might not be in a p

Public Safety committee  I think that Canada could and might and would take those actions if the context arose where they felt it were appropriate. These are really complicated political issues and I'm not pretending otherwise. I think that once you have those powers in a very opaque system where it's di

Public Safety committee  I would just add, one of the things that we've heard from our community is that the reports are really important and that that type of transparency is something critical to earn trust from those commissioners and those in positions of authority overseeing this, but that there's a

Public Safety committee  Yes, please.

Public Safety committee  I would say as a starting point, yes. I think it's critical to have additional authorization required for that type of information collection. I think there are a lot of concerns about in particular about collection by the CSE, how that impacts Canadians, and how their informatio

Public Safety committee  Good morning. My name is Laura Tribe, and I am the executive director of OpenMedia, a community-based organization committed to keeping the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. I'm here today with Tim McSorley of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, w

Information & Ethics committee  OpenMedia hasn't put forward a formal proposal on what we think the oversight mechanisms should look like. The reason I'm nodding is that the real challenge we've seen is that having these disparate systems of oversight means there are different standards and tests and rules, dep

Information & Ethics committee  Can I add a plus one to that? This really does exist in the bigger context of what's going on. I think it is really critical to have oversight over information sharing. The activities of each of those agencies is also something that.... What they do with that data once they have

Information & Ethics committee  We think the threshold of “undermines the security of Canada” leaves it open for a huge amount of interpretation. I know that there's a lot of talk about how things like protests and activism are excluded, but when you look at things.... In B.C., we're looking at pipeline protest

Information & Ethics committee  On the reciprocal nature, with regard to Canada being a net importer of information, we're dealing with, for starters, four other countries giving us information and our putting out just this one country's worth of information. Just by the very arrangement of the Five Eyes alone,

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I agree it's a huge concern, but there were very weak protections for Canadians' data that went cross-border to the U.S. in the first place. Some of the problems with that executive order actually have to do with data transmitted through the Internet that the NSA would inter