April 18, 2015
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APRIL 17, 2015- Holy sheeeeet
Bell
fined $1.3- million for violating
$
750 Million Bell Mobility Privacy
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MARCH 31 2014... WELL SHEEEEET
EDITORIAL-HALIFAX HERALD NOVA SCOTIA
Snoops winning their war on privacy
To summarize the state of personal privacy in Canada right now: it was bad before, it’s now worse than ever and it is well past time that people realized what is happ ening .
Canada, in common with governments across the Western world, is tossing away the work of generations and prized ideals of democratic rights, which were set up to protect citizens from overreaching by the state.
People fought for thos e rights, which are being undermined relentlessly by the shadowy agents of state security.
Borders have become no-rights zones where travellers fear to tread, lest they be dragged off somewhere for a truly intrusive search. Complainers risk being put on a no-fly list.
The other day at the Ottawa airport, a passenger complained, loudly, about the absurdly long and slow lineup for security. He was right and everyone in that line was frustrated. But we all stayed mute, for fear of raising the ire of officialdom. We were sheep.
And it’s not just borders. We’re not even safe at home.
Ottawa bureau chief Paul MacLeod reported last week on a Bell Canada database that sounds like a one-stop-shopping outlet for security services looking for information on Canadians.
Bell’s “Law Enforcement Database" is a customer information clearinghouse being tapped by police agents. Fifty times a day, 19,000 times a year, the Canada Border Services Agency obtains information from telecom providers. It doesn’t need a warrant and there’s no way for the public to find out what it’s after.
The government pays a dollar or two for each search, chump change for Bell but a tangible sign of the company’s co-operation.
The snoops can get your personal information without any notification, unless the matter is going to court. In that case, you are informed, which produces the illogical result of potentially guilty people being informed their privacy has been violated while the rest of us remain blithely unaw a re.
If you subscribe to the complacent view o f having “nothing to worry about if you’ve done nothing wrong," this should show you that the opposite can also be true.
Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and a recognized expert on digital privacy, raised a warning about the government’s casual use of telecom databases on his blog this week. The databases provide “ready access to subscriber information."
Worse, there is no clear evidence of any oversight. The companies, or at least Bell Canada, “provide such information tens of thousands of times every year without court oversight and perhaps without even internal oversight if access to a database is granted."
Geist describes this “pervasive warrantless disclosure" as “deeply troubling and . . . an abdication by telecom providers of their resp onsibility to safeguard the privacy of their subscribers."
The fact is, we don’t know what the state security organs are doing with the information. We only know they are getting it.
Meanwhile, the Harper government is pushing ahead with Bill C-13, which updates current laws on intercepting private communications, supposedly in part to protect kids from cyber-bullying. But there’s way more to the bill; cyber-bullying is just a sideshow.What C-13 really gets at is personal privacy. It provides blanket immunity for telecom providers in any court cases arising from activity on their networks. Traditionally, telecom companies would at least make a show of protecting subscriber information, there’s now an incentive for them to just roll over and produce the goods.
It really is a strange turn for the Harper Conservatives. This is the government that found the longform census to o intrusive and folded the Canadian Wheat Board because it offended on the freedom of farmers to sell their grain.
Yet it sees nothing wrong with these privacy-invading laws it keeps proposing.
Technology is changing the way we live and governments do have to keep pace. But lacking true oversight and therefore accountability, basic rights of Canadians will continue to be eroded.
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Accountability: Bell Aliant is
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When
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passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal
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stage the attack from what was secretly ...
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Bell
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www.theglobeandmail.com › Globe Investor
As the CRTC ratchets up its response to the widely loathed
practice of telemarketing, it has hit Bell Canada with a
record-setting $1.3-million penalty for calls that ...
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Bell faces $750M lawsuit over tracking of cellphone customer Internet
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by The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 16, 2015 6:45 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 17, 2015 at
11:30 am EDT
$
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www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/750-
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Mobility Privacy Breach Class ... A similar lawsuit was commenced in the
... 2015, Bell Canada announced the cancellation of the
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MARCH 31 2014... WELL SHEEEEET
EDITORIAL-HALIFAX HERALD NOVA SCOTIA
Snoops winning their war on privacy
To summarize the state of personal privacy in Canada right now: it was bad before, it’s now worse than ever and it is well past time that people realized what is happ ening .
Canada, in common with governments across the Western world, is tossing away the work of generations and prized ideals of democratic rights, which were set up to protect citizens from overreaching by the state.
People fought for thos e rights, which are being undermined relentlessly by the shadowy agents of state security.
Borders have become no-rights zones where travellers fear to tread, lest they be dragged off somewhere for a truly intrusive search. Complainers risk being put on a no-fly list.
The other day at the Ottawa airport, a passenger complained, loudly, about the absurdly long and slow lineup for security. He was right and everyone in that line was frustrated. But we all stayed mute, for fear of raising the ire of officialdom. We were sheep.
And it’s not just borders. We’re not even safe at home.
Ottawa bureau chief Paul MacLeod reported last week on a Bell Canada database that sounds like a one-stop-shopping outlet for security services looking for information on Canadians.
Bell’s “Law Enforcement Database" is a customer information clearinghouse being tapped by police agents. Fifty times a day, 19,000 times a year, the Canada Border Services Agency obtains information from telecom providers. It doesn’t need a warrant and there’s no way for the public to find out what it’s after.
The government pays a dollar or two for each search, chump change for Bell but a tangible sign of the company’s co-operation.
The snoops can get your personal information without any notification, unless the matter is going to court. In that case, you are informed, which produces the illogical result of potentially guilty people being informed their privacy has been violated while the rest of us remain blithely unaw a re.
If you subscribe to the complacent view o f having “nothing to worry about if you’ve done nothing wrong," this should show you that the opposite can also be true.
Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and a recognized expert on digital privacy, raised a warning about the government’s casual use of telecom databases on his blog this week. The databases provide “ready access to subscriber information."
Worse, there is no clear evidence of any oversight. The companies, or at least Bell Canada, “provide such information tens of thousands of times every year without court oversight and perhaps without even internal oversight if access to a database is granted."
Geist describes this “pervasive warrantless disclosure" as “deeply troubling and . . . an abdication by telecom providers of their resp onsibility to safeguard the privacy of their subscribers."
The fact is, we don’t know what the state security organs are doing with the information. We only know they are getting it.
Meanwhile, the Harper government is pushing ahead with Bill C-13, which updates current laws on intercepting private communications, supposedly in part to protect kids from cyber-bullying. But there’s way more to the bill; cyber-bullying is just a sideshow.What C-13 really gets at is personal privacy. It provides blanket immunity for telecom providers in any court cases arising from activity on their networks. Traditionally, telecom companies would at least make a show of protecting subscriber information, there’s now an incentive for them to just roll over and produce the goods.
It really is a strange turn for the Harper Conservatives. This is the government that found the longform census to o intrusive and folded the Canadian Wheat Board because it offended on the freedom of farmers to sell their grain.
Yet it sees nothing wrong with these privacy-invading laws it keeps proposing.
Technology is changing the way we live and governments do have to keep pace. But lacking true oversight and therefore accountability, basic rights of Canadians will continue to be eroded.
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ENOUGH 2 4WARD THE FOLLOWING- WHICH AM SHARING... PRIVACY AND SECURITY...
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At Bell Aliant, we know that our customers are the reason we are in
business. Our longstanding commitment to safeguarding your right to privacy is
the reason for our reputation as a leader in the protection of customer
privacy.
We place strict controls on the protection and use of personal
information within our systems and web sites and ensure that our employees are
trained to respect your privacy at all times.
The Bell Aliant Privacy Policy and the Bell Aliant Code of
Fair Information Practices spell out the commitments of Bell Aliant and the
rights of customers regarding personal information. They also comply fully with
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In addition to the Bell Aliant Privacy Policy, Bell Aliant may also be
subject to the requirements of applicable legislation, tariffs and regulations
and the orders of any court or other lawful authority.
Any time you or your organization does business with us, or with anyone
acting as an agent on our behalf, you are protected by the rights and
safeguards contained in the Policy and Code.
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To ensure our commitment to your privacy is upheld, we have developed a
formal privacy code setting out your rights and our obligations respecting the
treatment of your personal information by Bell Aliant. The Bell Aliant Code
of Fair Information Practices (the Code) complies with the requirements of
the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act as well
as the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of
Personal Information. (A summary of the principles underlying the Code is
included at the end of this privacy policy.) The Bell Aliant Customer Privacy
Policy (the Policy) that you are reading is intended as a less formal summary
of the approach of Bell Aliant to customer privacy, including the Bell
Aliant Code of Fair Information Practices.
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the behavior of our employees and agents acting on our behalf. All of our
employees who have access to personal information have been trained on the
handling of such information. New employees receive training on privacy as a
fundamental part of their initial company training.
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Personal information is information about an identifiable individual.
This includes information about your product and service subscriptions and
usage. Publicly available information, such as a public directory listing of
your name, address, telephone number, title and electronic address, is not
considered to be personal information.
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purposes:
to establish and
maintain responsible commercial relations with you and provide you with ongoing
service; to understand your
needs and eligibility for products & services; to recommend
particular products & services to meet your needs; to develop, enhance,
market or provide products and services; to manage and
develop Bell Aliant's business and operations, including personnel and
employment matters; and to meet legal and
regulatory requirements.
Calls received from or placed to customers may be recorded or monitored
for quality assurance. Any recordings would be used solely for ensuring quality
service by Bell Aliant representatives.
Your personal information will not be used for any other purpose without
your consent.
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party outside of Bell Aliant, there are certain limited circumstances, outlined
below, in which it is necessary to do so. When we do provide personal
information to third parties, we provide only that information that is required
in the circumstances. Information provided to third parties is used only for
the purpose stipulated and is subject to strict terms of confidentiality.
Employees of the companies to whom we may provide information must adhere to
our privacy standards. Third parties include
Personal information is usually stored and processed in Canada. However
in limited cases, personal information collected by Bell Aliant may be stored
or processed with service providers outside of Canada, and may therefore be
subject to the legal jurisdiction of these countries. These service providers
are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and
we do not authorize them to use or disclose personal information for their own
marketing or other purposes. The information is also protected with appropriate
security safeguards.
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We take all of the necessary precautions to ensure the safeguarding of
your information, whether it is stored electronically or in paper format. In
all cases, information is retained in secure facilities, protected from
unauthorized access and kept only as long as is reasonably required. For
example, our electronic files are backed up for redundancy, password protected
and accessible only by authorized employees, on a need-to-know basis.
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by this privacy policy. Although we endeavor to only link to sites with high
privacy standards, our privacy policy will no longer apply once you leave Bell
Aliant sites. We do not control these third party sites and are not responsible
for their availability, content, or delivery of service. Operators of linked
sites may collect your personal information, including information generated
through the use of cookies. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our
site and to read the privacy policies of those sites to learn how your
information may be collected, used, shared, and disclosed.
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During interaction with one of our Internet sites, we may use a browser
feature called a 'cookie' to collect information anonymously and track user
patterns on our web sites. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique
identification number that identifies your browser - but not you - to our
computers each time you visit one of our sites that uses cookies. Cookies tell
us which pages of our sites are visited and by how many people. This helps us
to enhance the on-line experience of visitors to our sites.
Unless you specifically advise us, we will not know who you are, even
though we may assign your computer a cookie. We cannot use cookies, by
themselves, to ascertain the individual identity of any site user, and we never
combine information gathered by a cookie with personally identifiable
information like your name, telephone number, or even your e-mail address
without your consent.
You will find that most major sites use cookies and most major browsers
are set up to accept them. You have control over cookies. You can modify your
browser preferences either to notify you when a cookie is received, or to
refuse to accept cookies. If you would like to browse Bell Aliant sites, you
may do so without accepting cookies. However, you should understand that if you
choose not to accept cookies, some sites may not function properly or optimally
and you will not be permitted to access certain secured sites. For example, if
you would like to browse Aliant.net you will be required to accept the cookies
that have been engineered to sustain session integrity and enhanced security
before proceeding.
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while you are surfing other websites, we recommend that you enable your browser
to notify you when it is receiving a cookie. This gives you the ability of
accepting or rejecting any cookie presented by the site you are visiting.
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interests of customers and the people they call. Information about the services
offered by Bell Aliant is available in the introductory pages of the telephone
directory, or by visiting www.BellAliant.net. Digital
wireless services such as Call Display will provide additional privacy for your
wireless calls.
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using one of several methods outlined on our website or by calling us at the number
shown on your bill. Our customer service representatives will assist you in
resolving the situation. Should you identify incorrect or outdated information
to us, we will make the necessary changes promptly.
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your personal information by Bell Aliant, you may address these concerns, in
writing, to the Bell Aliant Privacy Manager, who has overall responsibility
for the companies' compliance with this policy and applicable privacy
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HEADS UP CANADA- BELL ALIANT IS GOING 2 $$$U AND SELL UR PRIVACY INFORMATION.... HEADS UP..... LET'S EDWARD SNOWDEN THIS FOLKS...
Snowden says calls for reform prove intel leaks were justified
Source: Reuters - Sun, 3 Nov 2013 12:34 PM
Author: Reuters
Adds detail on reported Snowden job offer in Russia)
BERLIN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said calls for more oversight of government intelligence agencies showed he was justified in revealing the methods and targets of the U.S. secret service.
Snowden's leaks about the National Security Agency (NSA), from its alleged mass scanning of emails to the tapping of world leaders' phones, have infuriated U.S. allies and placed Washington on the defensive.
In "A Manifesto for the Truth" published in German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday, Snowden said current debates about mass surveillance in many countries showed his revelations were helping to bring about change.
"Instead of causing damage, the usefulness of the new public knowledge for society is now clear because reforms to politics, supervision and laws are being suggested," the 30-year-old ex-CIA employee and NSA contractor wrote.
"Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public. Those who speak the truth are not committing a crime."
Snowden is in Russia, where he has been given asylum for at least a year.
In an open letter to Germany last week, Snowden said he was counting on international support to stop Washington's 'persecution' of him.
His revelations about the reach and methods of the NSA, including the monitoring of vast volumes of Internet traffic and phone records, have angered U.S. allies from Germany to Brazil.
Admirers have called Snowden a human rights champion. Others say he is a traitor for stealing information from the NSA after vowing to respect its secrecy policies and then fleeing first to Hong Kong and then to Russia with classified U.S. data.
Snowden declined a job offer from Russia's top social networking site VKontakte (InTouch), local media quoted one of the company's founders, Pavel Durov, as saying over the weekend.
A Russian lawyer with close links to the authorities who is assisting Snowden, Anatoly Kucherena, had said this week the American would start work in November for a "large Russian (web)site" that he refused to name for security reasons.
In the manifesto published on Sunday, Snowden said mass surveillance was a global problem that needed global solutions and added that secret services' "criminal surveillance programmes" jeopardized individual privacy, freedom of opinion and open societies.
The existence of spying technology should not determine politics, he said: "We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit surveillance programmes and protect human rights".
Society, said Snowden, could only understand and keep a check on these problems via an open, ruthless and informed debate.
He said some governments that felt exposed by the revelations had at first launched a "persecution campaign" to repress debate by intimidating journalists and threatening them with prosecution.
"At that time the public was not in a position to judge the usefulness of these revelations. People trusted that their governments would make the right decisions," he said.
"Today we know that was a mistake and that such behaviour does not serve the public interest," he said. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow; editing by Tom Pfeiffer)
http://www.trust.org/item/20131103122216-ekyrh
comment:
Source: Reuters - Sun, 3 Nov 2013 12:34 PM
Author: Reuters
Adds detail on reported Snowden job offer in Russia)
BERLIN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said calls for more oversight of government intelligence agencies showed he was justified in revealing the methods and targets of the U.S. secret service.
Snowden's leaks about the National Security Agency (NSA), from its alleged mass scanning of emails to the tapping of world leaders' phones, have infuriated U.S. allies and placed Washington on the defensive.
In "A Manifesto for the Truth" published in German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday, Snowden said current debates about mass surveillance in many countries showed his revelations were helping to bring about change.
"Instead of causing damage, the usefulness of the new public knowledge for society is now clear because reforms to politics, supervision and laws are being suggested," the 30-year-old ex-CIA employee and NSA contractor wrote.
"Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public. Those who speak the truth are not committing a crime."
Snowden is in Russia, where he has been given asylum for at least a year.
In an open letter to Germany last week, Snowden said he was counting on international support to stop Washington's 'persecution' of him.
His revelations about the reach and methods of the NSA, including the monitoring of vast volumes of Internet traffic and phone records, have angered U.S. allies from Germany to Brazil.
Admirers have called Snowden a human rights champion. Others say he is a traitor for stealing information from the NSA after vowing to respect its secrecy policies and then fleeing first to Hong Kong and then to Russia with classified U.S. data.
Snowden declined a job offer from Russia's top social networking site VKontakte (InTouch), local media quoted one of the company's founders, Pavel Durov, as saying over the weekend.
A Russian lawyer with close links to the authorities who is assisting Snowden, Anatoly Kucherena, had said this week the American would start work in November for a "large Russian (web)site" that he refused to name for security reasons.
In the manifesto published on Sunday, Snowden said mass surveillance was a global problem that needed global solutions and added that secret services' "criminal surveillance programmes" jeopardized individual privacy, freedom of opinion and open societies.
The existence of spying technology should not determine politics, he said: "We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit surveillance programmes and protect human rights".
Society, said Snowden, could only understand and keep a check on these problems via an open, ruthless and informed debate.
He said some governments that felt exposed by the revelations had at first launched a "persecution campaign" to repress debate by intimidating journalists and threatening them with prosecution.
"At that time the public was not in a position to judge the usefulness of these revelations. People trusted that their governments would make the right decisions," he said.
"Today we know that was a mistake and that such behaviour does not serve the public interest," he said. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Moscow; editing by Tom Pfeiffer)
http://www.trust.org/item/20131103122216-ekyrh
comment:
just wish Snowden didn't have choose China and Russia- maybe we'll see him in Sochi Winter Olympics Paralympics 2014 Russia - mind u all these countries now 'bitchin little grls" (from Burn Notice)- could have taken a chance.... because THE WORLD NOW KNOWS- OVERT/COVERT R ACTUALLY THE SAME THING IN HARVESTING HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS!!!! ..imho
God bless our troops- land, sea and air- abroad and our homelands- they are all that keeps us sane and bloody well free - on this day our Nato troops are the most trusted people on this planet.....imho
CANADA: Bell eyes customers’ personal information
October
22, 2013 - 6:40pm
TORONTO
— Bell’s privacy policy has been updated to indicate that it plans to start
tracking customers and collect data on web and mobile usage, TV watching and
phone calling habits.
Bell
will start collecting customer data on Nov. 16, which it says will be used for
improving network performance, creating marketing reports and selling targeted
ads on mobile devices.
Websites
visited, search terms used, TV shows watched, calling patterns and mobile usage
will be collected and collated with what products and services customers pay
for, where they live, their gender and age range.
Bell
says the data it collects will not be linked with a customer’s identity. While
customers can opt out of having their data used for personalized advertising
and marketing reports, it appears they will be tracked regardless.
Bell
did not immediately respond to an interview request.
Michael
Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and the Canada Research
Chair in Internet and e-commerce law, said he’s shocked by the extent of the
“data grab” that Bell is preparing to undertake.
“What
Bell is able to aggregate, being as large as it is, is far more than any
individual Internet company, even a company as large as Google,” Geist said.
“When
you look at the kind of information that they say will now be used … these are
pieces of information that some companies have some of that data, but Bell is
in an almost unique position of having it all.
“It’s
a level of intrusiveness and monitoring that I think is truly unprecedented in
Canada. There’s nobody that’s as large and as all encompassing as Bell and
their capabilities from a customer surveillance perspective are similarly
impressive.”
Customers
can opt-out of having their data used by Bell at the following link: http://bit.ly/1bSRvvr
comment:
Substantial
changes to customer contract. Can a customer break their cell phone contract
with no penalty?
and
Rock on Edward Snowden...... Rock on...
edward snowden -safety zone
from one monster covert 2 others- China Russia overt - no difference is there.... everybody scans
VOICE
OF THE PEOPLE
Sound
privacy bell
I
have a call to action for Bell customers: Bell Canada’s recent announcement
that their privacy policy will be changed next month to permit the company to
sell data about their customers should be worrying to Canadians. In addition to
the privacy violation, Bell is taking your money.
We
all know, as Bell does, that data about ourselves and our habits when viewing
TV or surfing the Web are very valuable to advertisers. The value Google
extracts from such information from each customer each year is on the order of
$60. By selling data about customers, Bell is effectively raising the price of
service — now, each customer is paying money plus the value of the personal
data being collected. That sounds like a breach of contract to me.
Privacy
nihilism — thinking that privacy is dead, and irrevocably so —is a self-fulfilling
prophecy. If you value your privacy, you have to speak up. Bell has crossed a
line. Say so.
Mike
Doherty, CryptoPartyHFX privacy workshop
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Bell
to collect customer personal information for marketing, targeted ads
Customers
will have their web and TV history recorded unless they opt out
By:
Michael Oliveira The Canadian Press, Published on Tue Oct 22 2013
EXPLORE
THIS STORY
Bell
will soon start tracking how its customers use the web and their mobile
devices, what they watch on TV, and when they make phone calls.
According
to its recently updated privacy policy, Bell will begin collecting customer
data on Nov. 16. The company says the data will be used for improving network
performance, creating marketing reports and selling targeted ads on mobile
devices.
Websites
visited, search terms used, TV shows watched, calling patterns and mobile usage
will be collected and collated with what products and services customers pay
for, where they live, their gender and age range.
Bell
says the data it collects will not be linked with a customer’s identity. While
customers can opt out of having their data used for personalized advertising
and marketing reports, it appears they will be tracked regardless.
Bell
did not respond to an interview request.
A
spokesman for federal privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said her office
received several complaints from consumers about Bell’s new privacy policy and
an investigation will be launched.
Mobile
customers can opt-out of having their data used by Bell at the following link: http://bit.ly/1bSRvvr
liberty, freedom, honour of each person
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Sheeet happpens
HEY CANADA- LET'S NOT BE THE USA- 2013 Yes We Scan- 1st Amendment Censorship has occurred- free speech internet-censorship
2013 Edward Snowden has woken the free world 2 the fact overt- convertly r exactly the same- russia, china etc may be loud but ya know
and here's Canada's proof....
Digital
issues critic questions Bell's data collection
Bell
customers should contact their provider and complain, NDP MP says
CBC
News Posted: Oct 23, 2013 10:15 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 23, 2013 10:15 AM ET
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RUN
EDWARD RUN- YES WE SCAN- run Edward
run... if u come 2 Nova Scotia Canada- we'll help u -
BASICALLY
COVERT/OVERT ...is the same right???? When USA-Russia-China collide- they all
steal our data, identities -everything and anything imho... proving everyday folks r being watched
where ever we live in this ole world- thanks 2 internet - How can Europe,
Brazil, China, Russia, Iran etc. proclaim horror.... when they do it
'secretly'- come on folks... it's the real world.
Snowdon,
Off and Running
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THE
EDWARD SNOWDEN OF OUR TIMES..... CANADIANS WERE VICIOUS AND TIRED OF GOVERNMENT
TRAMPLING OVER OUR PRIVACY.... AND CANADIANS VOTED 2 DUMP THIS PARTICULAR TYPE
OF SURVEY THAT WAS INTRUSIVE AND HORRIBLY PERSONAL..... WHICH STATS CANADA IN
THEIR 'GLORY' SHARED WITH WHOMEVER AND WHENEVER.....
ANYONE
WHO'S TAKEN COURSES IN ADULT EDUCATION OR EDUCATION ESPECIALLY SURVEYS...KNOWS
HOW AND WHAT TYPES OF QUESTIONS THAT CAN BE FAIRLY ASKED 2 GET HONEST RESULTS
WITHOUT UR POLITICS OR PERSONAL LAUNDRY SPILLED ALL OVER THE PLACE...
RUN
EDWARD SNOWDEN RUN.... WE'VE GOT UR BACK BABY..... AND UNITED NATIONS CAN'T
EVEN SAVE OR CREATE EQUALITY 4 GIRLS AND WOMEN
(1 billion rising)..... seriously!!!!
Canada
has trouble counting its poor, highlighting a global problem with data
Source:
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:22 PM
Author:
Alia Dharssi
A
man begs for money on Sainte Catherine Street on a cold winter day in Montreal,
February 8, 2011. REUTERS/Shaun Best
TORONTO
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Like many of her colleagues across Canada,
Christina Maes Nino, an urban policy analyst in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is in a fog
when it comes to measuring poverty.
As
she works on a strategy to improve housing conditions in the city's
impoverished Centennial neighbourhood, where housing is largely rundown and
aging, she is missing key information about one of Canada’s poorest
communities. She doesn’t know whether the last housing strategy worked.
While
Canada is one of the world’s richest countries, a recent survey estimated that
15 percent of its people live in poverty – a problem that anti-poverty
activists and planners say is very hard to address without adequate data to
measure whether their development programmes are working. In fact, compiling
reliable statistics is a global problem that plagues development efforts, one
that a panel of experts highlighted recently when it recommended that the
United Nations include better data collection as a priority in its post-2015
development goals.
In
Canada, a change in the way it conducted the national census in 2011 has led to
huge data gaps that have blindsided urban planners and weakened Canada’s
ability to respond to what Miloon Kothari, the former UN Special Rapporteur on
the Right to Adequate Housing, described in 2007 as a “national housing crisis.”
Planners
across the country say they are concerned that without reliable numbers, the
needs of the poor will not be considered in policy decisions and that it will
be difficult to promote effective investments in poor communities. To make
matters worse, policymakers don’t have the data they need to measure how
effective previous policies have been.
“If
we don’t have good data about how that neighbourhood changes over time, then we
don’t know if anything the [housing] plan is putting down as a goal is being
achieved,” said Maes Nino.
Maes
Nino’s dilemma began in 2010, when the Canadian government acted on concerns
about privacy and scrapped mandatory questions related to poverty from its 2011
national census. Statistics Canada, which was once recognized internationally
for its data expertise, kept a mandatory short questionnaire of 10 questions in
the census. But the previously mandatory long-form questionnaire, which
included questions on income, housing and employment, was replaced with a
voluntary survey called the National Household Survey (NHS).
The
decision was controversial. Hundreds of organisations, ranging from church
groups to businesses, criticised the move, saying a voluntary survey would
provide less accurate information about the population. The government’s chief
statistician resigned.
Now
results from the 2011 survey are out. While it indicates that about 4.8 million
Canadians, or 15 per cent of the population, are poor, the published data
contains significant gaps. In some parts of Canada, so few people responded to
the survey that Statistics Canada, out of concern for data reliability, did not
publish numbers for 1,128 municipalities and several urban neighbourhoods.
“To
just frame it as a policy matter, I think, would be incorrect. This data is
important in order for people’s rights to be recognised and fulfilled,” said
Leilani Farha, the executive director of a non-profit advocacy group Canada
Without Poverty (CWP).
On
its website, CWP criticises the Canadian government for failing to act on
recommendations related to poverty reduction made during the UN Human Rights
Council’s 2013 review of Canada.
DATA
QUALITY
In
addition to data gaps, policy analysts and planners are concerned about data
reliability.
“We
don’t know if we’re adequately capturing the poverty story,” said Armine
Yalnizyan, the senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
She noted that research shows that poor people tend to respond to voluntary
surveys at low rates.
While
the response rate matters less for data at the national level, data at the
local level can be easily skewed if a survey isn’t filled out by a group that
is representative of a neighbourhood, said Richard Shearmur, a professor at the
McGill School of Urban Planning in Montreal, Quebec.
Planners
say there are limited alternate data sources, and none offer the same level of
detail as the census. This limits the ability of planners to respond to the
needs of poor communities.
Saint
John, New Brunswick, lacks data for 13 neighbourhoods, including three of the
city’s poorest, which makes it challenging to set policy.
“There’s
a large amount of sub-standard housing in Saint John. We know that just by
visual inspection, but ... there’s nothing like the rigour of data to help
influence policy change,” said Randall Hatfield, the executive director of the
local Human Development Council.
The
situation is made worse by Statistics Canada’s warning against comparing NHS
data for income with previous censuses because the methodology changed. This
makes it challenging for urban planners to track changes in poverty over time –
a process that helps them determine which policies are working and which ones
are not, said Damaris Rose, a professor of urban studies at Quebec’s National
Institute for Scientific Research.
With
or without the data, the planning continues.
“We’re
still going to do everything we can to reach a diverse proportion of people.
But we can’t say for sure that we’ve done a good job of that,” Maes Nino said.
Alia
Dharssi is a fellow in global journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs
at the University of Toronto and is interning at the Thomson Reuters Foundation
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COMMENT:
Oh for
Gods Sake, I worked for Big Daddy, Big Brother for 21 years. every one of those
"Offended Countries" provided us a base to do that from inside their
country to monitor their neighbors as long as we shared with them. Now their
feelings are hurt, LOL! That is a riot "Thou do protest too much".
Given
the NSA Is Wiretapping the Personal Phones of World Leaders, They Are Certainly
Spying on Us
MARC
PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
wiretap10
27It's so weird watching the news as the reporters blame leaker Edward Snowden
for the problems that Obama is happening because 35 other national leaders
don't want the United States spying on them. Snowed didn't do the spying. Obama
did! How is it Snowden's fault? All he did was tell us the Truth.
President
Obama, for example, was forced to call
Merkel and claim he new nothing about the wiretapping of her phone, even though
it was going on since 2002, according to the authoritative Der Spiegel. Another
report from a German publication claims that Obama not only knew about the
wiretapping and spying on Merkel, he approved it.
According
to CBS News,
In
an SCS document cited by the magazine, the agency said it had a "not
legally registered spying branch" in the U.S. embassy in Berlin, the
exposure of which would lead to "grave damage for the relations of the
United States to another government".
From
there, NSA and CIA staff tapped communication in the Berlin's government
district with high-tech surveillance.
Quoting
a secret document from 2010, Der Spiegel said such branches existed in about 80
locations around the world, including Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague, Geneva and
Frankfurt.
Other
revelations allege massive data mining on France, the wiretapping of at least
35 world leaders, ongoing wiretapping relating to industrial espionage and
political intelligence gathering by the US, major US government wiretapping on
"allies" such as Mexico, Brazil, and member nations of the European
Union beyond France and Germany.
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If
Snowden hadn't leaked what is happening at the NSA then it would have come out
eventually later. You just can't keep an illegal operation that big secret. So
are we better off that we know now rather than later? I think we are because
the Patriot Act is being used to undermine who we are as a country and turn us
into a banana republic where politicians break the law with impunity and hide
behind the claim of "national secrets" as a way to conceal criminal
activity that is more related to national and corporate espionage than fighting
terrorism. That is not the nation our forefathers created 250 years ago.
We are a nation who has lost its way and we
need to remember who we are and get back on the right side of history. The NSA
spying needs to be shut down or the rest of the world will shut us out, as they
should.
Note:
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of BuzzFlash at Truthout.
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