Monday, October 28, 2013

CANADA MILITARY NEWS Nov 2013: Bell Aliant Canada stealing r personal data- EDWARD SNOWDEN- ANONYMOUS- h...e...l...p - Cartoons of note -every government scans-UPDATES April 17, 2015- Holy Sheeeeeet look at Bell fines and being sued 4 $4millions

 April 18, 2015


FBI watched as hacker dumped Bell Canada passwords online

Ottawa Citizen - ‎22 hours ago‎
When Bell Canada's website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly ...

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APRIL 17, 2015-   Holy sheeeeet




Bell fined $1.3- million for violating do not call...

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 usage
by The Canadian Press
Posted Apr 16, 2015 6:45 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 17, 2015 at 11:30 am EDT


$ 750 Million Bell Mobility Privacy Breach Class Action...


www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/750-million-bell...   Cached
... 2015- $750 Million Bell 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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Privacy & Security

Privacy Policy
The Bell Aliant Commitment to Privacy
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 the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
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The Bell Aliant Privacy Policy applies to Bell Aliant Regional Communications, LP and its successors, assigns, divisions and subsidiaries.
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 Bell Aliant Code of Fair Information Practices also governs 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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Bell Aliant collects personal information only for the following 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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While our general policy is not to provide personal information to any 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
*       Another communications service provider, in order to offer efficient and effective communications services (e.g., to provide wireless service while roaming in another company's coverage area);
*       A collection agency , for the express purpose of the collection of past due bills;
*       Law enforcement agencies, in emergencies, for internal security matters, or where required by court order or search warrant; and
*       Emergency services, in emergency situations.
*       An agent acting on behalf of Bell Aliant, such as a company hired to perform installation or maintenance on our behalf or to conduct marketing or research activities to better understand your needs and develop, enhance, market or provide our products and services.
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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Our site contains links to other third party sites that are not governed 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.
If you are concerned about having your browser enabled to accept cookies 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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Bell Aliant offers a number of services to help balance the privacy 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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If you have questions or concerns about your privacy, you can contact us 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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If you still have unresolved concerns with respect to the treatment of 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 restrictions. You should write or email to:

The Privacy Manager
Bell Aliant
3rd Floor , Fort William Building
P.O. Box 2110
St. John's, NL A1C 5H6
PrivacyManager@bellaliant.ca
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If the Bell Aliant Privacy Manager does not resolve the issue to your satisfaction, you may file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada by writing to:


The Privacy Commissioner of Canada
112 Kent Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 1H3
Info@privcom.gc.ca
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Bell Aliant Code of Fair Information Practices
Summary of Principles
*       Accountability: Bell Aliant is responsible for personal customer information under our control and has designated the Bell Aliant Privacy Manager as accountable for compliance by Bell Aliant with the principles.
*       Identifying purposes for collection of customer information: Bell Aliant will identify the purposes for collecting personal information at or before the time the information is collected.
*       Obtaining consent for collection, use or disclosure of customer information: We require the knowledge and consent of the customer for the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information, except where inappropriate or impractical (e.g., in emergency situations).
*       Limiting collection of customer information: Bell Aliant will limit the collection of personal information - by fair and lawful means - to that which is necessary for the purposes identified by the Company.
*       Limiting use, disclosure and retention of customer information: Bell Aliant will not use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the customer or as required by law. The Company will retain personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill those purposes.
*       Accuracy of customer information: Personal information will be as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.
*       Security safeguards: Bell Aliant will protect personal information by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
*       Openness concerning policies and practices: Bell Aliant will make readily available to customers specific information about their policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
*       Customer access to customer information: Upon request, Bell Aliant will inform a customer of the existence, use, and disclosure of his or her personal information and will give access to that information. A customer may challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate.
*       Challenging compliance: A customer may address a challenge concerning compliance with the above principles to the Bell Aliant Privacy Manager.








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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)

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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


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Substantial changes to customer contract. Can a customer break their cell phone contract with no penalty?






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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
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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







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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.

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