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This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 13th.
We’re back after a late-summer break, and while we were away, the news didn’t stop. In today’s review, we’ll cover major Canadian access-to-information and whistleblower stories, a worrying update on the Nova Scotia Power cyberattacks, and a hard-hitting Associated Press investigation into how American tech companies helped build China’s surveillance state.
Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, ListenNotes, Podchaser, Boomplay.
Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Canadian Access & Whistleblower Stories
- Documents released to Nova Scotia NDP show public housing wait-list up over 8,000
- Ford, transport minister make string of misleading claims as Highway 413 construction ‘begins’
- Springwater mayor calls Cabral’s boundary map questions ‘a personal attack’
- Integrity commissioner’s office struggling to keep up with complaints, disclosures
- Deep Blue Data: Canada’s G7 ambitions on AI and Oceans
- Citing U.S. loophole, NDP pitches tighter arms controls on Israel
Privacy Stories Across Canada
- New Brunswick elections agency says major challenges threaten free and fair voting
- 2025 BC Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform
- Code of conduct investigation launched into Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore
- Port Moody daycare project caught in courtroom clash over contracts, costs and defamation
- Federal government says emails, phone numbers accessed in cyberattack
- Impact of cyberattack on Nova Scotia Power could be bigger than first thought
Trump’s America
- Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let him fire member of Federal Trade Commission
- Chief justice lets Trump remove member of Federal Trade Commission for now
- Gregory Bovino, head of Los Angeles campaign, shows how immigration agents rack up arrests
- Justice Department talks about banning transgender gun owners spark fury across political spectrum
International Stories
- Google facing $425.7 million in damages for nearly a decade of improper smartphone snooping
- Australia’s highest court denies decorated Afghanistan veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s final appeal
- US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
- How the AP uncovered US big tech’s role in China’s digital police state
To Protect your rights, ask MPs to:
- Stop Bill C-2
- Amend Bill C-4
This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 13th.
We’re back after a late-summer break, and while we were away, the news didn’t stop. In today’s review, we’ll cover major Canadian access-to-information and whistleblower stories, a worrying update on the Nova Scotia Power cyberattacks, and a hard-hitting Associated Press investigation into how American tech companies helped build China’s surveillance state.
Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, ListenNotes, Podchaser, Boomplay.
Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca
You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.
Full Show Links
Canadian Access & Whistleblower Stories
- Documents released to Nova Scotia NDP show public housing wait-list up over 8,000
- Ford, transport minister make string of misleading claims as Highway 413 construction ‘begins’
- Springwater mayor calls Cabral’s boundary map questions ‘a personal attack’
- Integrity commissioner’s office struggling to keep up with complaints, disclosures
- Deep Blue Data: Canada’s G7 ambitions on AI and Oceans
- Citing U.S. loophole, NDP pitches tighter arms controls on Israel
Privacy Stories Across Canada
- New Brunswick elections agency says major challenges threaten free and fair voting
- 2025 BC Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform
- Code of conduct investigation launched into Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore
- Port Moody daycare project caught in courtroom clash over contracts, costs and defamation
- Federal government says emails, phone numbers accessed in cyberattack
- Impact of cyberattack on Nova Scotia Power could be bigger than first thought
Trump’s America
- Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let him fire member of Federal Trade Commission
- Chief justice lets Trump remove member of Federal Trade Commission for now
- Gregory Bovino, head of Los Angeles campaign, shows how immigration agents rack up arrests
- Justice Department talks about banning transgender gun owners spark fury across political spectrum
International Stories
- Google facing $425.7 million in damages for nearly a decade of improper smartphone snooping
- Australia’s highest court denies decorated Afghanistan veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s final appeal
- US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
- How the AP uncovered US big tech’s role in China’s digital police state
To Protect your rights, ask MPs to:
- Stop Bill C-2
- Amend Bill C-4